Ordinary Cannot Forgive Ordinary
/I am not here to turn you into a particular something; a Christian, Jew, or Buddhist, for to do so would stop your journey, and prove your death.
While ordinary life is involved in a gradual, mechanical growth, the Work is an abrupt break with lower level, Life-produced regions, and relatively independent of the old growth.
Once a man begins to See, he must be prepared to objectively embrace the ordinary appearances of Life, or else begin working for This as though tomorrow had already left the station.
The ordinary cannot forgive the ordinary; hence, men must look to gods and the dead for imagined relief. (The Alert might also note that mans’ nervous-system-I cannot and need not be forgiven for being what it is.) The notion to, “Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s” is, in part, the lesson of apparently agreeing with ordinary life's passing necessities. It is to give up silly struggles, square up useless debts, pay off the taxman-of-life.
I can't help but notice that some of the things I write for you cause laughter at times, in some, and in some, at times seem to cause a kind of fear. Wait, I've got it: Why don't the fearful laugh at the laughter and the laughing be fearful of the fear? No, let the fearful fear the laughter, and the laughing be fearful of the laughter...no, let the laughing fearful be mindful of...
ah, to hell with it. Ha Ha Ha.
J.