Riffin' On Bewilderment as a Modality of Lucidity

“Arjuna said: O Madhusudana, the system of yoga which You have summarized appears impractical and unendurable to me, for the mind is restless and unsteady.” 6.33 Bhagavad Gita Dhyana-yoga

                Ultimately, while the spiritual path asks deliberation, method, even, of us, how it goes about yielding such wisdom is usually by way of utter bewilderment/total exposure…to experience. When Krishna reveals his universal form to Arjuna, it terrifies him into a devotional state, and, when it is all said and done, out of the very ramifications of mortality (allowing him to meaningfully leave fear behind forevermore…executed in an instant, perhaps not glimpsed until some time after the fact…). To the acute mind which develops, rather naturally, from normal socialization as we come of age in our various societies, what the spiritual mission, which ultimately is the  only mission, the meaning of life, the very explanation as to why we, specifically, as individuals are here, asks of us is of a nature that it really wallops us. We were coached, staunchly, and chaperoned as we cultivated our respective personal identities in youth & emerging adult hood, and it’s as if those very same cats return and hit us hard precisely in the structural weak-spots they intentionally built into the thing…all sorts of expectations we were coached to have, all sorts of thoughts that weren’t really our own that perhaps we tried out in an experimental fashion…they’re revealed to have been land-mines. We are bewildered by what is asked of us, ultimately, and feel that it’s impossible to achieve (it would take Jesus-level efficacy, and if you really get into the fine mechanics of it all, it actually does ask you to have Jesus-level efficacy, so the sense that it's overwhelming is incredibly honest)…we feel it might even be distasteful to ask, unhealthy to attempt to do, that it’s actually a form of madness/eating disorder…unconditional love in action.

                 Because we are never, ever to hurt, and we can’t condone suffering, and need to use our intellect to remove it wherever it does emerge. All of that being said, every human is susceptible to the potential to suffer at all moments and most of us do in a plethora of ways across our days, and this will never go away. As an institution, it serves some sort of purpose, and the most honest thing that could  be said of it is that it’s an absolutely integral aspect of the cultivation of sainthood…of genuine, freaky-levels of godliness. We are to be bewildered. We are to be made a mockery of, as we tend to rarely think it, but we are absolutely uncontainable/infinite, and can tap into as much willfully.  The problems of the world start at the level of individuated beings and end when those beings recognize a subtext of oneness that is the foundation of all effects regarded as miraculous.

                 What we are here to do is insane…by most people’s standards. These people, according to the analysts…are arguably the furthest amongst us…from sanity. This is how life actually works. Opposites in close conjunction, making a mockery of anything too big or too small… and what you need to know is that there hardly is any real illness out there in the world, just different resolving modalities of bliss. It’s time to cut through it with wisdom, and bring all of the various hanging processes to a resolve. It’s time to do something inherently insane/bewildering/not of the plan in action at the moment…it’s time to bring everything effectively into a peaceful resolve along the lines of the prospects of love. Salvation flies in the face of the sensibility that has loudly equated itself with the spiritual, and is anything but. The spiritual contain the multitudes within them, and are enigmatic more than they fit the mold/stereotype. Things are not wrapping themselves into boxes but, instead, bursting, unexpected, out of cakes… and it’s the listening which will orient, not the knowing.

Mutations are the driving force behind evolution…