Riffin’ on Rolling in Mud

“O chief of the Bharatas, know that whatever you see in existence, both the moving and the nonmoving, is only a combination of the field of activities and the knower of the field.” 13.27 Bhagavad Gita Nature, the Enjoyer and Consciousness

Joy…joy comes natural.  It’s how we conceive of its mechanics which determine whether it runs such a course in our lives, natural. Often times, like a gem or a treasure, condensed, pressure-cooked for eons while concealed in the living Earth, its regarded as the most peculiar of situations, joy, and in becoming a sort of yet regarded true north, sets course for chaos, questioning the very underpinnings of the normative-cultural life. All the while, it’s possibly enough to simply roll in that living earth…   

Resonance regarding excellence, subject or object, is merely devotion, singularity manifest. “Whatever” we “see in existence”, “both” the “moving” (subject) and the “nonmoving”, we are told is “only”  a “combination of” “the field of activities”, and “the knower of the field”. Transcendental wisdom teaches that joy is the natural effect of understanding the function of all relationships, particularly that between a person and the external world, is to establish, by habitual living patterns (karma), a meaningful resonance between all…a singular identity (Nature) that ensures the championing prospects of life, itself/the egos of living creatures (comfort). An experience of joy also does as much, as today’s passage elucidates, but it also does so in a fashion that is far more bipolar/inclined to inflect towards suffering and tough lessons than…presented wisdom (three cheers for Vedanta/op-eds!!!).

Whatever is being done…and whoever is doing it…it needs to be of the quality that it is not only harmonious but effectively tends to life the way that linear causality (karma) generally seems to…in the midst of all of this pronounced human suffering. Karma is dense like that man…it only allows for the creation of more karma… and that actually isn’t bad because it’s naturally inclined towards evolution/progression…to the tune of eventual liberation. They weren’t teaching that when I started, that’s like my hot take as a young Western Buddhist…it always liberates. They were lying about the difficulty of Samsara.

My hot take is that its all Karma. They talked about escaping it, yet their great heroes come back as Deities or reincarnate and stuff… even spirits have karma, and are in dialogue with the karma of the living…there is no separation between the living and the dead, this realm and the next, it all was a delusion, etc.

Through a hilarious lens, this is why people are dysfunctional, at the level of universal mechanics. They have a worldview/self…they are barraged by some insane series of phenomena day in and out by way of media and the such (gotta love the digital age)… there is not resonance between the field of activities and the knower of the field, the person questions deeply whether the world is sane or whether they are falling off. Both are hopelessly true, but once somebody starts fixating on things like “transcendent principles” not only can an accord be reached, somehow the dysfunction both inside AND outside end. The tonalities shift. The media is a troll.

This isn’t the “new age”…this is terse, good ol’ fashioned 20th century survival…