The Mantra Of A Fat Man
I think it is possible to live your whole life and not realize that the life you have just lived has been based on an ‘hallucination’. The events and the pain and the memories all seem very ‘real’ and are made up!
On the youth programme I am involved with, we spend at least 10 weeks chanting a mantra, ‘the future does not exist’ we shout. Bounding into the room I jump, sometimes rolling on the ground and ending on all fours, and ask where is the future?
When it is tomorrow I am giving away £5 notes from this blog!
Life only happens in a moment called now, yet the mind, you remember the conversation(?) is trapped in a temporal framework that clamours for our attention constantly; ‘when I earn enough money, I will do the things that healthy people do, then i will be fit and healthy’, as the the mantra of a fat man goes.
But, where is WHEN?
‘Getting’, (like balance) the futureness of ‘when’ in my ‘conversation’ wakes me up. There is no future place to get to, this ‘is’ all there ‘is’, it’s not about getting anywhere or doing anything it is about ‘being’ HERE, Now. It is not about what I am ‘doing’ as much as it is about who I am ‘being’.
July 18th, 2007 08:38
Hi Mark, Wow, your blog is going well. Can you put an RSS feed on it so I can link to it and get notice of posts please?
Sending you my dad blog got me reading it again and for the past couple of days I have been really missing him - talk about putting yourself in a state! Funny, but he used to make predictions about how well I would do with new challenges and I always believed them. It was like he spoke to my unconscious. As I am now struggling to get the new business up and running I feel desperate to hear him say ‘Of course you can do it’. Not sure why him saying it worked so much better than me saying it, to me! A useful hallucination that he could predict the future? Oh well. Keep repeating my Anthony Robbins mantra - “How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I’m committed to?” and realising that there is only today, and in each day I need to focus on what I want, now and that will create the future.