I feel that what is important in life… is understanding. For understanding is life, not something divorced from it. If you merely look in a second-hand way — that is, according to accumulations and formulated systems/patterns that were handed down to you — then you likely will be far from being a mind that is truly alive and supple. What is truly alive and supple is not ever the result of rigid, traditional, habitual formulations. If you follow a rigid, fixed path… you might find comfort, but you will not be what directly perceives truth, and you likely will not be what discovers deep mystery. That deep mystery is too alive and unconstrained to be able to be touched by what is second-hand, premeditated, and stale. No dead, fabricated path can lead to (or hold) what is true and what is truly living.
Please read my new book, but please do not cling to it. People who cling to books, to systems, to traditions, to methodologies (in the realm of the psychological and spiritual) are often like flies that get stuck onto stagnant flypaper. They end up being embedded in the conclusions of others, and there they are forever stuck… not ever realizing, for themselves, what true freedom is. So please do not turn my book into something to cling to and to help one become “stuck” (to conclusions about life). Please use my book as a tool for questioning. Question yourself about how others may have indoctrinated you and molded you to become part of what is rigid, second-hand, and obsolete.
Please wisely go beyond my book and beyond me. I, Thomas Peace, am not what is important and I am not what you need to focus on. You are what is important… and you may be so much more than what the supposedly sophisticated intellectuals have told you what you are. Please go beyond what the cultural pundits have shoveled to you. Please share my book with others… not to get them to come to presumptions… not to affix more humdrum ideas into their minds — and, it seems, most all the orthodox ideas are rather “humdrum” — but to invite them to prudently question things for themselves. This questioning may help them to live peacefully and holistically beyond dead conceptualizations, and to fly free (from being secure in the wretched, flat flypaper of stale conclusions). Please learn, for yourself (and not merely from others) about soaring and flying in true freedom. Please do not remain embedded in the old, humdrum patterns that the languid status quo adheres to.
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In an indirect way, it may be like drinking directly from the Grail cup itself.
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(Applauding) Nail on the head man! A lot of people are prisoners in their own minds. I think everyone is to a degree, some more than others. And I like how you put it, “Don’t focus on me, look past me.” I couldn’t have said it any better. Meaning I share the same thoughts. I express views as merely an opinion and philosophy and would rather people look past me as well. It’s offering tools to open the mind and inspire, not the answer. 🙂
Great write! 😀
Yes, thanks, Pining 4 Grace! Yes, I feel that a lot of people are prisoners in their own minds… and they think that they’re free! To accept and be tethered to the confined, and think that you’re free… is a tragedy! Many narrow minds feel comfortable in the limited ignorance that they project, accept, and dwell in.
And… yes, none of us have all the answers. That is why we have to speak softly and carry a little stick! 😉