Let's Get Metaphysical

...too caught up, generally, trying to find life before death to worry that much about what’s likely to happen after...or before...though reincarnation seems like a fascinating metaphor...if difficult to say what precisely it’s supposed to represent...then, as with all the good ones, that’s exactly what makes it interesting...


...if you can clearly understand a metaphor, it’s probably not a very good one...
Yoga Cynic Sutra 504:91

...perhaps better if imagined in a less linear way...a wheel more stationary than mobile...actors exchanging parts on an infinite grid rather than moving forward or back...progressing or regressing...so that everybody gets...or has...to be everybody...experiences everything possible to be experienced...me becoming you, you becoming me...and those people over there...rock stars and supermodels...junkies and prostitutes...emperors and slaves...abstainers and addicts...victims and perpetrators...ultimately, everybody...and everybody, ultimately, you and me...receiving, for every kiss or kick that’s given, not some vague moral equivalent, but that very kiss or kick itself...ignoring another’s pain impossible, since, sooner or later, it’s mine, and yours...love held back never received...all hatred, self-hatred...all murder, suicide...all violence, self-inflicted...all sex, masturbation...no point to envy, or to take pride in possessions, because everything, eventually, is mine and yours, and, eventually, lost to us...not in a moral, mystical, or karmic order, but an impossibly elaborate yet unfathomably simple dance...and looking at one another no different than gazing blindly into a mirror...


...never underestimate the potential of liars and fools...
Yoga Cynic Sutra 446:87

...like most people, I’m often afraid to say I don’t know...usually out of a fear of being thought ignorant...the irony of which, of course, is that it may be the one of the few truly intelligent things I’ve ever said...