September 11, 2006
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contrast often defines us
I am……
All the rest
As real as it seems …
Is but a dream
What is the relationship between
anxiety and laughter?
Anxiety and laughter can be seen as qualities of the same phenomenon
perceived from different points of view.
Have you not experienced
shudders of horror and
shudders of delight?
Have you shed tears of joy…and tears of grief?
Is it not the same shudders and the same tears!
But with completely different meaning?
Interpretations come from our perspective
How we experience our own existence is always a choice…
Well now …
Life is vibration
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Life is the collective experience of such oscillations
that gives us sensations of feelings
the whole time and all the way through….
The question is …
your choice is
how are you going to interpret that?
How do you experience your own existence?
Is it
tremble
tremble
tremble?
Or is it laugh laugh laugh?
Are you not free to decide?
For sometime it is one
and sometimes it is the other
but if it seems that there is
no way outta here?
That there are no answers to be found..
Then you are right!
.. when you look out you don’t see in ..
Are You not free to decide?
Do you not laugh best?
When the anxiety interpretation of experience
suddenly opens up and your perspective changes in an instant
from one of temporality to presence?
and transforms to the laughter interpretation…
In just such a way… A satori…
suddenly you see that after all this anxiety you have been worried about
You see.. in a moment of presence you have nothing to worry about…
You see .. all of your thoughts in a moment of clarity .. were misgiven
Or are you “in” for good? .. stuck in psychological time
And You can’t admit it because …
You have a serious case of Spiritual Pride..
You might as well try to buy a stair way to heaven
Sensations have no meaning
save that which we chose to give them…
If you give them …. No thought… No judgment .. no expectation
You are suddenly .. momentarily …. free .. of the Maya… alive.
Be confused …
be disturbed …
and then kick it out…
and begin to experience the wonder that is the presence of be-ing
There is still time to change the road you are on
and
The winds are calling you to join in…
Shine on you crazy diamonds
Comments (16)
I don’t know the answer to this but they are related. Judi
who is this person that is deciding?
That was some good therapy, man.
“who is this person that is deciding?”
you? or was that a rhetorical question? hmmm. Hmmmmmmmmmmm.
:spinning:
anxiety is irrational fear
laughter is overwealming joy
both are physically manifested in your body… due to the power of the mind.
they are polar opposites but they are similar in the fact that at that moment they are uncontrollable. they hit you before you realize it.
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut
YOU shine on, you crazy diamond~~ :sunny:
In a moment of clarity~~yes~~spirit shine~
Blessings, my Friend, Dosmangoes~
I love it. In the Lakota tradition, the Heyoka are considered sacred clowns and provide a very important kind of “medicine”. Got this from wikidpedia:
“Principally, the Heyoka functions both as a mirror and a teacher, using extreme behaviors to mirror others, thereby forcing them to examine their own doubts, fears, hatreds, and weaknesses. Heyokas also have the power to heal emotional pain; such power comes from the experience of shame–they sing of shameful events in their lives, beg for food, and live as clowns. They provoke laughter in distressing situations of despair and provoke fear and chaos when people feel complacent and overly secure, to keep them from taking themselves too seriously or believing they are more powerful than they are.”
……I am grateful for the “heyokas” in my life who keep me from taking myself too seriously…there’s not a lot of room for ego (which is the driving force whenever I’m feeling fear or anxiety) when I’m laughing at myself and what’s going on around me….
(pssst – always burn down the monastery hehe). Although I don’t know quite enough about his thought to comment, I am enamoured by what little I know of Nietzsche’s ‘Amor Fati’ concept. We experience life in such a way that no matter what happens, it resulted in us being where we are at this moment, so if given the choice, no matter how painful, we would always choose to repeat the experiences exactly as they happened.
Thank you for the temporary return of the underwater mammal. In some ways, his perpetual smile is more affirming than your “yes” always was in the past. Shame he’s “caught in the crossfire, of xangas and llamas…”
ya know its damn hard to put him a peace rally…
the concrete chaffes his skin
:spinning:
Sometimes, I don’t know if I’ve forgotten how to shine or if I ever knew how at all.
once again I find no quick comment at the ready… I will come back after i have thought on this a little:)
I laugh like crazy when I’m stressed! My meg tooth is up. Show me, show me, show me!!!!! I want to see yours!
I adore this post… the vibration ..yes…an perception a series of strings that resound…. love it thank you
awww…i can’t take credit for the pic…i took it off the site i bought it from :p
OK I think I pretty much choose,and that when I can I would rather laugh…truth is pretty weird,or can be till you amuse it. I suppose I still think its cool that we only know enough to know theres a lot we do not know.