Treading the edge between Order and Chaos, the 3 Rs reside in Order, there to offer a frame to live a Life ... well the first two do anyway, Ritual begins to help us approach the numinous, the mysterious beauty of Chaos and too often settles into form, losing its point along the way ... sometimes called organised religion. .. words, of course, have a Power of their own, and Chaos, the word, is rarely used in English as a good thing ... the English language being a highly evolved structure to explain and call into form all sorts of wonders ... its ubiquity evidence of its power, not to mention the serious limitations it imposes on lazy native speakers ... since the language(s) we employ to experience the world(s) determine our perceptions of it/them ... form is everything to a culture conditioned to measure the parts as if the world(s) were nothing except the sums of the parts .... chaos may also stand for the zero point field, the infinite sea of energy, awaiting the calling into form of the inherent potential ... the unfolding of the Implicate Order pointed to by David Bohm ... perhaps ... meanwhile, languages lure us into thinking in bits when it promotes nouns over verbs and ends sentences with full stops ...
Routines are helpful to create some seemingly solid ground from which to operate, especially when they are self-imposed and occasionally broken ... Camino routine is very simple: rise early, walk, rest, eat, write a little, walk, find a bed, sleep ... and process ideas as and when the opportunity arises, which is mostly in the albergues. ...
Rules are trickier, implying something fixed, eternal, outwardly imposed ... possibly created to stave off chaos, as if that might be a good thing ... or even possible ... which means a book so full of insight, embracing the Tao, nodding to the limits of thought, as The 12 Rules for Life, along with its equally paradoxical subtitle: An Antidote to Chaos, had the front page created tongue in cheek to say the least ... though Jordan Peterson is unlikely to say the least, when another anecdote from his life experience or learned reference from ancient wisdom and mythology is available ...
These Tavira days struggle for routine, as dorm life has its own constraints ... walking for its own sake and as training for coming Caminos, fits the bill ... the circuit to Barril and back along the beach, yesterday to Fuseta, lunch at Green Spirit vegetarian restaurant, train back, today train to Vila Real lunch at Green Buddha there, walk back to Casela for train .... Green Buddha rather trendy, healthy eating focus, light pop on the sound system, chicken on the menu ... Buddha being rather in vogue these days, and why not? The serene smile conveys contentment, suffering having ceased ... who wouldn't wish for that?
Teeth tomorrow ... maybe some sunning and swimming before that ... this afternoon's late running train leads to thoughts of Faro tomorrow evening, since connection times for Coimbra 7 am departure are very tight ... not to mention very early train from Tavira ... let's see !
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