After yesterday's meander around various frames of reference, ways of seeing limited by the frame, enlarging the frame, choosing to frame a particular tiny part of the Whole to focus upon to serve a particular power paradigm to the exclusion of other views and all that nonsense, perhaps it's time to confess that this old blogger having framed the world in Marxism, Buddhism and other isms, is ready to cast aside the frames and explore the frameless ... or to use a more helpful word or words, remove the security of form and risk the formless ...
Unpacking this discourse a little, with examples: Let's say the Marxist-Leninist Party once followed in London, led by intellectuals insisting on atheism, given working class credentials by entryists whose parents had worked hard to rise up the ladder only to be slightly disappointed by their errant second son, third child of four, declaring his mission to smash capitalism through revolution, becoming a bus driver then Trade Union local leader en route to overthrowing the State ... led to a deluded frame of a world divided by them and us ... them being the nasty capitalists and us the heroic and very small Party (Trots, Revisionists, Labour Party reformists and other ists being excluded from the frame, except as cannon fodder) ... incidentally there were some cracks inherent in the frame such as lack of a sense of humour and the obvious philosophical contradictions viz the insistence on atheism in a scientific world view (agnosticism would work) plus the futility of espousing violence in search for world peace (like fornicating for virginity) ...
Anyway, that was then, this is now, the frame grew bigger, with the good bits of Marx incorporated and Buddhism included ... mainly due to Philosophy and Psychology plus magic but not organised Religion ... another error causing all sorts of problems in this world, though opening up the potential for other worlds ... which was and is liberating ...
Frames, meanwhile, offer fellowship, an important part of being human, though in the end, though not ultimately; form itself blocks clear seeing and is discarded, to see if freedom may fly without preconceptions, scaffolding, fellowship and all those safe support systems ... accepting solitude cheerfully the price to pay ... and solitude, of course, is known to release the suffering caused by ego ... not that ego is not needed to continue engaging with the humans, it is ... just that beyond ego we all may be more than human, not less ...
Clear enough?!
Meanwhile, this morning's walk unearthed a new dog and its human, a young woman staying in the property recently acquired by her family. .. the capacious house restored to serve for large groups, indeed APtB was first to hire it several years ago ... her life plans include a wish to shift from London permanently and create some kind of Retreat somewhere near here, maybe the Lake District or maybe ... let's see!
Relax, allow it to unfold, embrace magic ... hmm
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