Tuesday again

For a retired person with a simple life, the week since the last post has been full of most interesting people and events, some of which may be recalled to round up the second week of October 2021, for future reference in case memory fades due to the inevitable advance of decrepitude and eventual bodily death. Funnily enough, as linear time adds days and weeks, months and years, any lingering fears are absent, since the blessings of 70 years well lived are fondly recalled and selective memory has processed the crap times as stories to learn from, not traumas from which to suffer every night as if still real.

Yesterday was said to be a date in time of numerological significance if you believe in such stories, dear readers, and my sceptical mind still questions everything, since the Nature of Reality here and now at Wear and Dao, as apparently lived by an apparently real sentient human being, with an individual and egoic structure chattering on remembering times past, anticipating future possibilities,  whilst trying to focus on each precious ,moment. .. having seen the liberating teaching that small self is fundamentally false, is true.

Last week, a friend arrived to stay on Retreat, which has been a delight, whilst another friend visited just before and offered a brief break on the coast for a change of scene. Since she is a serious artist and Buddhist, who also has discovered no self, as taught by Gautama 2.5 millennia ago in India, the stay was fascinating and the small house in which she lives is decorated by images she painted of Buddha, Sufis, and all sorts and continues to do in the back yard. The Retreat guest, meanwhile has also realised no self a while back, all of which creates an interesting mix of humans deploying their egos in order to offer roles for the stories and games humans play in the dance of Lila, which goes on and on as the humans try to learn their lessons from the Life School in which we live, time after time ... assuming ongoing consciousness, which is still an open question, of course!

Daily events get crazier, as synchrocities abound and every coincidence is examined carefully for significance ... hopefully not confused with confirmation bias, but hey! if we want to skip the suffering stage, as Buddhists may, then play roles offering equanimity and contentment, whilst staying curious and enjoying the company of fellow travellers on the spiritual path, the pathless path to Nirvana ... which it is said is beyond bliss or any words, stories, games, plays on stages, or any metaphysical,  metaphorical mystery you choose. ..

One day, who knows, all will be revealed; meanwhile, dear readers, Dawn is close by and legs are itching to stretch themselves because they still work quite well, in conjunction with all the other bodily parts, operating as if separate with a computer called a brain in the skull, storing all the worries, fleeting thoughts, terrors, traumas, joys, sorrows ... hmm or maybe the radio transmitter receiver seen by Tesla, the mystic ... explaining non-local fields, expanding universes, dimensions beyond 3 and 4, even 5 arriving now as the long awaited Age of Aquarius transforms the lives of the humans choosing Freedom from Samsara ... why not!?