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Cassie
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Date Posted: 20:37:04 02/19/01 Mon
In reply to:
Ben
's message, "Re: Making sense of things" on 12:04:39 02/19/01 Mon
So what we seem to be saying here is that life has been discovered to be a mystery, an unfolding of we know not what and that for some of us it is difficult and painful to remain in this flux, this unknowing, this mystery.
And I wonder if sometimes we try to make even the uncertainty into something familiar, by putting it into a category called "the mystery" where we don’t have to feel the terror of it anymore. Let us be aware of that possibility too.
The basic uncertainty, the underlying insecurity, the no bottomness of life must be felt with all of one’s being and not compromised, not categorized and not boxed. It simply is and we dwell in it like a caveman in the midst of a swirling city. Bewildered and bereft, cut loose from all we thought we knew, here we are, just being here as best we can.
The mind, meanwhile, frantic in the uncertainty of it all, goes round and round like an eternal searchlight, looking for confirmation of its old beliefs, looking for patterns and consistencies, looking for anything it can stand on and not feel the dizziness of not knowing. Oh how difficult it is to be here. And how... painful, as Jyoti has been known to say.
And then again, I might be all wet. Maybe it does all makes sense sometime, some when, somewhere. We don't know that either. Aaaaaagggghhhh!
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