Confusion Abounds

Free Verse

This is the source of confusion: some say things are because they are caused by things that are. “Shut up and calculate, mathematics rules all” ¹ they say. Others say that what appears to be apparently is mind, whose nature is to lack any thing at all — mindless, so to speak in this rebounding vernacular. “Shut up and meditate,” they say. Still others say that all is one, a perfect whole, so nothing to do by no one. “Shut up,” they say.

Noticing the unending circularity in the causation of things that are, and seeing that a lack of something cannot a nature be, nor can saying there is no need for speech, be anything but senseless, I rest in what is, what appears to be — because there is only Now, which having no quantity, not even one, cannot be calculated, caused, or described, and is wholly present, noticed or not, named or unknown — and “I” dissolve. Not a thing to meditate on, noticing that is bliss. Learning the trick of being, not appearing to be, holding the view preciously, is absolutely free.

How can this be self when there is no other? Solipsism?!? Don’t play these mind games! A greater Self is a greater error. Appearing to be present is the veil of ignorance… since appearances are deceiving in what they appear to be, notice they appear to be present. But like a shadow form thrown upon Plato’s wall, Now, the light of presence, presenting wittingly as everything in all — spontaneous and creatively; like, but never is, anything at all — is true freedom.

It doesn’t matter… not at all. Why search for it in things that appear to be? Truth is not in appearances, yet their hint is the true path to all. Listen to the soundtrack, as the uni-verse is sung, for that alone will lead you to the unveiling of how it’s done.

Footnote:

¹ N. David Mermin, who was a solid-state physicist at Cornell University, was known for his now often-quoted line, “Shut up and calculate!”