Why Wait?

I was trodding down the stairs to the gym yesterday doing my best to remain alive and chipper without even contemplating the labor I was in for when I had a bit of a flash.

My thought was don't wait. That's it.

And pretty standard self-help fare, although, as I'm no self-help guru (at least never admittedly), I can't just leave it at that.

Because.

Our task is not only to not wait when we want to do something, but to not wait when we want to do nothing. AND when we want to wait.

This is the stuff that Oprah's guests never get to. Even the more esoteric and likely more formidable consciousness experts. Because as soon as you remove your foundation, your dogma, you cease to become an expert and start becoming the fool. The child. An artist. "The truth is a pathless land" -- Krishnamurti said that. He got part the way out but our good friends money and sex seemed to trip him up. And he spent the last years of his life battling the man who had faithfully handled his business affairs while he (Krishnamurti) has been sleeping with his (manager's) wife.

But he was right about the pathless land. And we are 3-D. Which means that anything I say will be wrong--guaranteed--for you if you try to apply it to your life. And it can't be written down--or taught completely. And why gurus are a serious mixed bag (and why everyone who's name we remember has usually sat under one for a while and then broken seriously with them).

So why communicate at all? (And where are the gurus who believe so firmly in the source and so casually in their own authority that they understand and preach that you're already saved--and come to you for a workshop/ashram-like experience!?)

Because everything I say is also never wrong--for you--when understood by your self. In your true perspective. (That would be what you came to later, after reading my book and seeing me on PBS and trying with great intent to not wait for a couple months--that you shouldn't wait to wait either.)

So say anything you want. And you'll get a better understanding of what it is you want to say.

There are things we really want and really don't want. And it is possible to live much more in the former without feeling guilty or bad about any of the latter. Because that's what keeps us on our toes. And alive. And humble.

Being grateful about that which we dislike takes some serious practice but it's fun. And why get bent out of shape by anything we don't want to love?

If life is a constant prayer--and a creative one at that (meaning that we create what we pray for), then focussing on what we love is what will get us more love. Hard to believe that we can just drop the bad stuff, and certainly not what we're taught, but hey, no one ever said this is supposed to be hard. (Although running from it is likely just as bad as dwelling on it.)

Karate means open hands.

And--before I become a self-help guru by writing blogs and indulging in criticism and being one who knows--I'm out to call my brother, get my money together and make some killer beats. I guess some day my blog will die off altogether. Or maybe I'll just record what I'm working on and put the process of recording. Keep on being lovely!----