The Faux Pas Press #65

The Faux Pas Press #65

21 October 2010

By Jason Fresh

Atman is called by different names, but have you found out for yourself that you actually have a soul? “There is permanence,” you say, “families can be together forever.” As long as you rationalize your fear of death, creating innumerable beliefs about death, belief that says you will live forever. You seek pleasure to prolong it – demanding pleasure. Well, you will also get pain. What about joy? Would you rather cling to the known rather than the unknown - the fame, the gods you worship, the role in society, the marriage, the structure. There must be dying to yesterday. “I’m not afraid of dying,” is said when lips and tongue quiver with love of pleasure, the insanity ingrained in his conditioning which is not separate from the piety of his parents. You are bitter and you cherish things. But you must die to them, be completely empty to all the cherished. There is no security in relationships. Each one of us is seeking. “Reincarnation is, for sure, better than any idea of salvation. I’m a Buddhist so I don’t need religion. It isn’t, it isn’t a religion and it doesn’t give me wealth. You’ve got to know poverty.” How cherished the position in society, the fashionable religion when all others are out of fashion. In fashion, out of fashion! What about living with delight and enchantment? Doing this requires that you take a shit on possession. You can never really possess what you are afraid of. And, I’m saying, that you’ve got to possess yourself.