The Faux Pas Press #160: Living Breathing Fury

The Faux Pas Press #160

Living Breathing Fury

By Chambo Fresh

Listening to the hungry vibrations of your bowels leads to some dark places. But, as I've previously stated, there are always paths to a win here in this experience. Most of these paths have to do with the humble and righteous act of listening - an art form really. So that we can see fears for what they really are. We can also see our opponents for who they really are, perhaps they are the Sorcerers of the Outer Darkness - where our bowels normally take us, to abysmal pits of fear. And we find in ourselves disturbing images of our demise. But from this art of seeing and learning to give perspective to all loss, we can stand with arms raised to the Sun. This clarity, after a while, can be communicated verbally. Without this eternal perspective, this real clarity, our skill in whatever action breeds self-importance - whether this self-importance is identified within ones self or collectively or even on a national level. The real, living, breathing fury of the matter is that this self-importance denies clarity. The real, living, breathing fury of the matter is that with self-importance, which we often confuse as self-confidence, breaks down the very nature of who we are at the core.

Furthermore, you can not have clarity with out compassion. Now, I'm not talking about unhealthy emotional co-dependency masquerading around like compassion. Or spiritual self-importance pretending to be charitable. I'm talking about the willingness to listen, really, without any agenda. Without compassion, our skills have become more important than anything else. Survival of the fittest excusing all of our inhuman and self-serving actions.

Also, this immaculate perspective, clarity, can not dwell in the presence of fear. Most of us, including myself, live with a great deal of fear most days. This, as most spiritual masters of the past have told us, denies true compassion. Do you see the quagmire in which humanity finds itself? A fear in any form excuses all the clarity we borrow from the divine source. There is this looming physiological fear which pretends to be living, breathing fury. The same applies to psychological fear.

Therefore, a person who is afraid in any way has no compassion. Can we go down, honestly, the list of our fears? The fear of growing old, or of loss, we've got these huge fears of not being successful, the fear of others, the fear of being found out. Will they find out what a fraud you are? Fear doesn't need a pretty little decorated invitation. It is there. See it - with true, living, breathing fury.

So, you can look at fear now. It is there simply because you are a living, breathing, furious human being. It is there both consciously and unconsciously. Look at them with living, breathing fury and you will never ever lose. In this state, you will say, "Yes. I  am afraid of losing. I am afraid of looking like the Fool. (Which is right where we start and right where we finish.) I am afraid of handing over my dignity to people who do not appreciate it. I am afraid of not measuring up." If you can listen, if you can see with clarity these items - you can handle this thing. I'm sure of it.