Jesters in the Court of the Mighty King

I cannot be an effective human being if I am angry, fearful, or am carrying a chip on my shoulder all the time. I have judgments, ego, fears, and mind-games, sure, just like anyone else, but there’s a difference. Something inside of me is awakening that helps me step back and watch everything from a higher perspective. I increasingly find it easier to step back from my usual time-worn mindset and be thoroughly entertained by the ego-movie we all run on the screen of our consciousness. If you can simply sit back and watch the show, you become more and more aware of yourself as living in this wonderfully divine cosmic movie theater, munching on karma popcorn and sucking down Samsara soda pop, observing how the unconscious givens, biases, and deceptions of the mind entrap us all in opinions that do not illuminate our true being-ness.

A lot of folks just aren’t ready to look dispassionately at their programmed and self-identified minds and personalities. They still love the rattling sound of their judgmental chains and the lock-and-key clang of familiar mind prison bars when the steel door of their own ego judgment slams shut. I love to rattle the cage of those playing with their balls, clanging their own chains of identity, opinion, and mindlessness to help them become witnesses to their own foul habits, and by their witnessing, pray that they wake up and that their habits fall away, replaced by a new and luminous clarity. By rattling your chains and shaking your cage, I just might stir you to become aware of your own imprisonment. It is always good to start a real journey toward truth by exposing one's own personal psychic reality, anyway.

Everywhere I look, I see people gullible enough to believe heaps of bullshit that the mainstream news is dumping into their brains. If there is an American plague that is out of control it is a lack of intelligent, skeptical inquiry that has been used against all of us by the nefarious powers that be that aim to lead us all to the brink of Armageddon. We are no more than incarnate beings, after all, you and me, trapped in the cycle of birth and death, dreaming we are real human beings when we are really no more than walking zombies in a nightmare of our own creation. Yet in all that dreaming, going round and round the wheel of life and death, some of us just might awaken to a new world that is not a dream at all.

It is quite a cosmic joke, is it not? We hate in others what we hate about ourselves and don’t even know we are doing it... except on very rare occasions of true self-observation and enlightenment. Once you catch yourself, all you can do is smile with humility at your own frail humanity. We must all learn to laugh at ourselves more and not take ourselves and the world so seriously. Be fair and balanced in this climate of unsubstantiated opinion prancing around as fact. We’re all hilariously screwed up - admit it - ego-juiced, projecting our unsubstantiated opinions as fact. But some of us do grow in wisdom to understand that we are, all of us, really only jesters in the court of the mighty king. I hope you too will become one of those awakened clowns someday.