Scratch your name Into the fabric Of this world Before you go The skin will tear Under the pressure Make it deep So it always shows Scratch your name As true as love is insane
The Noisettes are rocking my world.
What causes you to be moved this deeply?
As true as love is insane
There's been a few times in my life when I have gone insane. One experience was when I felt a great loss, the other was on a meditation retreat after realizing I have never been born. When an emotion is pure (insane without fear, insane without anger) it is a very lucid and clear experience. I found myself sobbing and my body was throwing all sorts of fits, but my mind was still, pointed, and transfixed. The fear didn't come until I realized that true insanity itself is another face of god. Yet another taste of the transcendent.
But the transcendent isn't all there is. Being human means get caught up in all the day-to-day muck of our lives. Our loved ones die and we grieve. We say yes to too many obligations and we overload on stress. We lash out at others because we're hurting inside.
Where would you be if the world was pure bliss? How would you know what bliss was if you didn't have hell to compare it with? Our human-ness is also the sense doors for the divine. The sooner you realize this, the sooner you'll get over feeling sorry for yourself and make a conscious decision to be a human being.
And that is the paradox, isn't it? And it lends credence to old zen saying: Enlightenment is realizing there is no enlightenment.
You are already enlightened (you always have been), and yet you're not (because an eternal taste would make us forget what we're drinking).


