Practical Nonduality? Part Five
LEONARD COHEN LYRICS - There Is A War
(And from an entirely different song by an entirely different writer: Kenny Loggins)
"She said no! Hey, boy, would you come home to me.
And she said: hey, ramblin' boy, why don't you settle down,
Denver ain't your kind of town.
There ain't no gold and there ain't nobody like me..."
I just watched a documentary on Leonard Cohen and memories of some of my favorite songs over the last 20 years are coming back -- Neil Diamond, Johnny Cash, Buffy Ste. Marie --so many whose careers were furthered by his genius. I think musicians and poets have a leg up over the rest of us when it comes to seeing. (The key words in the liturgy two weeks ago were "I want to see!". and except for those benighted souls that think they already can see, isn't that what we all want?)
But seeing is really tricky because there are so many illusions within illusions within illusions and war seems to be a major consequence of all of them. The best you can do is stand your ground. If Boston ain't your kind of town, stand somewhere where the ground seems what...? Firmer? Prettier? Truer? More yours? Holier?
My problem is, i'm blind, but my blindness is not visible. I think i can see wars, i think i can see evil and good. I think i can see that Boise is a better town than....(what?) San Francisco? Tiajuana? Damascus?
The only thing i can see is that few people can see any better than i see.and that my blindness is caused by polarized thinking. I vow that when i return home on November 6th, having had both my mind (the election) and my eyes (treatment for macular degeneration) messed with, i will make a determined effort to "see better."