the forsaking

the world is filled with games from which to stay away and we have:

the un-ready and the ready

• the un-ready get pulled in quickly by the games of the world
  • they don't often make things happen, but let them happen
  • they let themselves get taken in by the games
• the ready see the woods for the trees
  • they know that to win they should not play the game
  • they have a strong sense of willpower and choice

doing too much

• the shine loses its gloss when we try to make it seen
  • i.e. the other loses its otherness when we build it into the same
• we want to thwart any saying of "this is it" or "that is that"
• we do that, since we do not want to "give it away"
• we do not want the answers to come too straightforwardly

thwarting the light

to thwart the light that showed the truth:

• the old folks had masks
• others along the way had glass walls (or drawings)
• meanwhile, we "write with light"

we have tried "writing with light" to make "the other" into "the same"

(we all know we cannot, so now what? we thwart the light!)

online workhouse of shapeless deeds

stepping out of the online workhouse of shapeless deeds:

• sitting at the board of a thinking room, writing this long penning
• hoping to build a work that can be tied up into something
• the much-needed stillness has at last shown itself 
• early mornings will steer this undertaking away from the crowds of the dumb

taking heed in the "holy deeds of the thinking back":

• no more wanting the midstream to become like us 
• let the midstream stay the midstream
• let us hide away in the hinterlands
• onwards - to higher layers of thought!