Nicole Daedone
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July 27, 2024
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Piercing the Membrane

Beneath it all is a seed

If you can touch the seed directly, you can convert it

It will push your attention away, it will deny, but see if you can stay with it

 

The nature of the everyday world—

referred to as samsara—

the interface between awareness itself and the world of appearances—lies a membrane

That says

“I do not want to be here” “I do not want to exist” “I do not want to deal with this”

 

All poisons arise from this

This moment is uncomfortable, this experience is difficult, this hunger is unbearable

It drives drives drives 

Us into consumption, into rejection and fight, into distraction

 

Everything we are looking for is through the other side of that membrane but we bounce along the surface

Lured into consuming, fighting and checking out

Hoping that the pleasure-lure will last

Knowing that it never will

Which produces a fundamental anxiety

The neurosis of the temporal

 

Don’t live in the reaction

Go to the source

Meet the voice head-on

Look it in the eye

Recognize that it is the voice of the world 

And not yours

Cut the cord between that voice and you

 

Don’t replace it with “I want to be here”

Just cut the cord of ‘Not’ 

And watch the whole world change

Watch the neuroses of compensation—

Withdrawal, tension, pressure, irritation, fear, panic,

That urge to escape—

Dissolve

 

I’ve come only for this

That’s the new mantra

 

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