POST: INTENTION

Here, where we conjecture, our Gods can hear,
that there’s more than just this surface veneer.
Looking down some say from the stars above,
laughing at our prayers for self-serving love.
Aghast at all what we’ve done to the earth,
having another intent for our birth?
Where we believe, we can actually know,
when only in Death we’ll decode what’s so.
Never my dharma, never with the dough,
having but some sprigs of dry mistletoe.
Ergo the intention: To say goodbye,
to spread out the blame, to indemnify,
the Ways of Being, if ever to be clear,
as to what could be here, behind this mirror. 

Such words on paper thought of some value,
in three generations home for mildew.

Most of us clueless, not even curious as to what might be our real purpose and function on earth.  Much less that in the grander scheme of things.  Hardly worth seeking our real purpose, considering the amount of time of the Universe has been in existence a non entity in 3 generations,   That intention, barely significant.  Only recognized by a few in history.  Most of us opting for more immediate and more available objectives.  Finding  meaning: in our professions, having children, loving, leaving something good and positive behind, etc. etc. are some examples. 

Few of us ever coming to the understanding of our perennial, essential mission and/or the function of our life.  Due mostly to our ignorance of its value, immanence and significance on the earth.  Either rejecting anything more, than our own contrivance, or merely believing in a mission and function our Cultures and Religions have conditioned us to have. 

 The Absolute, Eternity, Existence, The Universe, The Cosmos, The Scheme Of Things, what some people call God) having some need of our life and its interactions in time.  In the order of their (our interactions) occurrence, for reasons and purposes of its, or their own.  That if otherwise and not for it, and if man’s consciousness were only an accident, how would it (the universe) otherwise recognize itself?  How would it know to maintains its own existence, and continuing to be, without creating  some way of seeing and getting some feedback for itself.  The reason for the creation of mankind.

By that definition life is vital, pivotal, essential within the grander scheme of things, our having as individuals little choice in the matter.  Having not asked to be born.  Nor with any control as to when.  Life in its microcosm, driven more by circumstance and occurrence, mandated and obligated at a given point in time, to fulfill a specific supposedly unknown function in time?  Via, from the occurrence of energies and necessities, beyond our comprehension and control.  Having imperatives, that we can barely conceive of, that we cannot help, but to perform and or do.  Including experiencing our sufferings while still alive here.   Most of which we ordinarily would not have chosen to engage in or do.  Much less, what we were educated and/or socialized for, when young.  Our life being driven mostly, but maybe not always, by the Grander Scheme Of Things.  

Our sufferings, our dilemmas, and rebukes said by some, having the function of developing the necessary humility to perceive and apprehend man’s purpose and destiny in the Grander Scheme of Things.  That once in league with it (the grander scheme of things) one can have choices as to where, what and which way, and how fast to go.  Our sufferings, triumphs, redirects, and dilemmas incurred  when meeting life’s dilemmas and challenges, having been imposed by Occasion and Geography for the (Grander Scheme Of Things’) own rationale.  Each one antecedent in another’s causation in time.  Few of us ever seeing, much less knowing how our behaviors in the aggregate, our functioning, our coping, our suffering integrate and fit into that larger constellation, toward meeting our greater and our sacred purpose in time.  Nevertheless, always completed or accomplished while here.

Said by some, that of the advancing of human evolution.  Not that of Darwin, or the so called survival of the fittest or that of the Social Biologist.  Rather (the advancing toward a time when mankind can (while maintaining its specific benefits) transcend the confines of our Species’ biology, and conditioning  and eventually our circumstances, for purposes of its (of Existence’s) own.  Our obligations, those imperatives, the dying’s and sufferings of individuals not unlike that of the pruning and dying of various cells in the body for the greater health and intent of the larger entity (the Absolute), having had fulfilled their primary function. The first step along, the almost infinite way finding our place and purpose in time. 

The phrase (Scheme of things) used here, merely as a guideline, distinct from words like destiny and or predestination, the latter implying there’s no other option.  We can and do, sometimes make choices, but not very often, so driven and controlled  by our biology, conditioning and circumstance.  Said, when and if developed enough, real choices can be made in certain situations and capacities.  Usually to align with, correspond to, or to refine the greater intention.  

REFERENCES:

Mistletoe: A parasitic  plant that invades and lives off another eventually at the expense of its host.  Aside from it’s obvious reference to kissing under it during Christian holidays, some Druids had it, that what lies dormant below it, through love will come back alive again someday. Thought also to have been an aphrodisiac, albeit highly toxic when ingested.  Used also as an amulet for protection, Ritual of oak and mistletoe.

          Dharma: In some Hindu sects, the cosmic order.  In the Rig Veda, the supporting and or sustaining aspects of the universe, i.e. their God. 

          Dharma in Buddhism for many, their teachings, the way in some other interpretations. https://rlp.hds.harvard.edu/religions/buddhism/dharma-teachings-buddha

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