Are we at war with ourselves?

Remember the Waffle House bathroom, fumbling for the switch, where light appeared to be at war with darkness?

After finding our way, we watched the West and East Texans refusing to sit at joined tables, looking at each other’s breakfast and refusing to order the same.

When the coffee was brewed, many were at war with themselves.

We gazed, to see boots mired in the overflowing restroom waters of existence and non-existence, is and is not. Customers shoveled six sausage, four bacon, five ego-egg and hash brown breakfasts down their gullet. Eyes locked with the breakfast beers fizz and ignoring the space between each bubble, it was easier to obsess about patty vs. hamburger, driver vs. Airstream, God in sky vs. God in reflection.

Gorging on fast food belief systems, intoxicated by beer chasers, some ‘things’ appearing to mutually arise turned out to be false choices. Food smeared menus obscured the reality that absolute and relative weren’t paired, making certain choices barely visible. Even the Yin Yang Asian Toast (plated as inverse drops) was being served day and night!

For many years we sat confused, until noticing the disclaimer at the bottom of the menu;

‘Mutually arising meals are not served within the Absolute, but as delectable trance. Choice occurs in duality, and duality supports choice. The Absolute, from hungry eyes is the breakfast plate. Please enjoy.’

Slide behind the deep fryer and into the terms & metaphors;

Waffle House - A place of sensory gluttony where small-self has little realization of the Absolute.

Bathroom - A closed-in area that limits the awareness that our real essence is the ‘creator’ and interpreter of other Wills ‘creations’, rather than the creation of the creators. This does not infer we believe our temporal ‘selves’ are not the creation of a more complex Will.

East and West Texans - A phrase alluding to Eastern and Western perceptive assumptions.

Light switch - A comparison that alludes to that which leads to ultimately false dichotomies.

Beer bubbles - Used as a metaphor for thought.

Fast food belief systems - Belief systems that are no longer useful for the optimal experience of duality.

Menu - Any activity, behavior, or thing that competes for the attention of the observer. May refer to activities, things, habits, distractions, language with built in deception, and the commonly defined 5 senses that can act as barriers to understanding and embracing the essential nature. 

Things - Any experience, personality, concept, object, distinction, time, category or section of matter or energy, symbol (including letters and numbers), whether simple or complex that ‘exist’ solely as a symptom of the thought process.

Mutually arise - An Eastern concept of mutually arising and complementary ‘observations of processes’. Many of these concepts are littered with mistakes that arise from an incomplete recognition of the thought process that engenders their definition. 

Trance - Used to indicate any-thing, or any thought, belief system, or perception that is symptom of small-self. We do not ascribe value or worth to such state, just varying levels of awareness that accompany its depth. The trance state is associated with word, spells, mind, ego, things, belief, thought-forms, egregores, god-forms, creation, and perception. The trance state occurs ‘every-where’; with the exception of no-mind, no-thought, and the present. 

Absolute - The ‘Absolute’ is placed in the context of ‘absolute and its subordinate relative’. This does not imply a dualistic relationship, as the ‘Absolute and relative’ are not mutually arising (see def). The vantage of the absolute transcends all suspension of disbelief when aware of the temporal (see def) concept of ‘mutual arising‘.

Relative - A term used as a literary device to indicate all ‘things’ that are found in duality, including viewpoints that suggest yin/yang mutually arising concepts where it’s inappropriate to do so.

‘Waffle House’ - A place of sensory gluttony where small-self has little realization of the Absolute.

Some ‘things’ appearing to mutually arise are false dichotomies.

‘Yin and Yang’ occurs within the confines of our perception.

Stop drinking ‘cheap beer’ and expecting a good buzz.

Vittles of insight await…