Meditations X2

How with the coming of age, your wisdoms of life increased, and, you started, understanding things you’d read, in more depth, than before, translated…

1.

What’s so amazing about Eris, the Goddess of strife and discord, is that you know she’s with bad intentions, as she delivered that golden apple, so you’d, elevated your own awareness to the highest, to tell yourself, not to fall for her tricks, but, that voice of warning from within fell quiet, the two of you circled around that golden apple and started in argument, both believing you were focused on the matter (who’s the most beautiful goddess, who’s right, etc., etc., etc.), not knowing, that this argument you’re currently in, has anything to do, with that goddess of discord, smiling close by.  The foolishness of man, the Greek mythologies already, foretold.

And so, this, is how the two of you, engaged in argument, over, the most miniscule of matters of who left the toilet seat up, who didn’t make the bed when s/he got up, who didn’t clean the dishes after eating the meals, etc., etc., etc., and it’s, exactly, these, seemingly, unimportant matter of your, daily living that will, accumulate through the years, and one day, the two of you will wake, and find that, oh my god, who’s, this, stranger in the mirror, and who the HELL had I been, sleeping with, then, voila, congrats, on the end of your, marriage!  Now, if you will, sign here, next to the “X”, initial here, here, her, and here, and I will get it filed, and your divorces will be, finalized, soon, I promise!

2. 

“The Stories, after Eye-Opening, after those who came afterwards, embellishing on them.  With the comings and goings of life’s daily routines, how can it be, unclear”.~~~Dao-Chou Huang.

From before when I was still a student, I lacked self-confidence, and, when I read the original classics, I’d, relied on the “secondhand” interpretations adding to the information, rarely gotten to know, that the classics, are already, with a ton of knowledge to teach me.  Later, I’d learned not to read from someone else’s, interpretations, and, stand face-to-face with the classics, and, I’d felt, that I was, stepping on, stabler, grounds then.  The raw materials will, slowly, come into shape and to your understanding, as you read repeatedly, like it wasn’t, just read, by me, but, through my eyes.  Surely, you need to spend a lot of time with it, for the original classics, to soak in, to saturate, in your mind.

And so, this, is why the classics are, important, because maybe when you were still a student, and had been, forced to read the volumes, the purpose of your reading the verses are for the sake of passing that exam, but, as you grow older, you will, return to those, old classics, if you’re meant to, and reread, and, then, you’d, gained some forms of, enlightenments from it, because you’re, no longer, that young school kid who was, forced to read the volumes, because this time, as you read, you could better relate to what those volumes are saying to you, due to, your, acquired, life, experiences.