another remark on al-cool

the power of alkohol is the power of a plant, too.
it even refers to the spirit.

nevertheless, it represents the principle of disconnection.
it signifies a method of getting in contact with the plant
instead of the quality of the plant itself.

the method becomes more important than the plant itself.
the method has its own attraction for human play instinct.
the method makes the message of the plant itself forgotten.

it is an approach to the plant which leads away from the plant.
 the main hazard of drinking.
it immediately pulls the drinker to another direction
as that his soul is longing for.

it’s a trickster’s game.
the trickster is part of the divine order, too.
not being well prepared for encountering the trickster.
not being aware of his presence.
loneliness, confusion, desparation emerge.
not to mention the displacement of responsibility.
any real vision - that is: any image with
a seriously life-supporting power - stays away.

probably the only chance to avoid this could be:
following a strict ritual setting of drinking,
thus establishing a strong and veracious position
for man in the world: holy human live composition.

perhaps even the bacchanal with its savage shape
is more effective than the pub, the bar, the living-room.

how?

i don’t think so.
do you feel the brilliance?
it isn’t
i don’t think that.

like we say in german
ich glaube das nicht!
instead of
ich glaube nicht so -
auf diese art und weise.

of course
the adverb so
stands also for
what you just said
so so is actually
another kind of that

nevertheless

in english
when we are talking
about what we think
we are also talking
about how think

thus the english phrase
expresses far more depth
since the way we do anything
is always more relevant
than what we are actually doing

no matter if it is
- dish-washing
- making tax declaration
- talking to your neighbour
- sitting in the waiting room
- making love
or…
- thinking

hark!
there’s another one
i hope so…

cut!

it’s not about: I am thinking.
it’s rather: my mind is thinking.

the moment I manage
to realize this perspective,
everything will become more simple:
the thinking part of myself will take it’s place
- and it will also recognize its boundaries.

and immediately
all the other elements and regions
of „I“ or „myself“ or „my self“
will get much more space.

they’ll start
to breathe,
to come in presence,
to be.

how do I create freedom?
bringing things in order, even:
seperating them from each other.

CUT!

unlimited, coherent, whole, holy
beautiful essence of being.

sunday news - a narrow-minded remark

visiting my father in his well-organized daily life retreat opens my eyes for some most simple facts and fundamental questions. such as: when you are used to read the newspaper every morning after your breakfast, you may take notice of a certain lack on sunday. 

is this the deeper sense of the happy news, the evangelium? 

after having read bad news for six days you are invited to take insight into something good? 

if you do not go to church on sunday, you may enjoy the bible instead of the newspaper. 

until bourgeois societies invented the sunday newspaper…

pardon?

when we hear a strange word or an unknown, complicated name we are mainly used to ask for its spelling. obviously we think that knowing how to spell a new item helps us understand it - while actually we draw ourselves away from our audial perception, the central path of understanding. 

„to understand“ refers to both: to physical perception of something we listen to - and to the content related capture. anyway it refers to the sense of hearing. who wants to grow in an inner, positive way should care for his ability to listen - instead of saving himself from the mire of blur by resort to reading.

max and sophie...

most germans love to baptize their children „maximilian“ and „sophie“. not such a big surprise: perhaps parents thus want their sons to direct themselves to the huge and the great - and their daughters to the wise…

i go for maximiliane and sophian. 

if people use male names like marian, lucian - why is there no sophian? by the way: no hannan or annan either, as far as i know. maximiliane already exists, at least. nevertheless it seems more urgent to implant the idea of wisdom in the boys’ minds than the idea of greatness in the girls’...

that what does not exist - is it always the most important?

strange fruit

during the 20th century people in western societies were taught not to stand around and gawk at accidents and their victims. this lesson had some success. no reason for a halleluja: unfortunately the public behaviour turned from curiosity into neglect. instead of helping people feel best with ignoring