Turtle Soup

A long Life

There are some choice restaurants that might serve that. The Oriental touts the turtle as a symbol of long life. Its that reference to life … that touches on my interest here. The Indics depicted the turtle as the first life in the Dasavataram … or the manifestations of man. And despite its primeval nature … its reported as that quality of life that brought the Vedas to man.  And that ought to surprise many … as a suggestion that … the first life in human manifestation … already contained knowledge of life … and it has simply been converted into several applications … in the way it serves the human experience.

 

I think its incredible to consider the possibility … that all around the great circle of creation … there existed in some code … knowledge … whether that related to specie generation … or to the formula that served to construct the architecture of the universe … the formation of stars … planets … and then the life of the being. Science refers to the DNA … as the ' blueprint of life ' … and we must wonder whether we communicate with it in digital or analog format.

 

However in taking to an inquiry of the issue … we bring ourselves to deal with the quality of irascibility in our dispositions … as regards … knowing and not knowing. We hope to be able to manage … these quarrelsome effects … that emerge as part of our ego … to affirm or deny … to be or not to be … and then to wonder about right and wrong. It helps us to create a convalescence … of our wills … and to free it from its natural clamp on the issues.

 

James Michener in the opening chapter of his book … Hawaii … begins from a point out in space … and describes the gradual formation of the earth … the oceans … the volcanic eruptions … and then the formation of these islands out in the Pacific that came to be called Hawaii.  When I broke with my vague sense of knowing … from my formative years … I did something similar … these many years. I referenced all the material I could find … and identified this peninsular here … we call Malaysia … and in the same way … traced the timeline … to create an informed sense of how I came to be here.

 

In arriving at a studied understanding of the experience … founded on terms … names … and scientific references … I substituted that for the intimations of suggestions … some graphic … some passion based … that matched each aspect of the study I was undertaking. And today … as I bring my conscious understanding … to the unconscious suggestions … I make contact with elements of the life force … that represents to my experience … its relation to all that existed before … which I have since … brought into an organized perspective on my life.

 

As I recall … its was totally disorganized … a miasma of mind and passions … rolled into serving my needs as a human individual … in the work and family responsibilities I have engaged. My knowledge and the ' knowing ' represented by my passions … exist alongside each other … in a partnership that has probably journeyed over many lives. It appears to have encouraged me along the way … to take to the study … which was undertaken by past lives … in some measure of achievement.

 

And now it makes the most outrageous suggestion … in intimating to me that … all of its ' knowing ' was in the beginning of creation … taken from my mind … or that person … I was at that point in time. Isn't that just fantastic! Now all I have to figure is how … the knowledge I represent … may be converted to a code in some form … transferred to the next specie … and when the universe extinguishes itself … is converted to yet another code … and then brought out in a new creation … translate the codes … eventually bringing it to man … who will then put it back into the form it is today.

 

All these appear totally bizarre … except for one thing. When I rose from the fall that I experienced … I think I might have been just that … the mind of the timelessness … looking out at the backyard … while entertaining the most strange suggestions and pre-occupations of mind about who I am … and what am I doing here. It certainly felt like the head of the gorgon … that Perseus sought to put to rest … his wandering attention … and no doubt that of the gorgon.

 

But is it possible? I inclined to say it is … and if there are those among us … in consternation over the direction their lives may have taken … my suggestion is to find a quiet spot … and still the mind. Thereafter … to bring into their disposition … their common bias of view … and engage that to re-direct the many impulses of suggestions they receive … taking it one at a time … and put them in a place … that they now think it belongs. It doesn't matter what it used to be before.

 

A point of division that appears clearly in this vast scope of view … is the time man began to use language and to create a representation of his experiences … with words … expressions … and beheld himself in the experience. Prior to that experience … the passions probably existed in a non-verbal manner … communicating by body language … signs … pictures … and touch. Has it been about 8000 �" 10000 years since we started to use words? Did our speech break up the delicate structure of the passions … that had evolved its own manner of understanding itself?

 

There's a long standing relationship that exist naturally … between the mind and the passion … which we have in modern societies … simply identified as the alter ego … friend or wife. I think we recall the times … it suggested that we can have fame … riches … and when that didn't work out … we came to a new experience of learning … about our identity … and about the role of money in our lives. Is that a conversion of a code … into our conscious human understanding of ourselves?

 

If we are exhausted by such suggestions … and decided we are going to block off all such influences … then looking at a mirror … makes a new suggestion at where we have come to in our lives. Dreams … imagination … unbridled desires … fanciful wishes … they all relate to us … in the experience of the world … in which our disposition as to identity has grown just as global. Its a funnel to the individual … who takes it … and applies it to himself … in an orderly manner … with regards to his personality. If its persistent its because … it claims … it took it from us in the first place.