Unbelievable

Kinky Stuff

Kinky Friedman … the country singer .. author … politician … humorist … and cigar salesman … strikes quite a personality … as a man … who values original thinking. And in doing so … he may well illustrate that its not without … a flavor of the unusual … or a point of view that is sourced from another place … other than our usual accustomed normalcy. It brings into view the meaning of ' Kinky ' … as if it does not depend on anything else for its perspective.

 

It reminds me of how I sometimes take my cigarette into the shower. I've always experienced such a commanding guide on how a person can possibly bathe … that I sometimes try to prove that … we can modify its standards without losing its objective. And yes … it is possible to smoke while taking a bath … you simply have to hold the cigarette above the shower head.

 

In the story of … The Elves and the Shoemaker  … a man undertook something beyond the normal capacity of a man … and yet made no claim … to his achievement. Instead he made up a story … to say that some non-existent elves came during the night … and helped him to make the shoes. Does that make it more believable … than to say he did it himself?

 

It points to something in the nature of the self … that denies any volition on our part … relying instead … on an identity … that is held to be entirely influenced by society or someone else. It would mean that … in the understanding of our norms … we are completely given to deny … our individual volition on issues. The individual is trained from a young age … to only refer to another … as the only possible way … an individual does anything.

 

It explains why … when we raise the spectacle of our own will on issues … our own thoughts on a matter … we experience it as ' kinky.' I wonder if that would apply to … all the inventions that has come to be achieved … for airplanes … cars … radio … TV … satellites … and so forth. And how does the inventor … account for his actions in the discovery of the creative genius … behind the design … fabrication … and application of an invention to a task?

 

The Christian ethic obviously understood the issue … and gave to us … the application of … ' in the name.' It took the place of the person … who was the doer … and even at a diminished level of practice … it may have provided the support … necessary for us to identify … and undertake activity as self. It took over the primary responsibility for our actions … and freed man from … the tangles of the conscience … and our own inquiries to understand our actions.

 

It obviously served the man … to deny that he was the cause of the action. We may have undertaken this with all manner of devices … most of it social … that created the attitude of … not drawing attention to ourselves. The centipede was moving along happily … when a toad asked him … ' Pray which feet moves after which?' … and caused the centipede to lay distracted in a ditch.

 

Asian practices took to the practice of dharma … that implied that all actions … that we undertake … are in cooperation with everyone else … and is to serve everybody.  Hence they referred to the self as … the self of all. Thereafter the individual creates a relation to that … self of all … as the human individual in the world's experience. The exercise is observed to be both … a declaration of the validity of Gods … as it is a statement of the role of man.

 

It raised the personality of Dharman … as the only man who understood the allocation of power in the universal creation energies. Hence in the Mahabarata … the Indics … had him installed as emperor of the realm of creation. Its the will of creation … that manifest itself as the … true doer … in all affairs … and to which the man refers to as himself … in representation of the power of the universe. We know we have exercised it wrongly … when it is taken away from us.

 

Such an error arises from the biases that man himself cultivated in the life of the world. We offered our respects to the Sun … the universe … the mother … the ego of man … and eventually to the power of the nation … in the world. Each in its time … provided the right response to the will of man … and raised him to positions of power. However … we discover today … the fact that … the source of the power is founded in the evolutionary zeal of life … to arrive at its greatest perfection of being.

 

 Is there one quality we can ascribe to the experience of the doer? Certainly that quality will not be optimism … that the universe is perfect in its design. However it is a quality … that does not attract a protest … or a resistance. For instance … where we might rise to go … to a cabin in the woods … we undertake it with equanimity and in peace. Its is not thwarted in its actions. Hence … if something can happen … it was supposed to. In an extension of the principle to the state of the world … at this time … the Indic swamy says … ' its all perfect ' … because its happening.

 

And when someone asked … the Indic mystic Sai Baba … ' but why does God permit wars? … and how do you say its still perfect?' He responded with … ' its the balance of life.' The remark must be a point of curiosity with folks … who are likely to think that … perfection … means a state of complete harmony. So it appears ' kinky ' … when someone says … ' how else would a person challenge or defend a belief that's held … in aggressive determination.'

 

As a result … somewhere along the way … kinky turns magical … and becomes a part of life … even as we wrestle with the need to hold things stable … and to keep it harmonious. And thereafter … the spontaneity of life … becomes the defining principle … in the individual personality … of the doer. If we had to substitute for the word ' kinky ' … I guess it'll be … spontaneous. Okay … spontaneous and unbelievable. That's two words … Kinky!