It's Been Awhile

"Soft Watch at the Moment of First Explosion"
 The soft watch itself is a surreal symbol which adresses the
 unimportance or the irrelevance of time during the process of a dream.

It's been awhile since I've posted here on the blog and those who know me know why. Like the Dali painting above, time has been seen as a dream and like Dali's first presentation of the soft watch, life can be seen as "The Persistance of Memory,"  which for me is all time really is, a measurement of experience and memories from the begining to the end.

 Recent  day's have seemed like Dali's watch exploding into an ever faster and disintgrating pace of surrrealism. Yet at  the same time experiencing the Einsteining physics of the slowing of the days events while trying to gain clarity.  Though it has been awhile, alot has happened that maybe those who see daily what Dali painted above will understand. So today I felt compelled to just write and post a few things that allow for a little contemplation of time, experience and memory and try to find that peaceful place or unspace of no time. And what better song then "It's Been Awhile" by Staind  to throw a little light with an introspective song about realizing that it's been awhile since a lot of things.

While it's so easy to lose sight of the NOW, it's never to late to be present, as NOW is is the only time we will ever have.  Yet we all get busy planning our future for tomorrow or reliving the past as if  today were yesterday.  We fall into a reality trap, seeing our own perspective from past colored glasses of experience. As Einstein states,

The pressures of the daily grind can literally bring our lives to halt, supressing the will to actively choose and wake up from the dream. Like Plato's cave shackled to watching the shadows in our socially constructed society that shapes our perspective to try and fit into it's social "Forms" and "Norms."  When, if you really think about it, all there can be is formlessness and the flux between the forms. Instead we percieve our reality on what we have constructed which in turn shapes our shadowy Mayan perspective or "our" opinion.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
 Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Marcus Aurelius




"Galatea of the Spheres"
Salvdor Dali

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it
 considers to be shackles limiting our vision. - Salvador Dali

Progressive art  can assist  people to learn not  only about  the objective
 forces at  work in the society in  which they live, but  also about the intensely
 social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward
social emancipation.                                                                                Salvador Dali

Yet as social creatures it's easy to be shaped by  these constructs of  the  Matrix of our own design and unnconsciously sleep through the days events. We drift  so far away from our True Self  that we began to experience time as some surrealistic dream  of being on the Outside looking in. Time to suspend what we think we know as reality and find the ideal image of the true self  through balance and walk the path of the Middle Way. And there is the daily challenge, to suspend the norms and just be part of the flux, and flow with the ever changing fluidity of life and not try to control it as we are so like to do. Bruce Lee often spoke of this as Wu Wie which involves knowing when to act and when not to act, or the natural action to do without doing.

"Wu-Wei"

"The basic idea of the Tao Te Ching is NATURALISM in the
 sense of wu-wei (inaction), which really means taking no unnatural action.
 It means spontaneity; that is. "to support all things in their natural stage" and
 thus allow them to "transform spontaneously." In this manner Tao "Undertakes
 no activity and yet there is nothing left undone."

But if we allow ourselves, and we do,  we get out of balance and can easily  feel on the outside of everything and everyone, disconnected and alone. Aaron Lewis of Staind writes about this in another brilliant song he first recorded live on the 1999 Family Values Tour in Biloxi Mississippi. In fact he never really wrote the lyrics as much as they just came to him live on stage as improv except the chorus and the first verse. So we get a peak inside the psyche of Aaron while he reflects  from a place of memories thathas him on the Outside Looking in.