In Which Where We Are Is Good Enough

06/06/2006 6:59 AM – 7:25 AM

Get up. Get up to let it go. Let it go, there’s the sky again. Let it go, there’s the trees and the streets and the cars and the houses and the sunlight illuminating the tops of far clouds. What is it that you were just looking for? What is your goal? My goal is to accumulate money. Why? Because an accumulation of money is the only way to buy out of the system.

Why do you want to buy out of the system? Because the system is opposed to contemplation. Why does that matter? Contemplation leads to wisdom, wisdom to peace, peace to contentment, and contentment to thicker joy. So let it all go. This is where you are. This is as it is. Don’t forget that you’re not trying to change the world, just act well your small part in it. This to this to this is the only righteousness. What is this we do? Why is it that we sit? All things end. Some things never begin. We get up in the morning. We get up in the morning and learn to lay it down. What is is. What will be will be. Let go and save the self. To save the self is to let it go.

Just let it go, Spikey Jim, let it go. See the shadows the trees cast on the neighbor house. Love don’t cost a thing. Our purpose is enjoyment, the path is delight. Let it go and be delighted. Let it go and return to the face you had before your grandparents were born. What joy can you bring to your tiny little life? What is the substance of an uncalculated smile? Just let it go and live in your existence. Let go, let go, let go; letting go, in the end, even of letting go. Then you simply are and the breeze blows through the widows and the marsh reeds bend with the weight of silver-gray dew. We are. Be content with this because it is all you will ever have, whether you buy out of the system or not. The light suddenly brightens and the little houses glow in a cacophony of wordless chorus. There is the jogger. There, the bus. There, the dust on the widow. Where we are is good enough. Where we fight to climb, spending our last, will be just good enough too. Sit down and sit. Sit down and type. Sit down and draw. Sit down and dream. Then let it go. This is only just what is and its value is more than you could ever earn. So get up. Get up and let it go.