For those who aren't ready for a
Zen
answer,
"Because I do"
can be puzzling, perplexing, even infuriating. They'll say this answer
is incomplete, confusing, even evasive - as if there's
really another answer, the real answer which
they assume, for reasons known only to myself, I'm holding back or
avoiding sharing. It's assumed that because I don't give a rational,
sensible answer ie an explanation, I must be ducking
the issue. It's more than that actually. It's because I don't give a
rational, sensible answer to
why,
it's assumed
Conversations For
Transformation
are somehow invalid.
Listen: if you try to filter
Zen
through what's rational, or through what makes sense, give up!
There's definitely no hope. You'll never get it
that way ...
No, I'm not holding anything back. Really I'm not. This is
the answer: "I write these
Conversations For
Transformationbecause I write these
Conversations For
Transformation.".
And given these are
Conversations For
Transformation
after all, this arguably
Zen
answer isn't just an appropriate answer in the genre: it
really is the truthful answer, the actual answer, and (if
you're willing to fully afford
Zen
all its sublime, awesome power) it's the accurate answer -
bottom line.
There are two distinctions in play here. The first is this:
who I really am,
who we really
are,
the
Self
I really am, the
Self
we really are, doesn't exist for a reason - it just
is. We love to explain ourselves. Man! We really
love to explain ourselves, don't we? Go on, tell the truth
... But even if and when I can't explain myself, I still
unavoidably am! As dearly as we hold onto the age old
belief "Everything happens for a reason", requiring a reason for
already being, is naïve. It's also an impediment to total
transformation.
I assert things don't happen "for a reason". Rather,
things happen because they happen. Everything else is simply
conjecture and commentary, which leads to significance and a
story through which to live Life rather than simply
living Life ... that, plus a hopelessly
futile
attempt to living Life ... that, plus a hopelessly futile attempt to
avoid the dominance of the
what's so
world in which it's the way it is because it's the way it is,
and it's the way it isn't because it's the way it isn't.
Conversations For
Transformation
are an expression of the
Self
at play in the
what's so
world. Therefore, appropriately, there's no reason for writing them. I
write them because I write them.
If I'm accurate and authentic expressing
who I really am
ie if I'm accurate and authentic coming fromwho I really am,
you'll get
who you really
aresimply by listening. Notice for this to happen, I don't have to
write aboutwho I am.
Writing about
who I am
may be useful. It may even be
interesting.
But this action isn't required for the project to
work.
Coming from
who I am,
what I unavoidably write is
who I am.
In other
words,
coming from
who I am,
what I unavoidably do is
who I am.
Said another way, in a
context
of
transformationI do what I am - which is to say, I do
what I really am (by the way, that's all I do, and that's
all I'll ever do).