The idea
I'm referring to as "bare bones" came to me in a dream, grabbed me by
the throat, and demanded I write it down. But unlike "Satisfaction" and
"Yesterday", mine was neither an
original
dream, and nor were my dream's
ideasoriginal
(I'm certainly not the first person to articulate
its ideas).
What I dreamed as the "bare bones" experience is when there's no more
to life than the essence / the essentials of who we really are. It's
when you're
down to the studs.
It's when life is reduced to ie
stripped down
to just being - nothing more, nothing less. It's like the
experience of being in deep meditation. And even so, given a background
of transformation, the "bare bones" experience of life doesn't require
the context of meditation for the experience to be had.
Bare bones is also when there's nothing left of the meaning and
significance we heap onto life which hides / causes us to lose sight of
/ contact with who we really are. Standing as / coming from who we
really are as simply the context for our lives and for
Life itself
without any meaning or significance we added on getting in the way, is
my take on what that dreamed experience of who we really are is, or at
least it's one possible take on who we really are.
The people whom I admire the most, are those for whom life is a matter
of being - primarily, just being. And in that lies their
satisfaction. For them, to be satisfied, there's nothing else to do
except be. Of course, we are required to do as well.
That's the nature of life as a human being. But looking at life from a
bare bones perspective, it's the being in which the satisfaction of
living is found. Whatever the doing brings ie whatever the action
brings, satisfaction has already been determined by the being. That is
to say, whatever I do if I'm going to be satisfied, it comes from the
bare bones of being, and not from doing.
While that may be a valid if not simplified perspective, the truth of
the matter is there are no hard lines between being and doing. You have
the one, and it goeswith (as
Alan Watts
may have said) the other. I can distinguish the two as separate and
distinct. They aren't. There's not one without the other. So the bare
bones of it all isn't being ... or ... doing. The bare
bones of it all ie the bare bones perspective of it all,
is being / doing. The most
lucid
form of
this idea
that I've ever come across is
Werner's
"Just like the front and the
back of the hand, being and action are distinct yet inseparable.".
It's the bare bones perspective for me, the one I dreamed (albeit not
originally):
being and action, distinct yet inseparable, being/action, being-action,
bare/bones, bare-bones.
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