Just a Missing Tail
Freedom ain't nothing but a missing gene long long ago
Documenting Such Muchness of human birth, thinking about birth to just now, luck and that seeming not luck, and I have 65 years and nearly another but a month away to say here I am and I AM as are you. Remarkable to be poorer than even aquarium fish and know sitting in conversation with the best like you at the Banquet invited by the Comte de Lautremont due to that spirit binds us.
https://www.enlightened-spirituality.org/bankei_zen_master.html
Some cogent verses communicating his deep Zen wisdom are as follows (in a translation by Peter Haskel[5]):
Unborn and imperishable is the original mind…. / Search back to the time when you were born: you can’t remember a thing at all! / Keep your mind as it was when you came into the world, and instantly this very self is a living “thus-come-one” [tathâgata, or Buddha]…. / Clinging, craving and the like—I don’t have them on my mind. That’s why nowadays I can say the whole world is truly mine! / … Thinking back over the past, you find it was an evening’s dream. Realize that, and you’ll see everything is just a lie…. / Since, after all, this floating world is unreal, instead of holding onto things in your mind, go and sing! / … When you don’t attach to things, the floating world will cease to be [as a separate, merely objective appearance]. Nothing is left, nothing at all. That’s what “living tathâgata means.” / When you do wrong, your mind’s the demon, there’s no hell to be found outside. / Abominating hell, longing for heaven, you make yourself suffer in a joyful world. / … Mysteries and miracles—there are no such things! But when you fail to understand, the world’s full of weird happenings. / This is the phantom [ego-mind] who deceives, who makes us take the false world to be real. / … When your study of Buddhism is through, you find you haven’t anything new. / Enlightenment and delusion too never existed at the start. They’re ideas that you picked up, things your parents never taught. / If you think the mind that attains enlightenment is “mine” your thoughts will wrestle, one with the other. / These days I’m not bothering about getting enlightenment all the time, and the result is that I wake up in the morning feeling fine! / … Nowadays … I just move along at my ease, letting the breath come and go. / Die—then live day and night within the world. Once you’ve done this, then you can hold the world right in your hand! / It’s the buddhas I feel sorry for; with all those ornaments they wear, they must be dazzled by the glare! / … The mind that’s not conditioned is originally unborn; what is conditioned doesn’t exist—that is why there’s no delusion. / Though the years may creep ahead, mind itself can never age. This mind that’s always just the same. / Wonderful! Marvelous! When you’ve searched and found at last the one who never will grow old—‘I alone!’ The Pure Land where one communes at peace is here and now, it’s not remote, millions and millions of leagues away.
Of course there will be people saying Stegiel, dude, you’re pulling a fast one. When we lost our tail we lost humanity.
Mostly bred out of Species How humans lost their tails: New study isolates single genetic mutation responsible for loss of tails in our ancestors and fellow Great Apes 20 million years ago
Humanity's ancestors have all had tails, but researchers may have identified the genetic mutation responsible for humans and certain primates losing the appendage, a new study suggests.
A group of researchers from New York - including those at NYU Langone Health and NYU Tandon School of Engineering - have found that the TBXT gene (found in all bilateral animals) has a mutation that is present in apes and humans, but not in monkeys.
The mutation on the TBXT gene consists of 300 genetic letters in the middle of it, according to the experts, including the study's lead author, Bo Xia.
This mutation likely caused the tails of certain primates to disappear roughly 20 million year
I maintain even a trace of this tail is family.
https://ko-fi.com/thejournaloflingeringsanity
We learned the Enlightenment is skin deep. Pandemic proved our epoch with esteemed figures hunts witches with passion and condemns disobedient to the life of penury and despair. And these are the lucky ones. The unlucky bowed low in salaam and accepted injections changing this lived life for all time.
May these mutations cause us to lose the genes which code for the lies we tell ourselves. Maybe those who claim this is a spiritual war - a journey to a higher realm - are right. There is much going on which does not necessarily meet the eye. The many levelled mind.