March 20, 2004
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I'm thinking about assholes. Motherfuckers. Fuckstains. Those kinds of people. The people who aren't even pretending to be kind. The people who I'd categorize as not worth the effort of entering and turning, in the Aikido sense. The ones who define the boundaries of non-attachment, a ring of fire around me that must be fueled in the most expensive way possible.
Now, in my defense, I'll say that I only lump them into this category, not into a monolithic 'enemy' status. There's nothing that they have in common, at least in my mind, except that they're human beings struggling with the same crap I am, and dealing with it in a way that I find unacceptable. Every slobbering frog and every mangy dog, they're just frogs and dogs.
This is a tarot card. It's the four of disks, in the Thoth deck, 'Power.' Power comes from boundaries and barriers. The lesson here (for me, anyway) is that your power is defined by the boundaries it pushes against; without the walls and the moat, the card would just display four towers, and these towers would be vulnerable, and much less powerful. The castle can only measure its power against an invading army.
I don't want invading armies attacking my castle, and I don't want to be an invading army measuring my power against anyone else's castle. I don't want power, then, perhaps. I just want...
To welcome the invading army, and give it a beer, and sit it down on my couch and say, "What's with the puffed-up invading army attitude?" Maybe that's the ultimate 'enter and turn.'
If only it would work.
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if only. you know, too few people in this nation actually remember how to speak to other in real ways, which means that more tha equal part of actual listening.
To welcome the invading army = to turn the other cheek. It throws people off balance. Sometimes w/ good results, sometimes w/ increased *invasion*.
Very insightful entry.
Just build more prisons for them.
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