Am I Supposed to be Feeling Something?

[Guest guest]

Nisargadatta , " skywhilds " <skywords

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> ARE WE SUPPOSED TO BE FEELING SOMETHING?

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> Are we supposed to be feeling happy?

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> Outraged?

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> Ashamed?

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> Stupid?

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> Smart?

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> Superior?

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> Inferior?

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> What if most feelings just have no name?

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> What if most feelings are not even, primally,

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> experienced as either " good " or " bad, "

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> negative or positive?

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> What if we've been " brain washed " into giving them

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> one or another social, cultural, artistic or, even,

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> asocial meaning or significance?

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> What if feelings are infinite and beyond articulation,

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> hence, beyond commodification?

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> What if attaching significance to feelings is just a

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> capitalist effort at objectifying the self in order

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> to either sell it, condemn it, or exploit it in some way?

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> What if even poetry and art, literature and philosophy,

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> even this here, are forms of soul

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> prostitution?

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> And what if even the words, " soul prostitution, "

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> are equally forms of said commodification,

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> exploitation.

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> What if language is a whore?

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> What if the very act of naming is a form of manipulation

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> and enslavement?

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> What if we're all in the business of selling our feelings,

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> and are thus, whores of shared emotion?

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> What if it would be best just to leave feelings alone?

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> To just feel them and leave them at that?

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> And what if even this suggestion fails itself?

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to feel feelings

to think thoughts

to imagine

to love

to scheme

to revel in the dream

 

one needs only to be

unattached

to oneSelf.

 

herein lies the paradox of duality.

 

Being alive AS the thinking thought

the feeling

the imagining

the lover

the schemer

the reveling dream

 

and surrendering nothing that is not already ours;-)

 

and we meet here, right now,

no-one sees no-thing but the Beloved.