spinning

day upon day...Learning, teaching, listening, talking, leading following. What do I have to say today? almost nothing. I saw nothing of interest today.

Wait, there was one thing. I was outside of the office where I am consulting this week, taking a break. There happens to be an FBI office above the floor I am inhabiting (helps the explanation). A man was standing about 15 feet away from me taking a similar break. He decides I am the one he should talk to.

Him: Do you work in that building?
Me: Yes, for this week.
Him: For the FBI?
Me: Why, do I look like a fed to you?
Him: I don't know, but I have a few things to say to them and this is my first foray (assume back and forth from now on)

ok, (turn away)

you know what, 9/11 was a sham, we have all been fooled!, sorry, I have been drinking, but I am a scientist and I know that an aluminum plane cannot fly through steel girders.

Well, isn't it all about momentum

I am a scientist and I know that it isn't possible

what kind of scientist are you?

well, I am a biologist, but I was the first person from my high school to win the state physics fair, so I know a little about physics and I know that is not possible, we have all been fooled. I have called the police and the fbi, they don't listen.

ok

nobody understands what is happening in this country and I am an angry american.

I agree with you that no one knows what is really going on in this country, least of all us

I think I know what is going on, i have been conducting my own research

It is a dangerous path to walk, to assume that you are the only one who knows what is going on and that everyone else has been fooled, you know no more or less than I do

maybe

I don't believe what is happening in the far reaches of our government is affecting my daily life at the moment and I am certainly not going to worry about it

you are right, but we have all been fooled.

I am not fooled because I don't concern myself with such things. I know what I know and am willing to accept what I don't. nothing to it.

don't be so naive, my friend, do you know kgo radio? I call them every night to tell them what I have learned and they don't want to hear it. (am I bothering you)

no, I do not concern myself with such things.

say do you ever go and get a drink at bosley's over there in the courtyard?

no, I was a bartender for 6 years, I kinda lost my taste for it. (walk away)

This is why I no longer work in a bar. This man has lost so much of his sense of self that the only thing keeping him conscious is the possibility that he may be tapped into some secret that no one else has yet to figure out. He was truly lost. Lost in delusions most glaring.

We all live with these delusions every day. Hey, I think these glasses look good on me. I have no way of knowing that to be true. Delusion.

Trust your mind to be true and righteous. Trust your being to do the right thing. Do not concern yourself with things you cannot see or change. Start from within and work your way out. Make peace with yourself. All else is beyond your control and is a fruitless endeavor.

In every virtue all-accomplished,
with wisdom full and mind composed,
looking within and ever mindful-
thus one crosses the raging flood.