Earth, Bread and Grave

Earth, Bread, and the Grave

There are more worlds within this world than most are aware of. This is a lesson unto that other world—the one that finds itself in contest with this one, asking: Which world is real? To her, to him, and to me.

To say the other world is beyond the grave, or the land of the dead, is a misconception. There will always be movement from here to there, from what comes before to what happens next. So let us not focus too heavily on destinations. Let us instead find out where we are right now, what is between us, and what our boundary is.

As I have stated: there is here, there, then, and before. These are simply movements. And I think you can agree that there is movement, and because there is movement, there is us—there is you, and there is I.

“Beyond the grave” symbolizes, that is where I will be, and where you were. But for me there is anxiety in that, and for you there is longing. This does not work for either of us, so we will discard it, because it does not work. And unto you I say: look, you were not discarded either, so you must work as well.

Let us simplify this.

What is hunger? Is this not simple enough? We have lived with it. It surrounds us and is always present, whether in myself or another. I must live with it, it seems—and with the discarded definition, I must die with it. You see, it still does not settle.

Why do we experience hunger?

Hunger is here in my world as an urge to overcome. Simple as it is: I am hungry, so I must overcome in order to satiate that hunger. So to say, as long as I feel I must overcome, there will be hunger to satiate. I must overcome the beast, the plant, the world—because it is hunger that does this. This urge to overcome. I must push my body to the limit to overcome, to thwart limit—which is hunger as well.

Yes, you can seemingly use hunger. But how do you overcome hunger itself? Can you?

Let us examine this. Let us examine this in comparison to fear, which I believe has a relationship with hunger. For hunger, seemingly, can overcome fear as well.

I sit upon a chair. The chair is a fact. No matter what I say to it, it remains a chair. And notice: outwardly, I am sitting on a chair, but inwardly, I am comfortable sitting on a chair. You see, both within and without—forgive this silly syntax of what is “without”—I am trying to say it is with you outwardly, and with you inwardly.

It is a fact. So my mind, seeing that no matter how I argue with the chair it remains a fact, both inwardly and outwardly, must settle the matter. The argument may become: Am I comfortable enough with this chair, or another? But still, the chair remains.

Now fear.

I sit on, or in, fear also. The monster may outwardly impose the fear, but to a proper perspective, it is the fear—not the monster. It is difficult to remove an image so as to see the proper transmission of such things. But if I remove the image of the monster, to see what the fear actually is, I find that it is invisible. I sense it outwardly and look inwardly as well. There is no argument with fear. I must remove myself from it the same way I get up off the chair.

So hunger.

I sit in hunger.

You see the difficulty with this.

If I sit in hunger, the same as the fact of a chair, and the same as fear, then hunger should be settled. I have fed myself to it, because here I am, sitting in it.

Explore this—it is quite fun, and I do not want to steal this hunger from you. It is quite the lesson.

But I will say this: what an illusion hunger is.

The illusion is something you do not see that causes something. But look—when I sit in it, it does not cause anything strange. I would say that it is an illusion brought by a senseless need. You see, senseless—for I am sitting in it. It is neither inside nor outside. If I am sitting in it, I should be satiating it, because I have overcome myself by sitting in it.

Yes—this is how it is done.

Hunger is the illusion, where the fact of fear and the chair you are sitting on remain facts.

So let us talk about the proper way.

If I am proper, I can live a life without hunger. Many do this. But notice: by not being proper with the way, suddenly I fall out of alignment, and now I need to overcome. Hunger returns very specifically: I must overcome the world I live in. Longing and anxiety bring hunger too, because I must overcome them.

Hunger believes that it can overcome anything. Look into that.

But I say, so does being proper.

As Buddha has said, being in the Eightfold Path also overcomes this hunger that seems to arrive. Morality also overcomes hunger. I live in morality, and I live the Eightfold Path. Notice how the mind and body come together without hunger. Now it is just living.

A need or needs signify a fear