JOYFUL PIECE #145

Obsession

Mask of Agamemnon, image by Gleb Simonov, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.¹

Looking at the current “world mess” we see political leaders bent on possession and conquest.

They exhibit an insatiable hunger for power and self-enrichment. The insatiable hunger knows no limit— its satisfaction is elusive. Those entangled in that pursuit ignore the fact that the grave filters out all unnecessary accouterments— only the soul passes through.

Somehow, we lose our ability to choose between the permanent and the impermanent and obsess on achieving, on grabbing, on trying to hold the evanescent.

Are we misdirecting our attention towards a false flag event— a Rolex, a Bentley, a summer home, a throne, petroleum riches, the acclaim of sycophants— instead of focusing on the nature of that permanent gnawing in our hearts for love and acceptance by the other, even when we know that what we have to offer tends to miss the mark much too frequently?

When others seek to dispossess us of our valuables, they distract our attention with hot-button issues. When we obsess about the impermanent, we self-distract and miss satisfying that inner gnawing to be one with all.

Perhaps that gnawing for joy requires pause, presence, and a welcoming of whatever is to come, confident that all will be well. It is there that joy resides.

Resist joyfully the depravity of those who have lost their way and cause suffering, such as war-making and involvement in the Epstein affair.

Reach out to the victims of the POTUS/Netanyahu attacks in Iran, Palestine, Lebanon. Reach out to the dispossessed, the homeless, the hungry, the wounded, the widowed, the orphaned, the lonely, the addicted, the distracted, and all creatures that cry out for relief from the misery that we inflict on each other.

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¹ This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author’s life plus 70 years or fewer.