UNDOING YOURSELF

A ZEN STATEMENT


by Christopher S. Hyatt Ph.D, UNDOING YOURSELF, New Falcon Publications

You must give up the thing most precious to you.
You must give up the thing which you love so dearly,
the thing that you hold on to
You must give it up-
You must give it up.

You must see that you are frightened,
that something is at STAKE all the time-
even in your dreams-something is at stake
ALL THE TIME.

Everything which shocks you,
disrupts you, disturbs you can be your friend.
Everything which allows you to sleep,
to be complacent
hinders you.

To become in Accordance with your
TRUE POTENTIAL
you must be in Discordance with yourself.
YOU ARE AT STAKE ALL THE TIME
AND YOU LOOK FOR FOOD WHICH FEEDS YOU.
Anything which delays your end feeds you.
You digest this diet overabundant with FAT.
You are greedy, insatiable,
and require constant FAT to keep you going.
You use more energy and power maintaining
THE ILLUSION
of your insatiable dream than Living.
You will even STRUT to death's window.

But to know the deathless one,
you, the strutter, must die.
You must go on a diet and
starve to DEATH.

You must stop finding yourself in misery,
in cranial pride
and historic stupidity.
You must stop strutting around like a
fattened COW.

You must stop bowing down to your mistakes.
You must stop your idol worshipping.
You must surrender your misery.
You must stop acting surprised when
something happens to you
for it is the same old thing.
You must stop reacting to things
as you always HAVE.
You must stop proving your story.
You must stop extending the past
into the present and future.
You must stop defending your stupidity,
YOUR SLEEP.
You must stop defending
YOUR MISERY.

YOU MUST WAKE UP.

Everyone and everything is food for you.
How people treat you (good/bad) is food for you.
You oppose/conform, all is food for you.
You agree/disagree, all is food for you.

You render opinions on this and that,
and spout authorities to back you up
-all is food for you.
You are surrounded by friends or alone-
all is food for you.

Something is ALWAYS at stake
SOMETHING IS ALWAYS ON THE LINE.

You strut around
proud of the misery
you have caused yourself.
You will do anything to preserve the misery.
You will fight,
you will sneer,
you will accuse,
you will blame,
you will steal,
you will hide
all to preserve fear!

There is always something at stake.
THAT SOMETHING IS YOU.

AFTER YOU HAVE IT ALL, THEN WHAT?

Why are you so hungry?
Do you know death?
Or do you just have snapshots of it?
You act like you are immune to it,
that it happens all around-
but not to you.
Not even death can move you
from your feeding frenzy.

What food is next?

Misery is food,
and you can find plenty of that.
You are never at a loss for that.

You never learn
because MISERY is food
You repeat the same mistake,
the same misery,
over and over.
Worst of all
you do it with pride.
With your sneer of superiority,
WITH A SENSE OF NEWNESS
with a sense of choice.
Yet, it is the same mistake.

You do not even dare find a NEW MISTAKE
A NEW MISERY
since that might wake you from your
feeding frenzy.



TECHNIQUE
When you speak to others notice your dead phrases, your patterned stylized responses. They are indications that you are sound asleep. You have something at stake each time you repeat these habitual phrases and comments.
Find your robot responses that you love so dearly. Monitor them, and then:
STOP
STOP
STOP
STOP

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