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24-Oct-2001-21:44:30 |
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Honk ... Honk ... Honk ... ... ... ... ... ... ... |
Thirty years ago, this very month, I was in a hotel room in Mallorca meditating my brains out. I was there as part of a six-month course in how to be a perfect meditation teacher. Yeah, right. But at the time I believed in silly shit like that, so there I was in my hotel room, ignoring the beautiful beaches and countryside, meditating eight to twelve hours a day.
The only trouble was that they were doing construction on the hotel next door. Destruction, actually...the kind that involved dynamite. So you'd be sitting there meditating, totally into it, and from outside the window you'd hear this little hand-held, compressed-air-powered horn that the contruction crew used to warn of an impending blast.
The honks from the horn always came in threes, followed by the dynamite. You'd be trying to focus on your mantra and you'd hear it -- Honk ... Honk ... Honk ... ... BOOM! All day, every day of the week but Sunday -- Honk ... Honk ... Honk ... ... BOOM! Sometimes even at night -- Honk ... Honk ... Honk ... ... BOOM! After a while we got used to it, and hardly even noticed. We'd hear the first Honk and mentally get prepared for the inevitable BOOM!
Being given to perverse thoughts, I always wondered what would happen if the construction crew had taken a real dislike to the hundreds of people trying to meditate next door, and decided to fuck with 'em. All it would have taken to push each and every one of them over the edge into incoherent babbling and possibly permanent neurosis is if one day the signal went: Honk ... Honk ... Honk ... ... ... ...
No BOOM!
Just silence.
Imagine.
:-)
Well, I guess my point is that's what the world feels like to me right now. It's like everyone is waiting for the BOOM!...waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Funny how conversation here tapers off in times like that...
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- Boom Boom -- incognito 24-Oct-2001-23:19:33
- aum -- Reality Dreamer 26-Oct-2001-08:59:45
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