Posted on September 6, 2012, in Poetry, Writing and tagged Drugs, Friendship, Love, Madness, Memories, Self-expression, Social commentary. Bookmark the permalink. 10 Comments.
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“You should stop words and letters, and learn to withdraw and reflect on yourself. When you do so, your body and mind will naturally fall away, and your original Buddha nature will appear.” – Dogen.
Now, where can I find . . . ?
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Stacked in the back room
Filed but not forgotten
Admissions of a structure junky
Stringy theories . . .
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A most interesting poem of life’s abandonment by friends…or perhaps one should say associates.
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He was an interesting friend. Many happy memories.
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“followed the road less travelled” – did he suffer from a mental problem?
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One of the things I was attempting here was to dissolve the conventional distinction between “sane” and “mad”, “normal” and “deranged”, healthy” and “sick”, etc.
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Yes, and that’s why I first wrote “emotional” instead of “mental” (in my question already answered by you) but for some reason, probably to avoid a misunderstanding, I changed it to the conventional “mental” problem ….
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I’m not sure there is always a clear distinction between the mental and the emotional at an existential level. As I commented somewhere today, words are powerful tricksters.
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Oops, you already gave me the answer to my question. 🙂
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Is a mental “problem”, the individual’s problem, or that of other people? There is so much muddy thinking/feeling about this whole area, including the nature of mind, of consciousness, of normality, of reality …
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Yes, it is indeed a murky area. What’s normal in one culture is considered sick in another. And some people are so intimidated by what others think that they have no own identity and not the guts to be who they are. However, when your thoughts torture you, because you lose the feeling for what is real and what is imagined; when you see yourself torturing others although you are the most gentle person on the planet; when you don’t touch anything around you anymore without gloves on your hands because you are convinced that you will get contaminated with a lethal substance… (my son… we just came back from the emergency ward of our mental hospital a few hours ago. He couldn’t bare the thoughts anymore. Fortunately, talking to the psychiatrist/psychologist on duty really helped him and we got some good tips)… THEN YOU have a problem.
It’s 3:20 in the morning/a.m. here and I’m going to bed. Good night/good morning. 🙂
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Considering how complex our mind and body are it is amazing that so much functions OK so much of the time at all. I hope you both got a good night’s sleep in the end.
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