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Why does the flesh encumber me?

Posted by themoonandpluto at 08:14 AM on January 27, 2010

Why does the flesh encumber me?

Why must I sleep to rest my mind?

Why am I limited by my range of vision?

Why can't I have wings to fly?

Why can't I control the division of my cell cycles and never fear cancer?

Why do my kidneys and intestines force me to be disgusting?

Why do the telomeres on our genes have to shorten?

Why is birth so painful to the mother?

Why is death so feared?

Why can our minds go where our bodies will never allow us to follow?

Why does everything take so long to accomplish, while our bodies get weaker and more contaminated and more rigid and less attractive, to the point of not being able to enjoy the success once it's accomplished?

If anyone answers, because God made it that way, I will find you and slap you. If the universe decided on this method, I would like to understand why? It is so freakin inefficient and counterproductive to any kind of advancement. It is all a struggle, before you get buried or turn to ash.

Not to imply the struggle doesn't have it's pep and joy, but wouldn't you love to be less limited and constricted in daily life? Can't help but wonder why we've settled for this system of functioning. If I wasn't limited by the need for sleep, I could accomplish everything I ever wanted to before the age of 35! But, at this pace, it ain't gonna happen, even with every waking moment of my life being full of tasks. What are the benefits of flesh over spirit? Why don't we (all species) exist strictly in spirit form, with no boundaries or limitations? How would that be different? Does that already exist in another dimension of life?

Why is it so difficult to find truth and ruffle through all the contradictions set before us?

Why does history repeat itself? What is the purpose of relentless cycles?

Why are we burdened with abstract concepts, such as emotions, morals, and rules? What causes us to work against one another, making it necessary to define a set of "commandments" or laws or feel distrust or pain?

Why do we create out of nothing? How is it that our muses come from these negative points of existence or even the elated moments of life? Why is your best poem written in a moment of suicidal tendency? Why is the song born during an emotional breakdown? Why is a painting inspired by a gracious moment?

What is the purpose of functioning in the manner in which we function? What are the benefits and how are we hindered? And what could improve it? Why does it always have to be a compromise?

Categories: Thoughts, Art

4 Comments

Reply Before the Solstice

10:19 AM on January 28, 2010

First of all let me say that life is this way, because we accept it. And worse, we accept that we cannot change it, and say things like, "That's life!", and "You have to face reality". Others as you eluded too, say that God made it that way, or it is because we sin, or Satan rules the world as others we know say, but usually their solution is that God is going to fix it someday. Yet their lives more than not seem to say, they don't really care or believe that God will do anything at all, they accept this life and their mundane, uneventful, meaningless death.
I am with you on this one baby, and I grapple with these issues everyday. I think that we, while we are living should seek to solve or transcend these problems, even our gradual aging and death. This shit is not reality. Please! Believe this! Break on through to the other side and help do what really needs to be done, save mankind.
As far as flesh and spirit, I think that eventually, after the spirit has slain the flesh, or the flesh has killed itself, that flesh and spirit can start to learn to get along together. In a quantum reality, where everything is viewed as just an opinion, even death. The flesh and spirit no longer quarrel, but they recognize each others value. They are like siblings who are jealous of one another. At that point the flesh is no longer a hindrance. Your spirit can help you to travel to Saturn to hang out in crystal palaces with eternal astral beings in your dreams, and then your flesh can allow you to eat at Doc Chey's.
As far as humanity is right now, I think that the conditions are being created that will allow us "believers" to be able to preserve our current flesh bodies and brains, ect. and not go through the painful reincarnation process anymore. I personally never want to do that again! Search your soul, do you want to go through death and rebirth again? Haven't you learned enough already? If not, let's learn together, I want you Nadia, to live forever, I don't want your vessel to go into the dark.

Reply Kristin

10:12 PM on January 30, 2010

I think that science should play a bigger part in these types of questions. I quite frankly think that the main thing that drives us, our everyday perceptions, thoughts, drive to "succeed" etc. are all a type of illusion that we unwittingly thrust upon ourselves. Friction occurs because everyone's illusion is of course varied, yet we all feel that we have some uniformed image of what our "purpose in life" is.

maybe we should re-examine our perceptions of "intelligence" in other species. They don't have these questions that we do. Yet, they still live on. Stress free. Some even creating art.

That guy selling poems in Little 5 could possibly have it better than anyone. Why can't we just tap out of the struggle?

Reply Alex Aaron PhD

07:27 PM on February 07, 2010

"while our bodies get weaker and more contaminated and more rigid and less attractive"

thats only for women. most men get better looking with age. also we tend to get LESS rigid. ha!