The Austere Teachings

I remember back in the Eighties, when times were different, let's face it -, but still though, the underlying structures and dynamic forces of financial and economic success were exactly the same ones then as they are now...

I remember that the worst thing that entrepreneurs did back then (others did it too, though less obviously), was to let early 'success' go to their heads.

Aaaah. Night out in the Hampton's
for the rich kids. Literally is a private
music festival in the Hampton's with a
celebrity DJ.

There were a few older people around me back then and they forced that insight onto me - and so, neither shall we permit that kind of thinking now. Since we ourselves have all become the older heads. Am I right?

So I'm really trying to find rather stupid things to post here as 'accompanying pics!'

...Nothing that will inflame foolish desires to do rash things. Well I mean we can do 'rash things' but just not too soon. Because then that would be foolish and rash.

Remember, when you look even at the iconic screen 'dumb blonde' - Marilyn Monroe - she was not actually dumb, was an avid reader and very intelligent in reality. Her personal friends included the top leading writers and intellectuals of the day - Sidney Skolsky, for instance. Sidney basically 'discovered' Marilyn and sent her to Howard Hughes for the necessary backing of 'substance' as well as the cinema and studio 'know-how.'

Skolsky recognized that Monroe had some super important 'key' ingredients. These were really, the vital ones, and they were not her 'vital statistics.'

Simple 'dress watch.'

And so, although we might act 'dumb' but still we shall not be rash.

There's no denying, is there, that it's easy to spend half the night ensconced in your brand new Lamborghini, feeling quite cossetted in there, while at the same time let's say -, you 'have no friends.' But -, you totally feel very happy. And I've been there. It's almost a better kind of 'happy' too! 'They' don't want to know you, but, er, they are not the ones with the swish car!

So it's really a complicated thing, 'moralizing' about money, or success, or 'how to get on with people... One is ever in danger of sheer hypocrisy.

It resolves like this: '...who listened to sweet sounds and gazed upon fair colors, but would not tolerate the existence of absolute beauty.'

The crucial thing there is the 'would not tolerate.' I mean how come 'they' would not even tolerate?

So you have to ask yourself, what is it about the proposition itself, that certain people, well it is in fact almost all people (you will find), absolutely reject and detest (no, hate is the right word)... Certainly it is the 'something absolute' - but also it is the thing which you have, or may have, or might have, and that they will never have since they deny its very existence in the first place.

Very simple soup - 
consomme with fino sherry. The
sherry is in the soup, as well
as in the glass.

You see the matter is not 'if,' or 'whether' there is such a thing as 'absolute anything;' it is that people start out denying it anyway before that are even in a legitimate position to adjudge. ...Even before they have experienced sufficient of life and of ideas, to be able to say with any real thorough background that such a thing is possible because they are able to assess from degrees of variations that they have seen and from many examples of them.

There are people too who, having arrived at 'a certain age' will readily let you know oh that for sure but they have had plenty of experience, probably more than you too (this is a kind of fundamental intended insult of course).

They will never permit you to call them intolerant and closed-minded, because after all, they are merely asking for 'proof and evidence' from you or from the Universe - and is that really so much to ask?

Well, but look - the Universe is a whole damn lot more intolerant and closed-minded than you or I and especially 'them.' In terms of the standard ways people think.

The 'austere teaching' is - you do what the Universe tells you to do, not the other way around. You can 'imagine' all you like about the 'Law of Attraction' but trust me it ain't happening.

One of the 'austere' teachings is: 'we don't break the rules,' That is, the real rules.

We are poor, and we are stoopid, and we have nothing to show anyone, and nothing to teach anyone. Because we know nothing and everyone else always knows better, let's certainly agree on that.

Simple simple buttons...
...and cuff-links.

We are not ensconced in our furs or our Lamborghini - and we are miserable because the world is a terrible place on the whole. And we still have few friends.

Okay we have some friends... And they're not all miserable like us.

You know, funny thing - those friends will be friends, um, absolutely, and outside of time itself.

I know some of you don't believe in God. Find the 'God of Friendship' though, and you will find God.