Tao of Internal Alchemy by Barefoot Doctor

Author:Barefoot Doctor
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Publisher: Wayward Publications Ltd
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

FALLING BACKWARDS

Implicit in the super-charged tempo of post-modern, high-speed urbanized reality, when seen in context of the past-present-future progression of linear time within whose confines we appear to live out our daily four-dimensional existence, is an incessant drive forwards into the (projected) future, as if our salvation lies there. As if liberation – freedom from pain, suffering and restriction – xists only in the future. As if when you've made enough money to buy your subtropical hideaway, have your breasts enlarged, support the perfect lover, or employ a personal assistant to field your emails, phone calls and text messages and to pick up your dry cleaning, for example, you will at last attain salvation.

No need to rehash that same old spiritual dogma here, where I tell you that salvation – liberation from pain, suffering and restriction – does not come at some (projected) point in the future, nor at the hands of another human being, nor even in material acquisitions (though the PA would be a help).

No need to pound the point into the ground telling you that true liberation is only available here and now, this very moment (and of course during the here and now of every subsequent moment between this one and the moment of death).

No need to use this opportunity to exhort or cajole you into remembering to go within for your salvation, nor indeed induce you to partake of any such 'spiritual7 clichés.

There exists a whole raft of self-help books far more eloquent and erudite than this humble pile of words from which such perennial advice (and faux-spiritual propaganda) can be gleaned. And in any case, I’m sure by now you already know.

I won't even take this opportunity to say that if you want to survive this high-speed lifestyle intact, you must take time out each day to simply 'stop'. For as wise as that advice would appear, it is in fact impossible to achieve.

Everything in the entirety of existence is in motion. A fundamental quality of existence is, in fact, perpetual motion.

Within the bounds of four-dimensional reality, caught as you apparently are in the progression of linear time, you cannot stop. You either go forwards or you go backwards. In the world of perpetual motion there is no in-between.

Furthermore, according to the end-game Hollywood model, to fall backwards at this point in the game implies falling away from reaching your temporal goals, losing your place in the race and surrendering to entropic tendencies. Like the plane you're on going into reverse in mid-air, while on a transatlantic night flight over the wastes of Greenland during an electric storm in the dread cold of winter (I know I keep mentioning it, but am I the only one who has had to repeatedly endure that horror or am I just developing long-haul flight phobia?) the idea of falling backwards fills us with horror.

Instinctively we want only forward momentum. You can test this by standing with feet together with a sturdy catching partner three or so feet

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