What difference does it make who says it? What's in a
name? I'll just be John Buck right now and maybe John
Doe tomorrow.
You hear people tell others "get real!", "be practical!",
"use your common sense!", etc. They generally are
implying that the one they are speaking to isn't being
realistic, isn't facing reality or the truth of the matter or
how it really is right then and there. Possibly the speaker
isn't doing so either.
Reality-based? Is that the actual reality now or based on
yesterday's, last year's reality? Is it based on a few bits
and pieces of a reality or a great amount of a reality?
Reality or being alive is right now for all practical purposes
or scientifically speaking - a moment ago is gone and a
moment from now doesn't yet exist. Any reality happening
to you happens now.
Awareness, being a 'watch-tower' from moment to moment
is the only way a human organism is going to pick up on or
catch any amount of reality occurring in each actual moment
or the moment - the only moment or 'life'.
The 'store-house' of all past experience, knowledge, training,
skills, etc. must sit quietly or be on stand-by while this full
awareness is in operation. A 'processing' goes on below
the surface not getting in the way of full awareness.
Responses to this or that or that and that come up
automatically, wholely, completely and the variations, the
combinations are ever fresh, new, hot off the press so to
speak. One is being really real - no phoneying, no half-assing,
no 'hollywooding', no 'plastic'. Any deception, tricks, etc.
are done naturally - they are 'you' or the totality of this
particular human entity or organism.
There can be no other, no thing over me - no master, no
guru, no governor, no fine woman ( man ), no God, no
country, no expensive car, etc. as "all that" or any of that
would divide me, conflict me, weaken me and disrupt this
full vital awareness, this wholeness of being.
Sure I bow before the king and so on....the playing along a
bit is nescessary and useful - it's a part of the whole self-
defense or "survival package". It's not being phoney - It's
being like Christ when he said "Agree with thine adversary
while in the way with him lest he deliver thee up to the
jailor". Christ wasn't some sheltered, pampered square-ass
mfer - he had "street-smarts" and was worldly-wise.
If one desires to be based in reality one must shed and
shred much so that one can travel light and be much more
aware. Awareness is the 'flame', the 'aliveness' or really
being alive.