A Dog and a Man Walk Into a Bar...

Outline re-write #1

Fundamental misunderstanding about all of society:

• You and I are not separate.
• My (and your) personality is not you, not me, it is a collection of attributes, but it is not you, not me.
• The not you/not me is just now.
• Just this moment that is still now. There is no past or future, there is only now. Only not separateness.
• But we just don’t realize it.
• By our very existence we only live now. All of us living now, together in this present NOW.

From this basic misunderstanding comes rating these created differences.

By assigning values to everything, then we can then DE-value those that are not like our pasted on personalities.

Once we have valued everything, then we can desire attributes and objects and things of all variety.

And from desire we learn cruelty, suffering, envy and all that stuff.

Although conjured out of fictional separateness the pain and suffering is real.

A monk asked Joshu, a Chinese Zen master: "Has a dog Buddha-nature or not?"
Joshu answered: "Mu." 

My take:
The dog and me and you are not separate.
Buddha nature is not “having”

My Sweet Little Weltanschauung

Outline for life the universe and everything
Track1

1. Assigning “value” is the starting point for our dis-union.
*The nature of value implies we are the center even if we assign higher value to others
*Recognizing there is no authority setting the "standards"
2. Does our dog have Buddha nature or not?
*Accepting otherness
*Springs from assigning value
3. Sun faced Buddha, Moon Faced Buddha
*Accepting the moment with no value
*Also connected to “value” and “worth”
4. The Platonic Ideal and the path to confusion
*Brian Eno’s grand theory
*Math is a human constructions dealing with real world physics and engineering
5. Living a fictional life
*Race, elites and ranks - all fictions
Nations, Sports and clubs
6. There is only NOW. Always has been and always will be
7. And above them all is MEANING
*Asking for “meaning” is to ask the wrong question.
8. Eight: there is surely an 8

Track2
People and society

Bits and Pieces to be tied together
Society is physical world overlaid with invisible chalk lines to give the illusion of meaning
Conversation is the carrier wave
The connection is unspoken and embedded in the carrier wave
You are not your personality
Enneagram example of recognizing the box you live in

Life The Universe and Everything, now here!

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People with rediscover the value of joyful sobriety and liberating austerity only if they relearn to depend on each other rather than on energy slaves. The price for a convivial society will be paid only as the result of a political process which reflects and promotes the society-wide inversion of present industrial consciousness.

Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich