Initiation through the Eye

Is it a favor to me, or a favor to you?

There are many people who see without seeing, it is said.

What good is a word if it is not caught out? A fish in the sea, remains unknown.

What good is a sea? Man can not traverse it for long, without a vessel.

What good is a vessel upon the sea? To reach other places which are all the same?

So with a net, fish are caught, but decay if not devoured soon, and what results either way is waste, except that the man of the sea on the ship may live a little longer.

Life is not travel, but eating and sh*tting. The seaman does not sh*t in or on the vessel, but back to where the fish was caught, the sea.

Another vessel, may be intent on catching fish, but having followed the ship ahead of it, finds only sh*t to be caught, hawling it onto their boat.

There are some who have only just started to fish, and so they wonder, saying ” ah, these must be fish, I have heard they smell bad! ”

Now the Eye.

If the Eye were the Sun, and if it were followed, everyday the traveler would turn back, after going forward, and again and again would they move towards it, stand still, then head back, until it is dark again and they rest, resuming their journey the next time the sun rises.

There was a traveler who once climbed a high hill, and having reached the top of it, found that the other side of it went down again. ” I was expecting something more ”

Like what?

He headed back down, carrying something more profound than he even understood, though it was with him.

Hope is what I was born with. Hope is dispelled by faith dissapointed. You did not leave the peak without a gift.

What? I went up the hill, finding that there is Nothing on the other side but descent or stagnation. The same that I can do up there, I can do down here, which is to be dissapointed.

No need to be so sour, because I have what you may seek.

Initiation through the Eye.

I have never sought it, and why would it be what I seek?

Well what drove you to climb that hill?

It was a desire for something more, something better, it was hope, and then faith, and then dissapointment.

Only Initiation through the Eye can give you that!

How?

All you have to do is be looking for something which you know.

What do you mean?

​​​​​Do you have any food allergies?

Not that I know of.

Well pretend that you did, so that Soy was of interest to you. Wouldn’t you look for it and become keen on identifying it?

Yes, I guess so, only to survive.

Why do you wish to live?

I don’t know, I suppose I don’t.

Do you think that death is better than life?

No.

What is death?

I don’t know, nothing I suppose.

Same that you found up on the Hill?

No, on the Hill there was nothing of particular interest.

And in Death?

I suppose Nothing.

Nothing of particular interest?

Even less.

Even worse?

I can’t say.

A hill is more comforting, since you can come down again, would you seek confinement from which there is no return or the risk of such?

No.

Even if it differs from this state of life as it is?

Yes, this life is at least something, more to do.

Why do anything?

​​​​I don’t know, just because it is better than nothing.

​​​​​​How do you feel when you have nothing to do?

Bored, listless, restless.

No​​​​t relaxed?

Not for long.

So you are craving something.

I suppose so.

What is it you are craving?

I don’t know, something.

Anything?

Most things don’t seem good enough.

Can you think of anything that does seem good enough?

Something important.

Like identifying soy in order to live?

This reminds me of the hill.

Do you want to die?

Do you want me to die?

That is a good question, but it depends on what you say next. Do you wish to be Initiated through the Eye?

No, I will find my own way in life, I don’t need to play your games. Now how do you like me?

I never did.

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Well, he didn’t go for it, how about you?