mendicancy

Note: New word of the day -----------> mendicancy = "1 : the condition of being a beggar; 2 : the practice of begging"

Pathic understandings spiraling around
The madman makes the transition
From the dreams at night
Into the dreams of the day
Spiraling inward and outward
Cuckoo ... cuckoo

As Being grasps existence-being-world,
It is no use seeking deliverance
In a ready-made system

Such deliverance is mere dupery
Why would I adopt truths incompatible
With my Nature?

We witness intolerable swindles:
religion, therapy, treatment, cures
One does not "convert" to India
One does not "talk themselves into well-being"

Emile Cioran instructs us to contemplate the beggar:

"He, at least, neither lies nor lies to himself:
his doctrine, if he has one, he embodies; work he dislikes,
and he proves it; wanting to possess nothing, he cultivates his impoverishment,
the condition of his freedom."

The beggar HAS nothing.
The beggar IS himself/herself.
Living from day to day, from hand to mouth ...
The others are imprisoned in their hallucinations of security.

My psyche is delivered. Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Freud nor Doctor Finkleheimer can take credit for this.

The beggar's sloth "delivers" him from a world of fools and dupes!

Writing about the beggar:

Cioran wrote:
About renunciation he knows more than many of your esoteric works. To be convinced of this, you need only to walk out into the street ... But you prefer the texts that teach mendicancy. Since no practical consequence accompanies your meditations, it will not be surprising that the merest bum is worth more than you ...

Can we conceive a Buddha faithful to his truths and to his palace? One is not "delivered-alive" and still a land-owner. I reject the generalization of the lie, I repudiate those who exhibit their so-called "salvation" and prop it with a doctrine which does not emenate from themselves. To unmask them, to knock them off the pedestal they have hoisted themselves on, to hold them up to scorn is a campaign no one should remain indifferent to. For at any price we must keep those who have too clear a conscience from living and dying in peace.

I may have found an answer to the question, "How can we diminish the sadistic pleasure which the conventional at present derive from having the unconventional at their mercy?"

We scorn the conventional.

See The Tyranny of Public Opinion. It is related.