So You Want to be a Writer?
by Charles Bukowski
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don't do it.
if you have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter
searching for words,
don't do it.
if you're doing it for money or
fame,
don't do it.
if you're doing it because you want
women in your bed,
don't do it.
if you have to sit there and
rewrite it again and again,
don't do it. if it's hard work just thinking about doing it,
don't do it.
if you're trying to write like somebody else,
forget about it.
if you have to wait for it to roar out of you,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else.
if you first have to read it to your wife
or your girlfriend or your boyfriend
or your parents or to anybody at all,
you're not ready.
don't be like so many writers,
don't be like so many thousands of
people who call themselves writers,
don't be dull and boring and
pretentious, don't be consumed with self-
love.
the libraries of the world have
yawned themselves to
sleep
over your kind.
don't add to that.
don't do it.
unless it comes out of
your soul like a rocket,
unless being still would
drive you to madness or
suicide or murder,
don't do it.
unless the sun inside you is
burning your gut,
don't do it.
when it is truly time,
and if you have been chosen,
it will do it by
itself and it will keep on doing it
until you die or it dies in you.
there is no other way.
and there never was.
Excepts from “I Am That” by Nisargadatta Maharaj
"To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be.
Let your true nature emerge (Impermanence-connectedness).
Don't disturb your mind with seeking.
There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations (Dispositions, habits). The sum total of these defines the person. The person merely appears to be, (an Appearing) like the space within the pot appears to have the shape and volume and smell of the pot.
To expound and propagate concepts is simple, to drop all concepts is difficult and rare.
A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet (Awake Space)
As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does Self-awareness (Maybe just open awareness?) affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady Self-awareness, inner energies (Bodhicitta) wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.”
‘When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.’ ~Shunryu Suzuki-roshi
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| Gone Fishing |
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| True that Motha Fuuuucka! |
"Mysticism is the art of union with Reality. The mystic is a person who has attained that union in greater or less degree; or who aims at and believes in such attainment." - Evelyn Underhill
"The essence of mystical contemplation is summed in these two experiences—union with the flux of life, and union with the Whole in which all lesser realities are resumed—and these experiences are well within your reach." - Evelyn Underhill
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