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Apathy

by Monday, March 27th, 2006.

On the farm we live only on the purest level. We never think. We only do what needs doing. We plant. We harvest. We eat. We plant again. In the intervals, we do nothing. We sit in silence.

Some of us have only just arrived, while some of us have been here for our whole lives. But regardless the duration of our stay, we are all here for the same reason: to live free of the bonds of anything that is not the most basic necessity of persistence. We do not bother ourselves with the outside world because it only breeds dissatisfaction.

There is nothing to be gained from a sense of gain. Any concept of anything larger than the immediate necessities is extraneous. We strive to experience life in its true and unadulterated form, free of constructs, concepts, and relative perceptions. Our only goal is to live in perfect harmony with our own instinctual nature.

On occasion others, from the outside, come to visit us and experience our way of life. A few of them choose to stay but most of them are too attached to the transient pleasures of the outside world. They get bored. They do not understand that true fulfillment arises from not seeking fulfillment in the first place. All of the answers lie right in front of us.

In these modern times, fraught with petty attachment and undirected passion, it’s hard for people to see the value of the way that we live. They always demand some kind of explanation. They do not understand that the existential platform on which we rest is one of self-evidence.

They always crave something "more" than what they actually need without realizing that nothing "more" will help to fill the gaping voids within them. All their arguments are baseless, and all their priorities unfounded. They do not realize this. We, of course, do. If all arguments are baseless then do not argue. If all cares are unfounded then caring will only lead to frustration. So do not care.

Sometimes the people who erringly choose to cut their visit short accuse us of delusion. Fools. They cannot possibly see that they are the ones living in delusion. They say that we are missing out on many "fundamental aspects of the human experience." How can they truly believe that their shallow and superfluous endeavors are vital to the process of life?

We do not let ourselves be swayed by such confused prattle. For we know that ours is the only way to liberation. Why involve one’s self with silly social interactions when all that they lead to is pain and suffering? They are the ones who are missing out by insisting on pulling the wool over their own eyes. They are wrong. We are right. So let them go their foolish ways while we remain in constancy.

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