cult of counting day 3: the house of bullshit

so grateful i know my only job
is to count and the rest

just falls
away so grateful i know that when i count
it flows

today my client told me she was paying me
$100 more than i expected

and my brother survived cancer
even though he was at
death’s door

and when i count

i feel better and i know that
there is nothing besides right now

when i count i remember it’s only
ever

going to be right now and the
rest just doesn’t matter

when i count the resistance
just

goes away

it feels like smoking some good
bud
or eating some good shrooms

the resistance just goes away
the

shit
you thought you cared about
just

drifts

drips

drips down the side of your
architecture like
a sharp icicle

melting

and then if you let
the icicle melt long enough
it starts to take your architecture
with it

the walls

the scaffolding the
bullshit you’ve built around
who you really are

the persona
the conditions
pretty soon if you let
the icicle melt long enough

spring comes

the ground upon which
you built your house
of bullshit

slips like sand
grain by grain
number by number

into the center of nothingness
into the pit of
dark matter that exists between
all the molecules of our lives

and then it is just you

a fresh plot

a luscious plot
a giving plot a

fertile plot from which you
can choose to build anything
and from this vantage point you
realize there was never any
reason
to build that house
from which the

icicles hung

no need to shut out the
truth of who you are
to keep the god out because you

are afraid or you’re trying
to fit yourself in a mold

buy a house
build a house

born
school
married
house
kids
work
old
die

be like everyone else
fit yourself into a box
work for the man
waste your life doing something
that you don’t love

something that doesn’t thrill you
to get money to pay for the

BULLSHIT HOUSE YOU’VE BUILT AROUND THE TRUTH

but when i count
the house melts
like grains of sand

and then all that’s left is me
and from that standpoint

anything is possible
without all constraints of
misbelief

without resistance

anything seems possible

without the seed of doubt
life feels fun and exciting

invigorating
mysterious

but always on my side and when i know
all i have to dois

is count to enjoy life
everything seems a lot easier
when i can allow myself

to just slip into the moment
and enjoy the beingness

of it

life seems a lot easier

let it all go and let
life fill int he blanks

and that is my power

my power is in allowing my
plot to grow
to flourish

without my intervention
not to protect my plot

my power

from itself

to force it deep inside
behind walls so
others don’t see it

and ridicule it

my power is in my allowing
my plot to grow to flourish

allowing my seeds
to rise toward the sun

allowing myself
the only true calling life

rising toward the sun

and when i build an
architecture of bullshit
around the truth

i can’t rise toward the
light because i

block it out

but when i count
the sand melts the house away and
soon there is a crack

and a sliver of sun gets into the
house and the house says

what who am i
no i am melting wtf who i am i

who are you without this house
around you you are no one!!

you are no one without a box
to fit yourself into!!

you will be nothing if i’m gone
better stop counting now
and rebuild me

rebuild me now so you can live
but don’t listen to the house

who listens to advice
from a house?!

listen to you
you are not the house
you are the plot of land
that the house
is built on

you are the earth
you are fertile earth
you are the energy of the
earth
you are the energy that

made
the
earth

that is you
not a damn house

and all the stress in your life
comes from trying to maintain the house

the facade

imagine the sense of freedom
that comes with every grain of
the house of sand slipping away
into nothing and then

no house
no worries

no architecture
nothing to uphold
no standards to meet

no expectations to fill

no house
no worries

no architecture
no worries

no lies
no expectation
of something outside of
you to make you feel
better

only the energy of the earth
only the soil
the rare
bare
dirty
energetic

potential

that is what you are
potential

not something that gets built and
then torn down

not something that
dies and then is born

you are

eternal
potential

and when you are able to
let the house of lies
slip away you are
able to fully feel the power
of that potential

the potential
to rise toward the sun
get the house
the fuck out of the way
and feel yourself

naturally

move toward the light

nothing is wrong
nothing is bad
you don’t have to protect yourself
from life

i don’t have to protect myself
from life i am one with life
i am one with life and i trust the
process i trust the

potential of this here and now
i trust the potential of
this

event horizon

underneath every
architecture of bullshit
is an event horizon

let all the beliefs go
all the negative shit you think about
people and situations

that is your house

resisting
that is a house
that is a wall
a box to climb into

and be comfortable

worry

is
a
house

a
jail

and it’s not my job
to tear down the house
it’s my job
to allow the
numbers to
take the house away with them

grain
by
grain