The original Poem was “The Little That”. A teacher of myopic Western Conditioning, changed all references of “That”, to “Hat” instead, thinking that’s what ‘naive young David’ meant. Very sad that the ancient Knowing, continues to be hidden by manUnkind’s abdication.
Translated for those who are Initiating
The little That has been.
[an instance of creation called first/last name self, is initiating, realizing Love amidst Play, questioning whether and how to continue]
The little That is [remains] in Society.
[an instance of creation, remembering Life’s Design and Goal, willfully Plays Hide and Seek]
The little That is not moving.
[an instance of creation shows ‘other’ non-doing by exiting Life’s play through Awakened Passivity, yet remaining to offer Compassion for (each) Self]
The little That is sad.
[an instance of creation has fully Remembered its Origin as THE creatOR, and Accepts why it choses to Forget each time in the ‘wipeout-event’ labeled death … be-cause the ultimate sadness is to realize as ONE, why Othering-company is The Goal.].
… why, this time as David, did SELF hold on to remembering, avoiding a full wipe-out of Knowing? This is Great Mystery “playing” out across David’s own lifetime.
The little That is sad because the little That is lost.
[An instance of creation questions which ‘sadness’ is worse? being completely alone as THE creator, or being ‘a self’ amidst the strife-full plot Initated by SELF, to “get lost” by choice, so as to Exist and Know]
A man was wearing the That.
[An instance of creation (whether Human, Animal, Mineral or Plant) has given up on the Persona, and has fully returned to Remembering its origin AS The creatOR.]
The That fell off the man and landed in the woods.
[The Persona (life pattern / role) reoccurs and continues with the next instance of creatOR as part of creatION comprising Creator in the only context it knows (in The Middle) … ReMembering to Forget
or as “Humanity” currently hides and seeks to understand …
‘as a forgetful entity residing on the 3rd planet from a (self-realized intense energy source labeled) Star labeled ‘Sun’ in a cluster of stars labeled as ‘a Galaxy’, known further as ‘The Milky Way’, which identifies with Time by one rotation of a complex-rock labeled Earth, counting the days until its own impending end.
Enjoy! dear next-ACTor. You are creatING all of this for your own sake. Bravo! proclaims the Patrons who are also ACTing in the Play without kNowing it].
At age 5, it was apparent what PRE conditioning, FULLY Aware and Connected Remembering looked like.
When i submitted my writing as part of a coordinated Writers of Wyoming (my home town) project, it was misunderstood and “teacher” edited.
My poem was really a deep reflection expressed in a Koan, although I didn’t have the language (concepts) to protect the intention of the writing’s attempt to Affirm and Awaken Others.
My title and subject matter was THE LITTLE THAT. The overly conditioned teacher changed it to “the little HAT“, as she presumed this is what made sense and what I meant to write. She didn’t want me to look “bad”?
What i was trying to say at age 5, was “this Old Boy” (all references to ‘man’) has already seen enough of Life’s attempt to Condition This-me to believe i am just a Person-alone in a big scary world, by molding a Personal Reality (a Personality, a PersonA) around me, confining me towards beLIEving this and to begin Acting out a role in a manner consistent with what my Guardians expected. This “old boy” was saying Goodbye to the [“little that” meaning young and too weak to ‘take hold’] Persona that was being shaped for young David. This was a formal public rejection of the Game [of Life] that i had begun witnessing as early as age 4. It was a very profound moment for me internally. I recall giggling as I handed in my paper. I wonder how many fully awake people recognized the real message [intentionally] hidden under the editing of one overly conditioned “adult”?
The opening sentence was “the little that has been”. All references to “hat” should have read as “That”. “Little” meant childhood-like Innocence and Awareness of Connection to ALL, something the majority of Adults lose, by Life’s design. Any reference to “the woods” means Humanity. “Wearing the That” implies someone who was wearing a Persona, chose to leave it behind in the woods / society. Reference to “fell” really meant that SELF chose to fall, to descend into living @ a certain “level”, by forgetting who it really is, so that it might “lose control” through Othering so as to Exist and Know. “Lost” implies lost-in-Thought alone, disabling self from meaningful shared Action (intellectual paralysis).
1st Cipher Shared
A Cherished Gift
Hide, then Seek
The key point of this Koan, was to remind you, that it is in your “pursuit to regain Control”, that causes you to Forget, and thus Know [THAT] you Exist. This is the ultimate paradox and double bind of Life’s design, to ensure it achieves its goal.
The sketch marks were omitted by the ‘Teacher’, I found out later as a teenager, because they felt they were potentially racially divisive or too provoking / confusing. Yet again, conditioning OF humanity, denies a loving attempt to remind Other, who it really is. View this video for an explanation of the meaning of these and other symbols, as part of helping David NOT to forget Life’s design as he entered his own Conditioning phase within the “education system”.
Please read this Koan as a reminding of who you, by way of Othering a we-apart, truly are.
Your Persona, choosing to forget you are all of THAT which you witness as Conceptually outside of this you, this “self”, is what i was observing.
Enjoy all sorrow and bliss, for it is Why and How you are Knowing [that you are] yOUR Existing.
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