Living in Joy
My name is Sugar, and I’m one super happy dude (was and is).
My Mom is writing this book for me because I can’t write. It’s like one of those channel guys who, after they die, they say things through other people.
Well, it’s something like that anyway. I don’t know what you call it when the other guy was a cat like me. Well, my body was a cat body anyway, but I wasn’t just any old cat. I know stuff. My Mom knew that. She used to call me her son, her best friend, and (here’s the real give-away) her sadhu ram. That’s like saying I was her guru (that’s a teacher of Truth, in case you didn’t know), and that’s why she said my book should include some of the things I taught her.
The fact is, I’m just like anyone else who inhabits (or inhabited) a body. Which is probably why my Mom and I can make a book like this together. (My Mom understands this kind of stuff.) See, this book isn’t a sloppy bunch of sentimental mush. It’s about Truth. Truth about what everyone (including YOU) really is.
You might say there are two parts to being a Being.
One part is a kind of coalescence of “the
really smart stuff” that makes up the body that you have. It’s
everywhere (in fact It’s the only thing there really is) —
It’s inside of you, outside of you, and even in places where there’s
nothing at all (except for “the really smart stuff" which is
invisible in that situation).
Sometimes “the really smart stuff" takes forms and sometimes
it doesn’t.
The other part of being a Being is YOU, the real YOU.
Without YOU, “the really smart stuff" wouldn’t coalesce into a human form (in your case) for you to live in (me, I had a cat form).
Then, of course, there’s what you think you are. That’s really a third part that isn’t very real; it’s just how most humans think of themselves (or how they think other’s think of them). Mostly, they call this “who” they are, which isn’t really wrong, but it’s not what this book is about.
(I had Mom make the word “YOU” look big so you’d get the difference between “the real YOU,” “the really smart stuff," and the you that you think you are.)
Sugar Pie, you’re getting off to a pretty heavy start. Why don’t you tell them something about JOY. That is, after all, what you named your book.
OK, OK. Alright already. Patience, please. I never wrote a book before. But this is my book and I get to say whatever I want whenever I want, don’t I? Even if it’s not “organized” the you way humans seem to like things.
OK, Sugar Pie. You’re right. Do your thing. However, if I may be so bold, may I suggest that you start from the beginning so that the people who read your book will have some background?
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