I’m elevated not because I elevated myself but because I elevate myself

 

You’re lowly not because you’re low but because you don’t elevate yourself

 

The moment I ceased doing more would be the moment I would be like you — useless and lowly and miserable

 

The moment you did more would be the moment you lifted yourself from the ground, high in the sky

 

I’m learned not because I learned but because I’m learning

You’re a stupid ignorant fool not because you didn’t learn but because you’re not learning

 

There is nothing I could do or learn

that would stop me from doing

stop me from learning

thus I continue doing and learning

 

You’ve done nothing and learned nothing

but if you started doing and started learning

you’d be doing and learning

by tomorrow you would have done an immense number of things and would have learned an immense amount of knowledge

and you would still be doing and learning

the moment you stopped would be the moment you became stupid, ignorant, useless and lowly

 

There is nothing we could do or learn

that would absolve us from doing

absolve us from learning

that would deliver us in a complete perfect state of HAVING-LEARNED and HAVING-DONE

the moment we cease doing we are just as useless

the moment we cease learning we are just as ignorant

 

for there is no destination

and there is no starting point either

every day you’re either doing or not doing

learning or not learning

you’re either open or closed

you’re either outside or inside

you’re either active or inactive

you’re either alive or dead

 

indeed

this is a matter of life and death

life which is ever-changing ever-flowing

and death which is stagnant and dead and finished

 

this is the truth of the material world and the spiritual

(ultimately there is no difference is there?)

spiritually you’re moving or not

you’re permeated with energy or fucking dead

and in this vulgar real world you’re either useful or fucking useless

you either learn and become more competent and stay up to date

or you’re a stupid ignorant fool

 

this is the truth of the material world and the spiritual

the moment you do you are doing

the moment you act you are active

the moment you learn you are learning

we live like (better then) the kings in the past

we slave like the slaves in the past (more so, considering stress)

see how relative this all is?

you’re either a stupid inert fool, knowledgeable but stupid, an ugly thoughtless product of the culture and circumstance, helpless against the whims of the world

or you are doing

learning

moving

and that’s all there is to it