Groovy Thinking

by Dick Richardson

I invented a term once: ‘Groovy Thinking’.

This meant thinking that was so stuck fast in a narrow groove of intransigence that it could not get out of that grove, and the deep furrows on each side if it had it really boxed in and it could not see beyond the horizon of those ridges which surrounded it, and it slept there in idyllic bliss of ignorance. This took two forms: Extreme religiosity on the one hand and Extreme hard core materialist outlook on the other. They are both the same thing —inertia, intransigence, closed minded— boxed in thinking and observing.

However, I found that real learning came ONLY when I stood in awe of the existence of things and stopped thinking for a while, and when I stopped thinking on occasions I found that other stuff could get in —revelations of teaching which did not come whilst I was engaged in thinking. And I thought hells bells, that is sure worth thinking about. So I did, and I learned quite a lot. I also learned that revelation equated with revolution, and the evolution of my awareness and understanding of things, and understanding of myself.

I also found that I could not really know what was ‘out there’ until I had come to know the real me ‘in here’. For I could not know that which I was not until such time that had come to learn what I was; what I AM. The knowledge of SELF in essence. As it is in Eternity. Do not let time erase that which is done in Eternity. So be it.

I found that existing taught one, sometimes slow and sometimes fast, but the job is getting done gradually, and one moves on from the darkness of ignorance into the light of understanding, and at the pace which one restricts ones self to by volition. Let go of the self and go with the flow; and the flow will reveal the self and that which is not the self.

It is not difficult to let go.

“There is no stairway up to heaven —
there is a slide down to it”