How can one focus or meditate on Eternity?

 The Arts

There is great confusion about gender in the arts these days. What is a woman? What is a man? Should they be doing something for each other? Or shouldn't they? Or maybe it's best they stay away from each other. It's a whole lot of bull snout if you ask me. Sex drives the car. In fact, it still drives everything, the bus, the train, the airplane, the meter maid, the mad hatter, the happy hatter, me, you and the wind. The answer my friend is giving head in the wind. How can anyone be expected to meditate on Eternity while sex is still around?

  

   So, what should be our guide? How does one begin the journey toward knowledge? First, think of the basic problem you hope to solve. Then write it, in the simplest form. Then I advise that you close your eyes now, continuing to focus on the problem. Eyes closed; you focus on the light coming through your eyelids, its movement, its form. Like watching clouds, you briefly see an image of something in the light. Tells yourself to remember what that image is. Now open your eyes. Below your written query of the basic problem write down what your closed-eyed image was. Add a description if you like. This is to be considered clue number one. 

     The next step is research. Of course you can read yourself to death with wikipedia, print and television and movies, but research must also involve what I call 'hands on'. This means you must seek a personal experience with the natures of living things, be they human and other mammals or birds or insects or ducks or fish,... (to be continued)