Some Strongly Worded Suggestions, Aka: the Rules of Magic

This post is likely to be developing for an unforeseeable amount of time. Maybe it’s finished. It’s too early to tell. You can always check back if so inclined, if only to remind yourself of the rules so that you don’t find yourself violating them. Especially not rule number 5.

1. If you intended it, it’s done. Move on to what’s next. There’s no excuse for letting your mind fixate on an aim— not if you’ve intended it properly. By properly we mean only that you have formed a clear picture in your mind of the aim, cleared out any baggage that you may have around it, and loved your result. You absolutely must let go or you’ll become the Coyote chasing after the Roadrunner. It’s most important that you be the Roadrunner. The Roadrunner isn’t worried about anything. Roadrunner isn’t plotting, manipulating, strategizing, or making any other attempts at control. That’s Coyote’s schtick and it always turns out the same way: splat. 
   
   
   
2. Fun is non-negotiable. The Field just wants to have fun, to enjoy a good lark, to experience novelty. As the adage states, if you want to have fun, be fun. Fun should be an element of every day because fun is a magnet for fun and it’s also a seed for growing fun. The act of creation wants an adventure. Be an adventure in yourself, which brings us to the next rule.
   
   
   
3. Become completely self-centered. The only territory you have any control over is your own sweet self. Don’t worry about anyone else but you because you are your only worthy project. You interact with mirrors. You do unto yourself through those mirrors. You aren’t going to fix anyone else, so stop trying and look instead in the mirror. Any mirror. What does it show you that you must address in yourself? There are no other gods. Remember always that what other people think of you is none of your business, especially considering that they don’t exist beyond their mirroring surface. 
   
   
   
4. We are the dreamers living inside of the dream. If you become lucid in a dream you have immense latitude to alter it, so alter it to be a habitat worthy of you. Perhaps you’ll want to indulge in great pleasure, beauty and fun. Perhaps you’ll prefer to indulge in the life of an ascetic. Do what you will. There is no more reason to indulge in wearing rags under the bodhi tree than there is to wear metallics in the garden. No less either. So, just pick what you want and go. Every man and every woman is a star of their own play. As such, don’t attempt to write anyone else’s play. You have plenty to challenge yourself with in your own play if it’s to be any good at all. 
   

   
   
5. There are no rules. Well, beyond the rules stated here, anyway, which are really just strongly worded suggestions. There are some reminders that should be remembered and reminded of by oneself. What you do, you do to yourself, so doing messed up stuff is not recommended. There are no rules, but there can be unintended consequences if one doesn’t consider the one source of all existence, a force that is not a rule, but the very condition of reality. Love. You’re free to do what you want any old time, but this is where unintended consequences can errupt. You have free will to violate the principle of Love, but the vibration at the heart of all existence, both physical and otherwise will not change. It’s the fundamental condition of existence. That’s all and that won’t change no matter what you do so take it into account to the same degree that an airplane pilot takes gravity into consideration. 
   
   
6. Give up. Surrender. Relax.There’s nothing for you to become, no grand self-improvement scheme to be entered into. You are a timeless, eternal and perfect being who willingly entered into a maze in the dark with no memory of having done so simply for the grand game of seeing if you could, under the circumstances that you elected to build into the maze, remember yourself. You’re here to remember yourself. There may be a Coyote in your mind that has you convinced that there are many conditions for you to do whatever it is you aim to do, but Coyote is a trickster. It’s best not to take advice from Coyote because he’ll just sell you some self-help books or tell you to join a cult or follow some guru. Suffice it to say his advise will waste your time at the very least. There is nothing outside of you but mirrors and nothing inside of you but you. You are the everything. Already. Relax. Surrender. Give up.