Managing the bubble

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You must be very circumspect in managing your bubble. The most dangerous thing is to collect some food from the outside. You must not remain burdened with weights you can’t carry in the bubble, you must not consume all your forces and not be able to come back as a result. You must not become entangled with providers. Providers are particularly dangerous in that thay may contaminate the nourishment in the bubble. Here the caution must be extreme. Providers might want to enter your bubble. This must be avoided as a mortal threat. Spiritual food must be taken in very neat containers (books, recordings, newspapers and magazines). You have learned with experience not to feed much on newspapers. You should not get involved too much in what happens ouside the bubble. The phone also must be spared, it may hide critical disruptions of your living environment: the bubble is everything you have…

My editing. I was also trying to do some humor, although "galgenhumor" that is "humor of the gallows", the jokes you try when you are going to be executed.

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It looks walks like English, it talks like English, but it ain't English.

Are you talking about personal space or a sanitized area?

i could not agree with you more. 100%. who here really allows themselves to step outside of thier safety zone anyway? the bubble is all we got.

With me, more of a mirrored glass bubble that prevents me from seeing others the right way and vice-versa, than a safety bubble.

"Painted cakes do not satisfy hunger."
-Rass Dass's "Be Here Now" Ch.4 pg.1

As we used to say, "half a bubble off center."

Well, do you know Italian?

Are you volunteering as editor?

I tried to edit myself the post.

As for the real thing we are missing, we are starving.

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Is WP part of the painted cake? May be not, if it helps a little to survive.

"Painted cakes..." refers to the fact that spiritual enlightenment cannot be aquired through books. Direct experience is required.
Books and other writings can support or facilitate direct experience, but they are not the experience.

It's like when the master points to the moon and his dog looks at his hand. The master and his hand are the painted cake. The moon...

I am in favor of books, fables, fiction and movies as a way to point to the moon, or at least to protest for its absence in the sky. I think good fiction or poetry should be this.

"It's only a paper moon."

No, it's a metaphor.

OK, it's only a metaphor moon.

(Messes up the song, though.)