He Who Attempts To Help You Is Your Enemy

What the world is doing

Is what the world has always done.

 

The structure

And the dynamics

Have not changed.

 

They have only intensified.

 

There are the speakers

And the listeners.

 

The teachers

And the students.

 

The “thought leaders”

And the followers.

 

The guru’s

And the disciples.

 

The speakers,

Teachers,

“Thought leaders,”

And guru’s . . .

 

Are attempting to “help” . . .

 

The listeners,

The students,

The followers,

And the disciples.

 

The former

Are the “helpers.”

 

The latter

Are the “helpees.”

 

The helpers

Spout their hacks,

Methods,

Prescriptions,

Techniques,

5-steps to happiness,

6-steps to compassion,

3-steps to good health.

 

The helpers

Spout their green tea

Mixed with blue tea

With a touch of lemon warmed to 78 degrees

And 3.7 drops of honey.

 

The helpers

Spout their book recommendations.

About greek philosophers,

And stoics,

And intellectual and important-sounding names.

 

They furl their eyebrows

And massage their face into a stiff and lifeless state

So as to appear . . .

“Stoic.”

 

The helpers

Spout their “mental models,”

And “first order principles,”

And “ninth order this and that,’

The more smart and didactic and intellectual-sounding,

The more proud they are to spout it.

 

The helpers say,

Do this morning routine.

Do that exercise.

Eat this.

Drink that.

Don’t do this before 8pm.

Don’t do that before 7am.

Practice this.

Rehearse that . . .

 

The helpers

Have podcasts with each other.

They team up to provide

Super-charged prescriptions.

 

The helpers have always said,

Do this

And you will feel better.

 

Do that

And you will get this.

 

Here is what you do:

You take this and that,

Combine it on the night of a full moon

And quack like a duck 17 times

And voila . . .

You will be . . . “happy.”

Or “more healthy.”

Or “more self-actualized.’

Or “optimized.”

Or “more in flowwwwww.”

 

The helpees

Have always been

Helpees.

 

The helpers

Are actually helpees

To their own helpers.

 

The helpees

Will listen to anything

So long as the helper

Has a large following,

And “famous” guests on his podcast.

 

They will read his book recommendations.

They will ingest the precisely-warmed lemon drops.

They will howl at the moon at midnight.

They will jump into an ice bath at the crack of dawn.

They will improve their “morning routines.”

They will get a rolling pin to flatten their face into a “stoic” appearance.

 

The helpees say,

“Yes sir. Since you are the helper, I will do everything you say. Keep the prescriptions coming.”

 

In this way,

The helpee feels somewhat good about himself.

 

He feels good

That at least he is “doing something.”

 

He is getting “more spiritual.”

He is “improving himself.”

His blood chemistry is “getting better.”

His chakras are getting opened.

His meditation sessions are getting longer.

 

He is making

The helpers “proud.”

 

Yet after he has warm-lemon-dropped himself,

And howled at the moon on 26 consecutive nights as prescribed,

And chakra’d himself,

And meditated longer,

And morning routine’d himself,

And read all the helper’s book recommendations,

And 5-stepped himself,

And 3-stepped himself,

And 6-stepped himself,

And “stoicized” himself . . .

 

Why does he still need . . . help?

 

If these things worked,

Then why is he still chasing happiness,

And peace,

And freedom,

Decades later?

 

And why is the helper

Still chasing them also?

 

Does the helper truly mean to say

That all the warm-lemon-dropping

And howling,

And meditating,

And ice-bathing,

And stoicizing,

Was not enough?

 

What is The Truth?

 

Such things are done

For typically noble intentions.

 

But the helper

And the helpee

Are both victims

Of prescription.

 

The one who is deeply interested

In “helping,”

Is actually interested

In “teaching”

And wanting an audience,

And wanting to be heard.

 

It is all

An ego game.

 

And for the game

To provide juice,

There must be an audience

To prescribe to.

 

Understand this:

 

Would nature truly create a man

That is so incomplete,

That it leaves the completion

To other people?

 

Is nature so incompetent

As to create a man so broken and fragmented,

That he needs warm-lemon-dropping,

And howling,

And meditating,

And ice-bathing,

And morning-routining,

And book reading,

And guru listening,

And prescription following,

To become whole?

 

The world

Is a circus.

 

People are chasers,

Looking for a place to park their brains.

 

Helpers,

By way of their prescriptions,

Extend the ignorance and suffering

Of human beings.

 

In pursuit

Of their own ego gratification.

 

The Truth

Is the only thing there is.

 

And it has no use

For helpers

Or helpees.

 

 

Namaste.