The way
that most doctors,
hospitals, family
and friends
have tried to help
and heal
people with severe mental problems,
like schizophrenia and bi-polar,
is to try
to get such people
to be normal,
to follow the normal way,
but such people
are not normal
because they have
a fundamentally different kind
of chemistry
than what I would call
normal,
so it's the old
square peg
in a round hole thing,
so I think
that the only way
to help and heal
someone with these severe mental problems,
is to point out the way
that is their way,
no matter how eccentric
or strange,
but the problem then arises
that society
can't usually accept
someone who is that different,
so many of us
with these difficult problems
have to leave the world
in a sense,
much like a nun
would join a convent.
The art process
begins with a concept,
then the concept
is realized
and the realization
is documented,
then the documentation
is distributed
to a place
where it is displayed,
and the documentation
has a form
which expresses something
that acts
as an instrument
to bring about
a like
or a dislike
in the observer,
and then
the next step
may be
buying and selling,
and this process
applies to many other
aspects of life,
so cool.
Zen has
all these ways
which it thinks
can help
to make life good
for people,
and they involve
a lot of tricky
brain tricks
that make people think
that everything's good
and that
they are in
Nirvana,
but I have found
after about
forty years
of studying Zen,
that when life is good,
indeed,
life is good,
but when life is bad,
life is just bad,
so, it's the same
as I always knew,
right from the beginning.
I have a disease
which is called
BDS
or Bad Day Syndrome,
and it is caused
by BM
or Bad Moods,
and I think
we all know
about this disease
and we probably
all have it,
and the only cure
is time,
but even that
doesn't work,
because once time cures
your bad mood,
and you are in
a good mood,
time turns it back
into a bad mood,
so drugs and medicines
can help,
but they are dangerous
and should be taken
with great caution,
and they don't work, really,
anyway,
so the ancient wise ways,
like yoga, Zen, and qigong
can help,
but they don't work,
because their effects
disappear
as soon as you stop
doing them,
with only a little curative power
that lasts,
so the new wise ways,
like tapping, bio-energetics, and reflexology
can help,
but they work
just like the ancient wise ways,
so time
is the only answer,
but that doesn't work
either.
