Are We One Huge Cock-up?

Do we just live in one huge cock-up,
or is the way we live the result of deliberate deception?

If everything seems a cock-up rather than deliberate,
does that mean that we are all actually stupid?

Is the cock-up a deception?
Is there more to the cock-up?

Do top chess players just make random moves?
Do corporations make things that no one will buy?
Is market research pointless?
Does technocracy follow all our action for fun?
When we prepare a meal, do we just throw things into a pot?

If we think that things just happen, we are stupid.
If we do not know why we do and say things, we are stupid.

The only way not to be stupid is to know
how our own mind works.

Meditation is the start of taking the cock-up out of life.
Once we see clearly, we realise that everything comes about
through a cause, and never a cock-up.

Things only seem to be a cock-up because of our lack of vision
that makes us fall for the cock-up every time.

Have you heard the old boxing term, the “one-two”?
We pretend to go one way – the feint – but deliberately go another.
Just because we don’t do a one-two doesn’t mean others don’t.

We all have ulterior motives, even when we’re being nice.
“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”
The quicker we learn others’ tricks of the trade, the less we are fooled.

Enlightenment is about how fast we learn, pick-up and run with with realisation.
Life is very short.