the little smoke & the Brujo=JUST allusions

The sense that we can have self-realization out in the wilderness is interesting to me. (though the concrete jungle remains available) Sakyamuni, the Buddha spends 6 yrs. with 5 ascetics, those who live in renunciation of the world. (stark) The perspective is that IF we must struggle to survive i.e. work, then life is worse for it in the samsara, karmic-cycle. So he sees a local girl down by the river, from the deer park in which he currently resides, & she offers him a bowl of sweet rice, which he decides to partake of. Then he sets the bowl in the river & it flows upstream: this is a sign to give the form & nature of the body the things it would require=the middle path. As a child he had reached the First Jhana, trance, the first sense of concentration cognitive of compassion, near the planting field, under a rose-apple tree. He naturally acceded to a position of just the right amount of tension, his breathing was tempered (pranayama)--the breathing yields to patterns as we promote a certain control over it, & thus affects consciousness. A centeredness! Being, a the peak of monster consciousness, the deep aside to sensory perfection. I turn upon a ritual-realized thing like attuned to the cultish don Juan's apprentice going out into the desert & "seeking" a higher ground, as conditions in the natural world would be the closest to a freed imagination (spiritual ally). Nature is allegory, in other words.