Somewhere down past Roosterspur bridge
perhaps just a trick of the light
I thought I heard the sweetest guitar
was It a rock and roll jesus
Sometimes I think
I think I understand
The Fear in the boy
The Fire in the man
Sometimes I watch
the wonder in your eyes
That and you leaving
I have memorized
That and you leaving
I have memorized
Drove all night through Sliding Rock Falls
thinking I'd find something that we'd lost
Can't remember when you stopped laughing
or when I stopped wanting to win
Sometimes I think
I think I understand
The Fear in the boy
The Fire in the man
Sometimes I watch
the wonder in your eyes
That and you leaving
I have memorized
Do you even see me now
Do you think of us still
Do I always read things in
Before a day's deliverance
On Roosterspur Bridge
Sometimes I think
I think I understand
The Fear in the boy
The Fire in the man
Sometimes I watch
the wonder in your eyes
That and you leaving
I have memorized
That and you leaving
That and you leaving
I have memorized
You
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Yes, you! So hey you, if you are reading this...
...then read on...just for fun...none of this needs to be taken seriously, but try to at least ponder it seriously...as life is a game...and a happy one where everyone always wins...but only if they choose to see that they are! xoxo. love always.
Many people advance spiritually when they "hit bottom." That means they have followed the ego to its idiotic end. If they follow the ego with great intensity, it will eventually bring them to great disaster. Their life becomes the result of their own best thinking, so there they are in a state of catastrophe of one kind or another. It is at that point that some people get humility. They say there must be a better way. Some people might even call upon God at that point and say God, I think I am in trouble.
As one stops creating stories, then one stops creating paragraphs, one stops creating sentences, one stops creating phrases, and one will see that languaging in the form of thought is coming from an energy. There is an energy in the mind that is constantly creating a stream of thoughts. You watch what is going through consciousness, like goldfish through a bowl. The thoughts are the goldfish, but you are the water, not the goldfish. The unenlightened person thinks, "I am the goldfish; I am my thoughts; I am this worry; I am this fear; I am this regret." You begin to identify where consciousness is. Consciousness is what is witnessing these thoughts. Thoughts are flowing through consciousness, and consciousness itself is invisible and has no form. You begin to identify with the observer instead of that which is observed. Anybody who does meditation knows what I am saying already.
The average person is experiencing the monitor tape of the ego's interpretation of events. They are not experiencing events as they are in reality; they are experiencing the ego's interpretation.
With humility comes the ability to laugh at oneself and become less of the victim of the mind. We are NOT our minds; our minds HAVE thoughts, beliefs, feelings. Eventually we can arrive at the insight that all our thoughts are merely borrowed from the great database of consciousness and were never really our own.
The ideal is not detachment--detachment will take you to the Void. The correct technique is nonattachment. Nonattachment allows me to participate in life and be totally at one with it. I have nothing to gain from it and nothing to lose from it; consequently, I can participate one hundred percent without getting caught by it. Detaching means I am afraid of the world. If I get involved I will get caught by it. Detachment is like the old story--please do not give me a cat because if you give me a cat, the cat will have to have milk. If the cat has to have milk, then I have to have a cow. If I have to have a cow, then I have to milk the cow; then I have to have a fence to keep the cow in; then I have to have food to feed the cow. Then I have to get a job to get the money to buy the food to feed the cow. Please do not give me a cat!
So there is this fear of being caught in the world. There is this phobia about relationship. The monk has become celibate. Why? Because he is going to get caught by sex, he is going to get trapped by maleness-femaleness and the attraction. It is okay for the monk for a period of time, but the sage, who has reached a high state and now comes back in the world, has to be able to participate again in life. You have to be able to handle money without getting caught by greed.
When you reach the full understanding of things, there is no reason to avoid them. Don't get caught by them. Detachment is different from non-attachment. You will see in Buddha's literature there is a misunderstanding of the Buddhist teaching about that.
Humans lift themselves by their bootstraps by effortlessly rising to a higher state of consciousness. Force cannot accomplish this. Power constantly does. Because power is effortless it goes unseen and unsuspected, unlike force which is felt through the senses. Power can be recognized only through inner awareness. We are immobilized in our present condition by our alignment with enormously powerful attractor energy patterns which are unconsciously set in motion. Moment by moment we are suspended at this state, restrained by the energies of force, impelled by the energies of power.
A statement may be true at high levels of understanding but incomprehensible to the average mind. Its value may by corrupted when the statement is distorted by the limitations of the listener. This has been the fate of religions throughout the ages. This is the fundamental danger of all "righteousness." By distorting the context, it is possible to rationalize and justify virtually any human behavior.
It is up to us.
There are no excuses.
There is no such thing as a victim.
We are where we are
because that is where we have put ourselves,
because that is where we need to be.
For the moment.
But we don't have to stay there.
You can look at your potential to evolve,
or continue to focus your life on survival.
You can start now.
No matter what your present situation is there is a way to expand your potential.
Take a look at what is the maximum potential of your present situation, and go for the potential available under the circumstances.
Or change them!
Not think about it, meditate on it,
talk about it -- do it.
Now.
It is never too late.
Until it is.
The energy just ran out.
Sending love...
— Paul Lowe
Simple kindness to one's self
and all that lives is the most
powerful transformational force of all.
It increases one's true power
without exacting a toll.
But to reach maximum power
it can be practiced with no exceptions
or with the expectation
of some selfish reward.
Powerful attractor patterns
make us go strong;
weak patterns make us go weak.
Love, compassion, forgiveness
are empowering.
Revenge, judgmentalism, condemnation
make you go weak.
Therefore it is a clinical fact that
in the long run the weak will not prevail.
Observing an event once does not predict it will occur again in the future. This remains true regardless of the number of observations one adds to the pile. Or, as Taleb, recapitulating David Hume, has it: the observation of even a million white swans does not justify the statement "all swans are white." There is no way to know that somewhere out there a black swan is not hiding, disproving the rule and nullifying our "knowledge" of swans. The problem of induction tells us that we cannot really learn from our experiences. It makes knowledge very problematic, if not impossible. And yet, humans do behave -almost without exception- as though they believe that experience teaches us lessons. This is forgivable; there is no better path to knowledge. But before proceeding, one must account for the limits that the problem of induction places on our claims to knowledge. And humans seem, at every turn, to lack this critical self-awareness.
- The Dilettante
Just take a closer look
Take a closer look
At what it is that's really haunting you