Nobody will tell you this but the key to everything in life comes down to one thing. It is not one thing but a variant depending on how willing you are to be honest with yourself and others. That’s it. Honesty and nothing else.
Look at success or your personal definition of it. Now imagine that you are the only person on earth and more importantly the only person that will ever be on earth. No future generations or descendants. This is a seemingly self centered example but if you are not the center of your universe then who is? Really feel it. Like the movie, Castaway but there is nobody else left to have a package delivered. Now imagine what your day might entail. What are your interests and opinions? What are your goals if any? And most people will tell you if you try to impose this example as anything more than an example that you are in fact not the center of the universe. They are right but for the wrong reason. This is an example of perspective.
Being the only person on earth may seem to have little to do with honesty but it in fact defines it. If you were the only person on earth what would be the point of telling a lie. You generally only lie to yourself to benefit yourself by way of other people. If you are the only person on earth and you lie to yourself about how much food you have then you will soon be in trouble. So why lie to yourself or others when there are people around?
What a lie does is reduce your value to others, which is usually the opposite of what you were trying to do in the first place. All lies are lies. Being polite to the person with a zit on their face by not mentioning it is one thing if they ask you if you can see it say yes I can see it from outside. You don’t need to draw a circle around it with a magic marker so they can find it, trust me on this one, but tell them. If they cared, enough to ask then care enough to answer. Do not, however, point out zits to people that don’t ask.
That was a simple example how you as a commodity rise and fall with the stock market of your personal interactions. It is like underwear. A pair of Hanes size five underwear with Tinkerbelle on the back are worth about two dollars at Wal-Mart. The same pair if worn for a day by Angelina Jolie and not washed can fetch a few grand on E-Bay. You need to be Angelina’s underwear. Some people have hundreds of friends on face book but value few of them. It is better to have a few that will tell you that you have a zit on your face than five hundred that will let you walk around with a pocket of puss on your chin that you should only burst in the front yard to save the carpet.
That is the key to everything you need to know. Be honest. It is the deciding factor in raising or lowering the value of yourself to yourself and others.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Occultation of the Soul
A Brief Primer to the Natureof3
Three is the basis for all things spiritual, all things natural and all things of the mind. Three points define a plane. Freud has his three ego id and self. Religion has the trinity and physics is hung up on connecting quantum theory with Relativity by some all encompassing new discovery that is within and contains the other two making a trinity of yet another sort. This is not the answer to everything but it does a lot to free the mind by encompassing already familiar terms and limits set up by previous systems some dating back five thousand years. I call it the Natureof3.
A few obstacles of the mind must be knocked down as we go. The first is the unconscious shackles locked onto our minds and bodies. Everywhere you turn, it seems someone is expounding the powers of the unlimited nature of our minds. But what does that mean anyway? Not going in to that right now. Just need to point out that this is a classic case of getting ahead of yourself. Few recognize what comes before seeing the limitlessness of the mind, reason being we are bound to a limited body. One that ages, breaks down then dies. We tend to connect our mind to that fragile shell because it’s extremely hard not to do so. Consider this—when the body dies the consciousness within ceases to be as far as we can tell. Sadly, until that moment comes we fail to see that they never were connected in the first place.
Consciousness does not die. It is an aspect of reality that cannot be explained but can be described.
When uranium breaks down it does so whenever it feels like it. Meaning we as brilliant human beings can’t predict what atom will do what and when it will do it. The reason for this is that the atoms choose to do something then do it. The act of choosing is an act of consciousness. This aspect of reality is always present and no different from our understanding of our own consciousness at a basic level. Therefore, I argue that consciousness does not die when the body dies it is merely there when it happens.
That is the first aspect of the naturof3. There is an all encompassing force that runs within and throughout us in our everyday experience.
The next part is our inner consciousness. This is similar to what Freud called the self but slightly different. This is the decision maker of the three. It looks out for its own interests but has to keep in mind the overall wellbeing of the whole. This part changes over time. It grows as we do and sometimes grows more than we want. The shape of our bodies reflect this. If you have a spare tire or a wide rear, you may have an overweight mind. This is why diets don’t work. They tend to address the body part from the outside and not take into consideration the overweight slob running the show behind the scenes.
The third part of the natureof3 is a secondary consciousness that controls our ability to shape the world around us. This part holds our values, beliefs and desires. It feeds our consciousness. The whole ensemble can be likened to a vast digestive system. The conscious mind being the muscles the secondary consciousness being the stomach and the all encompassing part similar to the mouth skin and lungs. It gathers and connects us with the rest of the world.
The occultation of the soul is the blind spot in our minds where we lose sight of what we started out as when we were children. Sounds odd I suppose but it seems to work like this. We have a core being that never changes. What does change is the things we add take away or ignore. A strange way to look at it is like this. Take a moment and think how different your life would be if you were the only person on earth and were the only person that had ever been on earth? Would that change your desires? Would it change what you eat? What you wear? If you don’t think it would then you didn’t think hard enough.
Try it again as a meditation when you wake up tomorrow instead of worrying about whether you’re going to be late or if the coffee’s ready yet. There’s no such thing as anything but you.
It may sound selfish but you can’t care for anyone else until you can get out of your own way. That’s a hard lesson I spent many many years learning.
Three is the basis for all things spiritual, all things natural and all things of the mind. Three points define a plane. Freud has his three ego id and self. Religion has the trinity and physics is hung up on connecting quantum theory with Relativity by some all encompassing new discovery that is within and contains the other two making a trinity of yet another sort. This is not the answer to everything but it does a lot to free the mind by encompassing already familiar terms and limits set up by previous systems some dating back five thousand years. I call it the Natureof3.
A few obstacles of the mind must be knocked down as we go. The first is the unconscious shackles locked onto our minds and bodies. Everywhere you turn, it seems someone is expounding the powers of the unlimited nature of our minds. But what does that mean anyway? Not going in to that right now. Just need to point out that this is a classic case of getting ahead of yourself. Few recognize what comes before seeing the limitlessness of the mind, reason being we are bound to a limited body. One that ages, breaks down then dies. We tend to connect our mind to that fragile shell because it’s extremely hard not to do so. Consider this—when the body dies the consciousness within ceases to be as far as we can tell. Sadly, until that moment comes we fail to see that they never were connected in the first place.
Consciousness does not die. It is an aspect of reality that cannot be explained but can be described.
When uranium breaks down it does so whenever it feels like it. Meaning we as brilliant human beings can’t predict what atom will do what and when it will do it. The reason for this is that the atoms choose to do something then do it. The act of choosing is an act of consciousness. This aspect of reality is always present and no different from our understanding of our own consciousness at a basic level. Therefore, I argue that consciousness does not die when the body dies it is merely there when it happens.
That is the first aspect of the naturof3. There is an all encompassing force that runs within and throughout us in our everyday experience.
The next part is our inner consciousness. This is similar to what Freud called the self but slightly different. This is the decision maker of the three. It looks out for its own interests but has to keep in mind the overall wellbeing of the whole. This part changes over time. It grows as we do and sometimes grows more than we want. The shape of our bodies reflect this. If you have a spare tire or a wide rear, you may have an overweight mind. This is why diets don’t work. They tend to address the body part from the outside and not take into consideration the overweight slob running the show behind the scenes.
The third part of the natureof3 is a secondary consciousness that controls our ability to shape the world around us. This part holds our values, beliefs and desires. It feeds our consciousness. The whole ensemble can be likened to a vast digestive system. The conscious mind being the muscles the secondary consciousness being the stomach and the all encompassing part similar to the mouth skin and lungs. It gathers and connects us with the rest of the world.
The occultation of the soul is the blind spot in our minds where we lose sight of what we started out as when we were children. Sounds odd I suppose but it seems to work like this. We have a core being that never changes. What does change is the things we add take away or ignore. A strange way to look at it is like this. Take a moment and think how different your life would be if you were the only person on earth and were the only person that had ever been on earth? Would that change your desires? Would it change what you eat? What you wear? If you don’t think it would then you didn’t think hard enough.
Try it again as a meditation when you wake up tomorrow instead of worrying about whether you’re going to be late or if the coffee’s ready yet. There’s no such thing as anything but you.
It may sound selfish but you can’t care for anyone else until you can get out of your own way. That’s a hard lesson I spent many many years learning.
Bring the Noise
Bigger, better, louder, faster, harder, more absorbent, fat free, no added colors or preservatives…
This is what we see on the outside but where did it come from? What is the purpose of these attributes? Would it make much difference if none of these things came to be or if they evolved in another direction?
Example: the last thought through a deer’s mind as it flies through the air after being bounced off the grill of a gas guzzling SUV is probably not that of how shiny the rims are or what nice leather seat covers it has not even the expensive custom paint job on this theoretical death bus. Doesn’t matter in the end. Still would not have mattered if the deer made it across the road, to the deer that is.
Point: anything other than the absolute basic is not necessary for life. This does not suggest give up all possessions and live as a monk in a cave somewhere. I just mean to point out the principle behind this advancement of perception.
This is easy to see anywhere. Almost everything around us today is unnecessary for we as a race to live procreate and die. Of course, this negates our possible intended purpose but that is for another day. I would just like to explain how this view of the world, turned towards the inner self, explains the presence of a lot of avoidable health and social problems.
Look at it like a simple machine. Put stuff in and get stuff out. Fuel-energy-work-action. This is very easy to see in action as it happens right in front of you but the same principle is what drives you to do things. Your mind works in the same manner. This is difficult to visualize because the mind can’t be seen only visualized but the work it does can be seen very easily.
Thoughts seem to be a separate and single entity. But they are subcategorized into many systems that perform different functions. To think: that is a tree is a thought. It defines. If I don’t slow down I’m going to hit that tree identifies a situation that hasn’t happened. I don’t like trees is another type that means something else.
If you assign exterior nomenclature to types of thoughts, it’s scary to see what you do with your mind every day. The label on a can of soup may say that half of the RDA for sodium and a third of the carbs are in that can of soup. You can look at that and know what’s wrong with your blood pressure if you eat five cans of that stuff every day. Your body needs sodium. Your body does not need too much sodium. You cut back on the soup and maybe sprinkle a bit less salt on things that don’t need it anyway and you blood pressure drops a bit. You can see that happen in the real world. Now apply that to the mind and thoughts running in there.
It is absurd to say someone is judgmental as an example. The statement itself is a judgment. Judgment is necessary to get out of bed and not fall on the floor which is good. Judging the person next to you when you get up as a lazy slob is not so good. You can have a low sodium diet or watch your calories and think nothing of it.
However, there’s no easy way to respond if at your next appointment the doctor said you need to cut down on thoughts of how much you don’t like your job to four times a day. You just hit that number and say well that’s enough for today. Sounds silly when you look at it like that. It’s what we do all the time. It’s why we have poor health and a weird economy.
Bigger, better, louder, faster…
We have gotten so wrapped up in the outside that we often forgo the inside. And most of it is from the population outpacing the straight evolution of thought.
Long ago, people were close groups. Hunter gatherer. No need for more. Population grew and the downfall started when we needed specialists. But we did need them to get to where we are. By that, I mean blacksmiths, farmers, merchants, sailors…
This freed people up so that they did not have to know how to do everything in order to survive. They just needed to contribute enough to support the mental and financial economy that started thousands of years ago. This has gotten out of our reach because we don’t even remember what our body’s do. They are designed to be a self contained organism. If not we would not have survived without the FDA to give us the RDA.
Simple example. The human tongue is sensitive to sweet salty bitter sour. Everybody knows that but we seem to have forgotten the purpose. Today the taste buds are abused in a manner far from their purpose. The bitter and sour are meant to warn us of poison. Long ago, we knew not to eat these things by the way they tasted. Today we appease and cater to them to make them pop and feel good.
We do the same thing with our thoughts. There is no need to stop thinking or see everything novel as bad. The mind and the thoughts it creates serve a purpose. That is a much longer explanation for another day.
We are stricken today with obesity in part due to an overweight mind. Problem is there is no RDA of the mind or any way to control it. But there is a way to control it. If you have the power to have “fattening” thoughts then you have the power not to have them. Don’t change everything at once. Just monitor these things for now. Periodically examine a thought and decide if it could be something that might be bad for you the way too much sodium might be. Sensory acuity of the mind is the first stage of stepping onto the path of the naturof3.
This is what we see on the outside but where did it come from? What is the purpose of these attributes? Would it make much difference if none of these things came to be or if they evolved in another direction?
Example: the last thought through a deer’s mind as it flies through the air after being bounced off the grill of a gas guzzling SUV is probably not that of how shiny the rims are or what nice leather seat covers it has not even the expensive custom paint job on this theoretical death bus. Doesn’t matter in the end. Still would not have mattered if the deer made it across the road, to the deer that is.
Point: anything other than the absolute basic is not necessary for life. This does not suggest give up all possessions and live as a monk in a cave somewhere. I just mean to point out the principle behind this advancement of perception.
This is easy to see anywhere. Almost everything around us today is unnecessary for we as a race to live procreate and die. Of course, this negates our possible intended purpose but that is for another day. I would just like to explain how this view of the world, turned towards the inner self, explains the presence of a lot of avoidable health and social problems.
Look at it like a simple machine. Put stuff in and get stuff out. Fuel-energy-work-action. This is very easy to see in action as it happens right in front of you but the same principle is what drives you to do things. Your mind works in the same manner. This is difficult to visualize because the mind can’t be seen only visualized but the work it does can be seen very easily.
Thoughts seem to be a separate and single entity. But they are subcategorized into many systems that perform different functions. To think: that is a tree is a thought. It defines. If I don’t slow down I’m going to hit that tree identifies a situation that hasn’t happened. I don’t like trees is another type that means something else.
If you assign exterior nomenclature to types of thoughts, it’s scary to see what you do with your mind every day. The label on a can of soup may say that half of the RDA for sodium and a third of the carbs are in that can of soup. You can look at that and know what’s wrong with your blood pressure if you eat five cans of that stuff every day. Your body needs sodium. Your body does not need too much sodium. You cut back on the soup and maybe sprinkle a bit less salt on things that don’t need it anyway and you blood pressure drops a bit. You can see that happen in the real world. Now apply that to the mind and thoughts running in there.
It is absurd to say someone is judgmental as an example. The statement itself is a judgment. Judgment is necessary to get out of bed and not fall on the floor which is good. Judging the person next to you when you get up as a lazy slob is not so good. You can have a low sodium diet or watch your calories and think nothing of it.
However, there’s no easy way to respond if at your next appointment the doctor said you need to cut down on thoughts of how much you don’t like your job to four times a day. You just hit that number and say well that’s enough for today. Sounds silly when you look at it like that. It’s what we do all the time. It’s why we have poor health and a weird economy.
Bigger, better, louder, faster…
We have gotten so wrapped up in the outside that we often forgo the inside. And most of it is from the population outpacing the straight evolution of thought.
Long ago, people were close groups. Hunter gatherer. No need for more. Population grew and the downfall started when we needed specialists. But we did need them to get to where we are. By that, I mean blacksmiths, farmers, merchants, sailors…
This freed people up so that they did not have to know how to do everything in order to survive. They just needed to contribute enough to support the mental and financial economy that started thousands of years ago. This has gotten out of our reach because we don’t even remember what our body’s do. They are designed to be a self contained organism. If not we would not have survived without the FDA to give us the RDA.
Simple example. The human tongue is sensitive to sweet salty bitter sour. Everybody knows that but we seem to have forgotten the purpose. Today the taste buds are abused in a manner far from their purpose. The bitter and sour are meant to warn us of poison. Long ago, we knew not to eat these things by the way they tasted. Today we appease and cater to them to make them pop and feel good.
We do the same thing with our thoughts. There is no need to stop thinking or see everything novel as bad. The mind and the thoughts it creates serve a purpose. That is a much longer explanation for another day.
We are stricken today with obesity in part due to an overweight mind. Problem is there is no RDA of the mind or any way to control it. But there is a way to control it. If you have the power to have “fattening” thoughts then you have the power not to have them. Don’t change everything at once. Just monitor these things for now. Periodically examine a thought and decide if it could be something that might be bad for you the way too much sodium might be. Sensory acuity of the mind is the first stage of stepping onto the path of the naturof3.
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