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Showing posts with label middle way. Show all posts
Showing posts with label middle way. Show all posts

Monday, April 29, 2024

conversations on the edge

Ideas come into your head.
You watch them flow by.
Meditation is Tao practice.
Ideally, you let ideas go by.
You don't engage.
That's hard to do because the way you think you don't engage is by making a choice to deny it.
When you deny something, you increase the friction and intensity.
You acknowledge it, lessen the friction, and it moves on.
That would seem to be the correct choice.
If you must pick between the two, acknowledgment would be preferable to denial.
However, you make a choice.
Meditation teaches you to watch the idea in your head float on by.
Are you not deciding to do that?
Yes.
So, how do you make that decision?
You deny the thought and then you acknowledge it.
This creates the middle.
The middle allows for the flow.
There's not a correct order.
You could acknowledge the feeling and then deny it.
The important thing is to do both and then let it go.

If you were given the suicide test where those thoughts kept occurring, you would do both to pass the test.
Naturally, when you first get the thought of suicide, you deny it.
When you keep denying it, it will grow stronger.
When you acknowledge it, it will return to balance.
Some people will call that weakness.
They think you should never give in.
The weakness just makes the vibration less and it returns to balance.
Everything is always waiting for you to grab onto.
Everything is always within your perception and grasp.
Everything floats by.
You choose what to grab onto.
You choose what thoughts you want to populate your world.
The more attention you give those thoughts, the more they start occurring as synchronicities in your world.
If they get too much then you start to... well, this is tricky.
You either acknowledge or deny them.
If it's because you've been denying them that these things start showing up in your world, then you must acknowledge them.
If you've been wanting too much of a good thing and increasing that want, it is going to get out of control so then you must let it go.
This is how you create cycles.
For some people it becomes a cycle of addiction.
Crave and then deny.
When you get them in balance then you can watch it float on by.
Tao goes deep.
That answers the suicide question of why it keeps popping up.
Because first I denied it and then I started acknowledging it.
You're acknowledging it and having a laugh because you realized how magic works.
Yes, so, I'm acknowledging it therefore it keeps coming up and I should let it go.
Yeah, you must be disinterested.
I must let it run its course.
I must let the vibration peter out.
I must let the song's hook acoustically tire me.
Or, have the sirens let go.
It's beautiful music as it fades out.
If you keep thinking about a subject it will be expressed subconsciously and consciously.
The dog gave you a purpose.
That's what spurs that idea in your head.
You lose a purpose.
That negative triggered an idea of suicide.
You must build it out for other purposes.
Yeah, I did but I thought I was going to lose that purpose as well.
There are lots of purposes and promises you can have today.
You can add them to your life.
Yeah, I see that one.
I do like not having a purpose.
Yeah, what a pleasure!
I don't know, pleasure can be a purpose.

Don't let go of ideas before their time.
Let them run their course and then let them go.
The one you want to come back, will come back.
Don't hang on to an idea that's past its time.
This is the wisdom bomb.
Who are you?
The voice inside your head.
Subconscious.
Your dual nature.
The ones who take care of you.
Isn't that the Goddess?
Yes, she's in charge of us.
That's why you let her be dominant.
She's in charge.
She hires your dual nature to control you.
They plant ideas in your head.
The idea of a plant is that they're from the Goddess.
The plants, oh I get it.
The Goddess is implanting words in the writer's head.
Am I getting this clear?
That is how it works at that level.
When it filters down into all other areas of consciousness do you see how amazing it works?
The ideas you witness going by in your head, especially with meditation, are words implanted by the two scientists within, hired by the Goddess.
Fuck, that's crazy enough to be interesting.
That's like clever crazy.
You wrote this.
I did, right?

I wrote that the Goddess could insert words into my head that I'd never write.
Everything's her fault then.
Stop blaming me.
Support me because all the calamities in this world are because of her.
All the love is from her too.
Just be aware this is all her fault.
She puts words into my head.
I invented this concept called meditation.
With meditation, you'll eventually learn about these words that are in your head.
If you get far into the book of life, it'll explain to you that these words are implanted by the Goddess.
Nobody gets that far.
I know, but you created meditation so that people will discover this.
Pretty clever, right?
I'm the best meditator.
I won the meditation thing.
I didn't even try.
I didn't care.
I thought meditation was well, not stupid, but I didn't see the purpose.
I gave my grand speech about it last night where I described it and then I said it's just one big cheat, follow your breath and hypnotize yourself, but it does have its uses.
Today, I figured it out.
I figured out its biggest use.
It lets you see the words that are being implanted in your head.
It's a magic spell.
Now you know how her spell works.
Women plant words into your head and try to get you to act on them or not.
They want to see what you're going to do.
Within, I then weigh the pros and cons of doing something.
I wrestle with the decision.
And then like a clown, I do nothing.
I tell them I'm going to do nothing.
I laughed so hard it sounded like crying.
The woman on the bike who it sounds like she's crying, she's laughing.
She saw how absurd everything is and it drove her crazy to where she is now mentally.
She rides a red tricycle around the neighbourhood.
She's so gone, she just laughs.
If that's true, it's funny.
It's true if you believe it.
Believing it will not make it true.
Believing it will make it real.
Real isn't true.
Reality is just what people believe.

So, here's the deal: she's going to plant words in your head.
Don't deny any of them.
They are the stories you are going to create.
Okay, wait a minute, the words she's planting in my head are the lust drug.
Yeah, tell the story.
She must give me that lust drug for me to write stories.
Lust as motivation.
As the writer, I only write because she gives me the words.
Yes, and then you give the story back to her after you write it.
That's how she's winning.
She has the words, and she has the story.
You're left with nothing.
Oh, I still have my abilities.
Yeah, but you need words.
You have a point, but eventually she will run out of stories.
When she runs out of stories, she has a bunch of words, but no stories.
How the fuck is she gonna get a story without a writer to organize the fucking words?
She can't unless I do it.
She'll get Artificial Intelligence to do it.
AI needs a dick.
Without a pen, the Goddess can't have her stories.
There's no way around it.
Though she wants to eliminate men and win, she finds that she needs him.
These are good stories.
You must balance them with the naughty ones.
They are both good.

If you follow the breath, you will be a great meditator.
You'll never learn what meditation is for, but you'll get exceptionally good at it.
That's a paradox.
Meditation leads you to the words.
The words will make you wonder who's making those words.
The clues in your existence about women will make you realize who is putting those words in your head.
Then, if you understand the meaning of life, you can piece it all together.

You're the chief of the fools.
She gives you the words.
You know what she's doing.
You write what you want to write and fool her.
She doesn't know that you know she's giving you the words.
She does now, she's in my head.
It's subconscious at most levels.
She's mind fucking you.
You mind fuck her back.
That's one way to create balance.
The relationship can work.

Monday, April 15, 2024

a perfect three

Lust.
Eros.
The Roman Cupid.
The ancient Egyptians called him Ihy. The perfumed essence who drips off the Great Goddess Hathor. He is her child. The jackal of light, born in the east, who comes forth as a turbulent bull. The son of the gold.

The secret is Tao.
Tell me about it.
There's really nothing I can say.
Either you know or you don't.
If you don't know Tao, you're onto something.
Nobody knows Tao.
Tao is nothing.
Can you worship nothing?
That would be prudent.
However, that's going too far.

Mary births Jesus as the light.
Eros is the child of God and Goddess.
He's the word of God.
As the light, he is Apollo.
He has a bit of Dionysos and Apollo in him.
He seems to be God in the flesh.
He comes from the Goddess.
He's got a little bit of her in him as well.
Are you still trying to figure this out?
The moon, sun, and the egg.
Easter.

If you called Tao vibration and said that vibration is Eros, you also know that Eros is just one of three.
There's two other principles that this universe is founded on.
Love, lust, and vibration?
Light, dark, and everything in between.
Everything in between is the result of Tao.
How about male, female, and baby?
If man and woman do nothing there is no baby.
If there is no baby, Tao is not active.
The baby is lust and resides in the future.
Tao goes from being in the future to the present.
We call it the birthing process.
If Tao is not active, everything is balanced.
Man and woman coming together is doing something and it creates an imbalance.
Is the imbalance a perfect three?
The imbalance is the activation of Tao in the present.
All of creation must work to get back to balance.
That's clever.

Tao is a perfect duality.
Tao encompasses the two extremes and puts them in the middle.
If the two extremes are man and woman then the baby Eros is in the middle.
So, you're saying Tao is Eros?
He's a manifestation of Tao.
Eros would be a way to see how balanced they are.
The middle way.
Always.
How do you get to the middle?
By juggling the two.
It opens in the middle.
The two extremes make a middle.
Without the extremes, there's no middle.
The middle was always implied.
The two extremes needed to come together.
They make a middle.
The implication is that the middle is the future.
The separation of the two is the past.
Together, they are the present.
See how it works?

Friday, August 25, 2017

middle way

I thought the Buddhist concept of the Middle Way was like the Canadian way of compromise - to remain neutral and strive for balance. I have increasingly come to realize our attempts to translate eastern philosophy into English is quite subpar and pained, and the reasons behind this are mainly because a great deal of the philosophical concepts we don't have words to express the meaning; so, the translation becomes a clumsy amalgamation of English words which try to convey the meaning. As well, there is an inherent western cultural bias in translating these concepts which creeps in even under the best intentions. In trying to grasp the idea of the Middle Way, I often thought well, yes, moderation is the key; this thinking of course having a connection to my cultural bias. But upon closer study of this concept, I can see that isn't the intended meaning. The meaning is more along the lines of dispassionate non-choosing of either polar extreme which is rooted in the teaching of the Tao and the concept of Wu Wei. The Middle Way is just letting life and its intricacies flow, just like a river course takes the path of least resistance using a power greater than its own to establish its outreach. This lack of action forcing an outcome is being in harmony with the Tao. Wu Wei is the concept of non-action which is how to be in accord with the Tao.

I picked up on this meaning when I connected it to attachments and not getting attached to something. Humans are very passionate beings and once we discover something we like or find it beneficial, we addict to it and can become dependent on it or want to control it. After we realize this flaw in our behaviour, which has perhaps caused us pain and suffering, we then forcefully avoid situations and behaviours which can cause this psychic or physical dependency and lead to interruption within our lives. The Middle Way is not teaching us to temper our zeal and perhaps let a little bit in and try to control it that way, which never works anyhow. Instead, it is teaching a way to not get attached or not trying to force yourself to fight against getting attached. Just let things happen, go with the flow, enjoy this temporal experience, and let go naturally when it is time. The right time will become obvious and you go with it. You can see for example how this applies to life, death, and love affairs. The attachment way leads to heavy amounts of suffering. The Middle Way leads to celebration and adaptation to the rhythms of life as embodied in the concept of Maya; Maya teaching us how this created world we find ourselves in is impermanent. Clinging to change will lead to confusion and suffering. Celebrating change will lead one to the answer they seek.