"Beware of beatified individuality."
This should be imprinted on the inside of every psychenaut's skull! (Quote from Wei Wu Wei)
This is the age of cleverness
This is the age of cleverness, but commensurate with cleverness is stupidity. They come bundled together.
Premature Divine Being Syndrome
What we can do is very much dependent on where our feet come to rest and how we answer for it. You have got to fully acknowledge the earthly before you can be heavenly. Otherwise, you will be standing on mental stilts! (NB: the 'earthly' and the 'heavenly' are both concepts. Get stuck into reality and be honest about it - the fantasies and dreams are never real!!)
Modern Civilization
From ancient times, either people fight when they get together, or they exchange goods.
What's the point?!
This lament is no good! 'The point' is all around us. But life is not pointy! Life is not sharp. Life is not in bondage to anything at all.
Dung Beetle
We push our knowledge forward, in order to create the next moment - rather like a dung beetle, with its little bolus of dung! That's all the future is. We create it from our knowledge as we go, pushing it ahead of us. One thinks, "This will really get me places!" It doesn't matter how big the ball is, it's still dung. The dung-ball is like one's little store of knowledge - and one has to leave it by the wayside.
Being Still
Being still should be easy, shouldn't it? But it isn't. Even after years. What can you do about it?
It isn't easy to play a musical instrument, either. What can you do about it? Practise!
But no, one wants to be a virtuoso immediately, without any prior work to play brilliantly so that everyone claps! It's just that infantile desire which only has to sit back and be spoon-fed, a mere smile and everyone applauds. It (the baby) thinks that the hard slog of PRACTICE is a waste of its potential, its brilliancy!
Practise!
It isn't easy to play a musical instrument, either. What can you do about it? Practise!
But no, one wants to be a virtuoso immediately, without any prior work to play brilliantly so that everyone claps! It's just that infantile desire which only has to sit back and be spoon-fed, a mere smile and everyone applauds. It (the baby) thinks that the hard slog of PRACTICE is a waste of its potential, its brilliancy!
The Body
M: I wonder what on earth Alfred Aiken means by "You are not the body." The body seems so real.
W: I think the operative term there is 'earth'! ...on earth as it is in heaven? Heaven meaning, 'how things actually are.' Consciousness, awareness is not the body. The body is social! We think we are bodies relating to one another. Which is fine, but it's not the truth.
m: That's very good to hear, because a person's mood tends to swing up or down according to the success rate in society.
W: At some point, everyone has to leave society, and forget and be forgotten - you can't have everyone on the stage at once!
W: I think the operative term there is 'earth'! ...on earth as it is in heaven? Heaven meaning, 'how things actually are.' Consciousness, awareness is not the body. The body is social! We think we are bodies relating to one another. Which is fine, but it's not the truth.
m: That's very good to hear, because a person's mood tends to swing up or down according to the success rate in society.
W: At some point, everyone has to leave society, and forget and be forgotten - you can't have everyone on the stage at once!
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