tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50037798387018409072024-03-24T07:20:53.337-07:00Lucid Change - Living Wide AwakeA common sense way to developing a fully awake, fully aware everyday life. Stop having differences with others. End hardship for yourself. Give up basing past, present and future on a history or fear of loss, lack and limitation. Simple answers to complex questions. Get into your true nature and love every bit of it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003779838701840907.post-65228678867279873622023-07-02T05:25:00.000-07:002024-03-24T07:19:53.722-07:00Learning "By-Your-Leave"There are two times when I experienced a life changing event that
took place without my permission. Both were huge losses. One was a
relationship eight years ago, the second was my mom's passing just
before the summer solstice this year. In both cases the change
loomed on the horizon for about nine months before it became my
reality. In both situations I felt utterly Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003779838701840907.post-48577667074886108212020-07-09T08:48:00.001-07:002020-07-09T08:50:26.926-07:00Expectations and the Three Sets of Five
I woke up unhappy this morning. It has been more than three months since the Pandemic closed the store and I have been working from home. I haven’t seen my friends at work since then, except for WebEx meetings, occasional FaceTime, texts, and Facebook posts. That is a big change, especially since I have no one living with me but my dog. He’s a great companion animal, Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003779838701840907.post-26725451529333698242014-12-06T21:23:00.000-08:002014-12-06T21:29:54.894-08:00Choose FreedomThe many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics posits that there are limitless possibilities surrounding every potential situation and all remain probable even after one is selected. In other words, until you decide your limits, they don't exist, and even after you do, there are alternative realities.
The issue is that many limits were decided for us, before we could be lucid to Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003779838701840907.post-87988847708389601272014-08-13T15:08:00.001-07:002014-08-13T15:08:08.832-07:00Think Naught
Is you thinking again? Does you ever stop? In all yous time of thinking, what has it ever really done? You can't stop thinking. You can try. You can make the path to attain peace of mind to become thoughtless, but there is no hope in that. That thought itself destroys any hope of peace of mind.
The thing is, what do you think? Do you identify Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003779838701840907.post-47652336766149490982014-04-05T04:23:00.001-07:002014-04-05T04:23:20.983-07:00Nothing is permanent except changeThis quote from the Greek philosopher Heraclitus gets at one of the most fundamental reasons for being lucid. To be anything else would be impermanent.
There is a mistaken belief within the framework of reality that life is scalable with two definitions. It can be larger or smaller depending upon ones age and experience and that with experience one is able to scale or climb Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003779838701840907.post-24682884186104978502014-03-29T06:34:00.001-07:002014-03-29T06:34:20.548-07:00Better Isn't Always BestProbably the most challenging and satisfying accomplishment anyone can do is achieving something without negative motivation. This is the difference between well-being and getting better. In the context of this post "Well-being" is about living a healthy life. "Getting better" is about recovering from some malady.
While recovering from illness seems much better than being sick, what's best is Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003779838701840907.post-61939677907261060962013-08-01T15:00:00.000-07:002013-10-29T12:22:39.102-07:00A Meaningful Life
Are you mean? Are you good at it? What kind of meanness do you have? Are you inconsiderate, self absorbed, critical of others? Do you see what doesn't work first and endlessly complain? Do you know better than anyone else, or at least handle yourself better than they do? Does someone feel disappointed by something you have failed to do or can't stop doing?Are all Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003779838701840907.post-35308340552468956712013-04-11T19:52:00.002-07:002013-04-11T19:53:41.427-07:00You Are Not What You Eat
It's not surprising that we confuse ourselves with our thoughts. In a world that originated the phrase, "You are what you eat", it follows that to be your thoughts might be an improvement. You're not, you know, what you eat. That is to say you are not your body. Likewise, you are not what you think, that is the mind.
The most accurate indicator of what you are is not what but rather, Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003779838701840907.post-66703766731700817982013-04-04T04:57:00.001-07:002013-04-06T09:47:19.009-07:00The Dream of Not-as-YetWhen life seems to be about what we do to attempt and attain accomplishments and a sense of fulfillment we are noticing our attachment to what we dream. Better to focus our awareness on That we dream. In this way we bridge the apparent duality of the explicitly pragmatic and the implicitly passionate aspects of being and are completely free of the outcomes in the dream of life.
In the space Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003779838701840907.post-49001448972660083812013-03-23T06:57:00.002-07:002013-03-23T10:31:01.707-07:00Living Lucid <!--[if gte mso 9]>
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With awareness we can actively appreciate circumstances as reminders to be present, noticing Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003779838701840907.post-23688934752727541342012-12-24T05:27:00.001-08:002012-12-24T05:27:46.513-08:00Rules of EngagementThe challenge is not to stop the workings of the mind, even if they set us up for failure, sadness, anxiety, disappointment, frustration.
Rather it is to be able to observe these habits and tendencies without taking them in to account for the level of success, happiness, peace, and fulfillment we perceive in ourselves.
For it is in being, before the arising of any perception or circumstance, Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003779838701840907.post-81954603077105575112012-11-22T16:58:00.001-08:002012-11-22T16:58:47.329-08:00Without"Going without" is generally interpreted to mean not having what we want or think we need. Interestingly, "going within" refers to connecting with oneself and being introspective. Taking another look at "without" it is clear the sensation of "not having" is always in contrast to our perceptions of the outer world.
When we leave "within" - the conscious contact with our true nature, we Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003779838701840907.post-37600282725399922262012-11-17T06:17:00.001-08:002012-11-17T06:17:40.916-08:00ReperceivingLike gravel caught up in the tread of a tire, we can get flung around by life circumstances. When we feel overwhelmed we have created a story that these circumstances have the ability to influence and affect us.this is our perception. If we begin to wrestle with these feelings or attempt to change the circumstances suffering is certain until and after we find a replacement story.
Secondary Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003779838701840907.post-53883133514748560962012-10-16T15:05:00.000-07:002014-03-23T06:02:24.557-07:00What's Playing at the Box Office?<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003779838701840907.post-26480389795083525062012-10-06T19:34:00.001-07:002014-03-23T05:59:10.036-07:00Breaking the Law of Cause and EffectThere are some things that are thought of as law, that are based on the most ridiculous hypothesis. One is that there is a cause for everything that happens. This gets twisted in our implicit learning as children to make it seem best that we know the reason for everything that happens. In truth Nothing happens, and there is Nothing to cause it, but diversity seems to exist, so Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003779838701840907.post-12704064843749479982012-07-28T06:22:00.000-07:002012-09-09T04:46:53.365-07:0050 Ways - Not."The problem is all inside your head, she said to me. The answer is easy
if you take it logically. I'd like to help you in your struggle to be
free. There must be 50 ways to leave your lover."
Paul Simon
Suppose the lover is not someone else, but the doer of love in the mind, the implicit lover we learned by example, wielding the kind of love that approves, judges, promises, Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003779838701840907.post-31961891775638918122012-07-15T18:30:00.000-07:002012-07-15T18:30:01.730-07:00What's Naught Got to Do with It?Still the mind searches, even in wonder: What's Naught got to do with it? Knowing that the mind will never go away and that all desires to make it so are destined to disappoint, the approach here is to train the mind on becoming implicitly lucid before it automatically indices what it already knows to define the unconditinal. So it wants to know what the prize is. Emptiness Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003779838701840907.post-29678417993181229562012-07-13T05:52:00.003-07:002012-07-14T05:57:43.406-07:00When Not is a Sound, Part III - Naught Really!What's this?
I does Naught know
Naught that
Naught now
Did you see it coming? In this application the four lines move from negation to affirmation that the absolute unconditional is the source and true state of the I as well as all concepts of space and time.
Used in combination with the three strings of five, Naught can unconditionally replace the automatic follow-through of common concepts Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003779838701840907.post-23307536571513462012-07-12T06:54:00.000-07:002012-07-13T05:18:07.759-07:00When Not is a Sound, Part II - Not Really!What's this?
I does not know
Not that
Not now
These four lines can be used as a mantra to facilitate being lucid in the dream of life by making a blue bunny out of the question What's this?.
When the reply affirms I does not know, the observer is consciously detaching from automatically running the belief system, and may inquire further rather than be subject to the automatic problem-solving Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003779838701840907.post-4437468515483251712012-07-11T06:36:00.001-07:002012-07-11T06:58:59.918-07:00When Not is a Sound - Introduction
Years ago I made a set of tiny little cards which I carry to re-mind myself. Each card has a drawing and a one-liner that is often both a negation and affirmation.
The first little card posits "I does not exist". Some of my friends have found this concept to be downright offensive. But it's just a concept (there is no getting around this if we're going to communicate in this Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003779838701840907.post-7345859060531212452012-07-09T04:34:00.001-07:002012-07-09T04:59:14.875-07:00And Just Is for AllThe things you will do are not you. These things don't prove or undermine your value.
Not doing is not you either. It is a concept no less than any other, but one which may leave fewer concepts for you to wrestle with.
You will do what you do and you need not regret it, for you can not go wrong and nothing is right.
Everything just is and as you are lucid you will always be able to Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003779838701840907.post-38742417113258762142012-07-08T15:22:00.000-07:002012-07-08T15:22:17.044-07:00Wonder, No WorriesIf ignorance is not knowing how to know not, and we're supposed to do nothing but get comfortable not knowing, what the heck is that supposed to be like? It just sounds like some crazy circle that leads nowhere! Don't we need to know where we are going? How are we supposed to get there? Aren't we supposed to do good deeds or something? How can we just do nothing and know Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003779838701840907.post-59081703521709803792012-07-07T00:24:00.000-07:002012-07-07T00:24:00.541-07:00Know NothingDoing Nothing is not the same as being irresponsible, indifferent or insensitive. Neither is it waiting for something to be done for you. Doing nothing is allowing the process of being comfortable not knowing and saving our implicit memory the trouble of trying to save us the trouble of needing to know (aka being ignorant).
This process of addressing the dangers of ignorance goes back to Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003779838701840907.post-64014228189893240262012-07-06T05:11:00.000-07:002012-07-06T05:11:02.224-07:00Do NothingNothing is widely thought to be just about one of the most irresponsible things people do...or don't do...well, you get the picture. That's because few people understand the value of nothing...it is priceless (read that as free).
For all our dreams and challenges, most people believe there is a price to pay. For every problem that needs to be fixed or goal to be achieved it is widely accepted Unknownnoreply@blogger.com