X Marks the Spot

Well, thanks.

lol.




I still have a couple of hours here before I make my drive...which also takes an hour.

i`ll sit on the back seat kerb side

oh
you got the back seats down ?

It's a truck.

Bench seat only.




Hehe...I'm smiling again.

Thank you all.





SS mentioned this to another earlier and I have been musing on it.



Because in fact it is true. We allow those to whom we are attached to have more flexibility and leniency on what we are willing to endure through said attachment alone.

However, how one remains attachment-less does not seem a viable alternative, either.

So what is the key?

attach to someone/something that satisfies your expectation

yeah, lol, maybe I should write my name in

Isn't that what some eastern cultures teach? Get rid of own will and desire to transcend them?

British humor!

well done, i missed that

95% of your conscious process is motivated as you know

you and several thousands of years of people saying with the 5% knowing self part of conscious that you are not motivated seems nuts to me and possibly feels the same to your 95% conscious process too

maybe a contributing factor to the 5% being switched off at death

Last Edited by aether on 11/18/2012 08:29 PM

Good point

When one is allowed to just flow with what comes, there is no expectation to where it leads. It's just like hopping on a wave and letting it carry you where it may.

Hence...'musing'.

A bit like throwing caution to the wind. But with the confidence knowing that one is a strong enough swimmer if the unexpected occurs.

are not any and all decisions motivational process?

i luv it when you get it

In reaction the motivations cannot be seen as your own. martial arts stresses automatic pattern reactions faster than thought and stronger than emotion.

Just because I know a move does not make it mine own.

well if you rely on your "opponents" signals yes
rely on our environments signals gives a whole different set of signals
starting with
why was there no martial arts in our global memory called golden age?

I truly don't understand the thinking that only a small fraction of the brain is being used. A small part may be engaged, but it flows as current and billows as reaction. Much under our awareness.

Look at the opposite and equal reflection of contending angels and syncretic symbols throughout the ages and match it with my previous response.

This is exactly right.

And what I was attempting to describe in your thread yesterday.

When 'thought' can be a trigger, one learns to watch them very closely.

Creating reflex faster than thought.

Thanks.

:)

Awareness of awareness unto itself.

it is most likely my language barrier

I think one should only rely on oneself. Mastering oneself is true power. Being in desire is being a slave of desire. I didn't realize what that meant. I thought what they were telling to not have any creativity or thought or actions. But really it means not to be led by desire or anything that is not truly you. So the answer and question is 'who are you'.

i like that

That is my recent Buddha influence, lol.

It is ok to be attached to things, as long as you do not feel any pain when those attachments are no longer there in your life.

It's quite simple, but is made complex.

I have never really been attached to material things. Then, I met my wife and we had all this 'stuff'. Then, in late 2007 when the economy crashed, we ended up losing pretty much everything within about a year.

It didn't really bother me, because I never really was attached to anything except my family and friends. Long, long story, lol.

But, the pain and suffering with losing everything didn't bother me, but it hit my wife very, very hard. That attachment she had was effecting me and everything around her because it was causing her pain. She felt like a 'loser', etc.

I have always been a 'loser' in that mindeset because I never really cared about being a Dr, or lawyer, or stock broker, or accountant, or any of the other 'prestigious' money making jobs my intelligence was supposed to guide me into.

In the end, she learned her lesson about attachment, which to me was beautiful, because she began to see all those things as truly unimportant.

No worries, what makes up our unconcious awareness is likely a far greater push than that which we temporarily ascribe as self and self fulfilled motivations.

Reaction ,in my lexicon, is that which attempts to bring balance.

A motivation can be anything when reflected against personal bias and temporal trend.

As I said to Seer, life is in the relationships, not the numbers.

Now stop riling up the infirm i the nobody thread.

Yeah, holy shit, did not expect that.
As Aruna would put it...

* backs away slowly *

I know, right?

Yikes.


Why are some so quick to judge? To damn another they have never met? To utter false assumptions with no merit? To threaten their families and kin?

What is that about?

Why would someone feel such outrage to feel justified in voicing such a thing...?

Is it an impulse control issue?

Complete lack of empathy? Inability to see past ones own nose?

Is it holding so tight to a delusion that one would burn down anything in their path to hold on to it?

It can be a symptom of ilness
When I worked as an IT supporter, there would sometimes be calls from not so sane people, and their reality just looks very different, and you can't really say anything to them that would comfort them, like you can with a a sane person, since they do not connect what you say.

they get so focused on their own reality, they can't break free.
And the complete lack of empathy, as you said, seems to fit very well.

Last Edited by Michael_ on 11/19/2012 03:51 AM

What is illness?

At its core?


It is Imbalance.


That which is not trained properly toward natural cycles.

The ebb and flow.


You are what you eat rings here...

;)