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connection to a surge of sublimity.Brian Russohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16691148637452440215noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367069805214238248.post-1255756503389397612011-04-17T13:21:00.000-07:002011-04-17T13:21:20.458-07:00PINNACLE OF POIGNANCY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Milan Kundera is one of the most insightful authors of the 21st century. Growing up in Czechoslovakia under communist rule, his works reflect the great struggles and triumphs under an irrational regime. I wanted to reproduce a selection from Kundera's seminal work: The Unbearable Lightness of Being:</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals… It is a completely selfish love: Tereza didn’t want anything out of her dog Karenin; she did not ever ask him to love her back. Nor had she ever asked herself the questions that plague human couples: Does he love me? Does he love anyone more than me? Does he love me more than I love him? Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short. Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearned to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) for our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company. Furthermore, Tereza accepted Karenin for what she was; she did not try to make him over in her image. No one can give anyone the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals were not expelled from Paradise.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">A clean refreshing relationship reminds me of brushing my teeth. There’s no better feeling than sliding your tongue over spotless pearly whites, bastions of trust, respect, responsibility and awesomeness. There’s many more teeth to be brushed in our relations but these are the foundations. Trust is an obvious one, and it can be demonstrated by non-threatening behavior and an authentic comfort with the other. Trust deeply relates to sharing vulnerabilities because knowing eachother’s weak points can make us softer and more considerate. Vulnerability derives from the latin “Vulnus” which means “to wound.” If you know what hurts her, then hopefully there’s greater compassion to avoid reopening the wound. Yet the underlying problem is when we rip the scab off anyway and use the sensitive issues of the other as ammunition to hit below the belt. This plaque only strip the enamel off our teeth. Respect- from listening non-judgmentally to being emotionally available and affirming is key. Responsibility for self and for the priorities of the other- acknowledging past wrongs and admitting when one is wrong are equally pertinent. Finally, awesomeness – what are those sparks that make your spine tingle and eyes alight with excitement? Seek the intriguing adventurous paths.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sometimes we do a careless job of brushing only the front and bottom teeth, neglecting the hard to reach molars in the back. It takes more effort to reach these teeth but it is just as important to brush them and even more rewarding. These are the subtleties of romance, knowing just what to say and when to say it, the spontaneity of bringing home her favorite meal and especially being less clueless to her state of mind. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Just as we must floss after a particularly big meal that leaves corn or beef in between our teeth, difficulties with respect or trust for example, its crucial to talk through them ASAP before the plaque eats through enamel, the outer coating of the tooth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It really is the “little things,” those times we shirk brushing, that can tear a relationship apart.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, a minor dispute such as a wife disliking the fact that her husband chews with his mouth open can fester if she does not tell him. Likewise, He might dislike that she gossips to him about her friends. An amalgam of miniature problems such as these go untalked about because they are considered minor-things each spouse thinks they can tolerate. But this plaque can lead to emotional gingivitis where the build up grows exponentially and becomes intolerable.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;">Some fights for example start over a stupid issue and then the little things get brought up in a hostile environment and exacerbate the situation. Communication and understanding are the toothpaste and floss that remove the plaque of problems from our teeth. The sooner the toothpaste is used, the sooner the couple talks about a particular problem and the relationship gets stronger, just as the tooth heals. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;">The major fights destroy not only enamel but rot the pulp of the tooth. Getting false teeth is expensive and painful, just like divorce.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">After a root canal, one’s mouth never feels the same. The wife who didn’t like her husband chewing with his mouth open might bring this to his attention during an argument on an unrelated subject such as not having enough money for the electric bill, causing the dam to burst and both partners to unleash a slew of insults at each other. He goes down stairs to sleep on the couch and they both begin to think why they thought they loved each other in the first place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fights that never get resolved cause many facets (teeth) of a relationship to fall apart (fall out) from root canals. Before you know it. Love is a great mouthwash to cover all the nooks and crannies your toothbrush missed. Affection and compassion can always forgive miscommunication here and there.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><!--EndFragment--> </div>Brian Russohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16691148637452440215noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367069805214238248.post-22180235261930127032011-04-14T18:56:00.000-07:002011-04-14T18:56:39.012-07:00So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains: MAITRI and HOW TO BE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You may have heard the word "Maitri" bandied about with concepts like loving friendship or even love itself but it's also </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">India's second permanent research station in Antartica! Seriously though, its the first of the "Four Immeasurable Minds' of Buddhist thought that I will be discussing. They include Maitri, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity. The idea is that these four general lumps of ideas will foster a spirit in us to embrace the whole world, discover "real" happiness and make everyone around you happier too. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><b><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The big 4 won't magically make you happy, but as Carlos Castenada would say, these paths have heart.</span></o:p></b></span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trungpa Rinpoche says, "the most </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">powerful mantra is </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Om Grow Up Svaha.</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But this issue of growing up, it's not all that easy because it requires a lot of courage. Particularly it takes a lot of courage to relate directly with your experience. By this I mean whatever is occurring in you, you use it,. You seize the moment? moment after moment? you seize those moments and instead of letting life shut you down and make you more afraid, you use those very same moments of time to soften and to open and to become more kind. More kind to yourself for starters as the basis for becoming more kind to others"</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>Brian Russohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16691148637452440215noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367069805214238248.post-91344306723187128742011-04-14T11:59:00.000-07:002011-04-14T11:59:15.593-07:00John Lennon on love and sex<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><!--StartFragment--> <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Experts" called Entity theorists call for us to believe that human abilities exist within us i</span></span><span style="color: #111111; font-size: 15pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">n a finite supply that we cannot increase. Only so much toothpaste in the tube to squeeze. While certain barriers will determine physical abilities, that can be bettered by practice, this theory falls into a group think about scientists having a very limited view on human potential and only derived value in the first place because most of recorded history has been fueled by racist, agist, sexist, religionist, androcentric, ethnocentric ... etc. barriers to potential which have naturally kept people down and less-focused on other areas of 'self' development. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #111111; font-size: 15pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beware the Scylla's tentacles! This juxtapose is the origin of the phrase "In between a rock and a hard place"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/n/napoleonhi152856.html" style="line-height: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Napoleon Hill</span></span></a></span></td></tr>
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In this multiverse, lets split ourselves first into being both the conductor and the train itself. The spiral spiral track we ride determined by environment and hereditary weather on the chronological tracks of existence can be daunting. But seeking knowledge and fun organically sees the ride smoothly and swims through the severest of sensations. There have been certain "rules" "norms" and "values" instilled and imposed on us by other conductors, some of them in groups which have caressed our paths in different directions. Without their basic imposed culture, we would have flown off the tracks long ago and never again touch the rails.<br />
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We are indeed indebted to those who keep us on the fresh, untrammeled paths of living. Yet when other have affected us to "be" in certain ways, or forcefully impose their will on the liberty of our actions.<br />
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Whatever the cause, continually traveling paths that evoke the rusting-rain of anger, delusion and greed - frequently grinding our wheels over the same behaviors- make some habit stations incredibly harder to alter. Yet the opposite is also true when we mindfully guide our mass of grey matter in accordance to the multiple possible intelligences we have (body, linguistic, existential, naturalistic, inter and intra personal, logical-mathematical, bodily-kinesthetic and spatial. Why don't our conductors practice riding routes more skillfully, is it that they've been trick by their "self" and society or simply not taught the 'right' things to master their elements? Slinking, wide slippery graceful, samurai steps, with couthe cowboy confidence and charisma, thats the smooth criminal course I care to cavort.<br />
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Meditation or yoga which is one of those 'right' activities to mastering the mind-body dualities, attaining peace of mind, etc. can make the ride pass more smoothly. Considering that a<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> number of studies have linked meditation practice to functionally changing the physical structures of the brain in areas of attention, anxiety, depression and fear, we are given pause to think. Or not thinking, depending on whether or not the thought will release dopamine, seratonin or the stress-induced cortisol. </span><br />
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What is masculine, what is feminine? What is gay or straight?, what is the right way to 'behave' ? Which taboos should be heeded? Question everything you emphasize with respect to your conductor's time. The ride won't last forever, so make each twist and bend unforgettable.<br />
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</div></div>Brian Russohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16691148637452440215noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367069805214238248.post-79507987049397672692011-04-11T22:37:00.000-07:002011-04-11T22:39:36.989-07:00The anthill and the masters<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I shot a hot silver slug of mental perspicacity at a silo and was surprised to see grain pour out the side like magma flow at pompeii. All the tiny ant citizenry on the ground were covered in an instant. Those not crushed to death by the tyranny of golden edibles realigned with valor to rebuild the colony. Atom the ant, a young adult by ant standards was not too keen on the way things had been run by his predecessors. He thought they were rather daft when it came to the myths the 'master' ants relayed to the population about the meaning of life, purpose and pursuit of happiness. The "expert" ants worked with the master ants to justify their rule of the magistracy on the basis of superior acumen over the less mentally observant ants. They concentrated all the power and comfortable living at the top of ant-society and relegated the rest to the bidding of the colony which they overworked for greater riches. Atom was being groomed for this society, of which he wanted no part of but the recent natural disasters gave him the chance to change everything. In the old times the ant experts advised invading neighboring hills to expand their resources. This seemed to get the ants embroiled in more trouble than ever. When Atom crawled out of the grain that day he had a blurry hazy amalgamation of ideas as new waves of sunlight washed over his abdomen. He knew he had to move in the direction of his dreams. The other survivor ants regurgitated the platitudes and maxims of the old regime. Yet Atom remained calm and his silence reverberated, speaking volumes over the cacophony of vapid ants with their bold illusions and false consciousness. He proclaimed to them humbly, "Our armies whether they be of ants fighting other ants or masses attached to ideas about what the "experts" tell them is true, have been misled. Wake up my fellow ants! The master ants were greedy to their own ends and did not pus us foremost in their self-centered plans for glory.<br />
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Our allegiance to them, our armies can be reduced and abolished only in opposition to the will, but never by the will of the ant magistracy. If we're gonna start an antopia we might as well make the cornerstone inquisitiveness. We should have listened to the experts sure, but we should not have always been so dependent on them to tell us the answer to everything because we've stopped listening to our own hearts and common sense. The egoism of individual ants have blinded us all into living lives that are stressful and unproductive to the caring of our own hill by attacking other hills that are not directly concerned with us. By neglecting the livelihood of our own hill, it has never reached its full potential. We are the power to change our circumstances first we must alter our egos to forge the highest hill" There was much consensus amongst the workers who cheered. I would like to say this tale has a happy ending, but months into Atom's administration, the old greedy egoic forces marshaled against him, with slander and pincers, they crushed his most loyal supporters and were able to remold the minds of the ants, devolving them back to the ways of the old regime. But the embers have been lit of this fire and those treasured ants who remember Atom's benevolence shall strive to re-attain what has been lost. They know the masters are but ants and subject to folly, a folly only they can prevent from manifesting into tyranny.<br />
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The fire can only grow brighter.</div>Brian Russohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16691148637452440215noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367069805214238248.post-83123890620953247362011-04-06T19:52:00.000-07:002011-04-06T19:52:25.267-07:00Cosmotrippin to the beat of the apocalypse<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><!--StartFragment--> <br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 20pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here is perfect solitude, undisturbed by any gradation or continuous succession, radiant with the potency and freedom of its self-nature which is the self-nature of Noble Wisdom — blissfully peaceful, with the serenity of Perfect Love</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9j-ctiZ_2tzILLwfOomXc-hvcC5xprFcYhIMbUxYzPxTVyHIFjCXovvKWnlgDcO79ldbVtfU8tHfXcZYXjfSYt120ZOXbupbYnA8DLrDBEtxRg1C83YZBnDHWlBNtGB-WPNuMBojwem7N/s1600/holyfirekundalini.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9j-ctiZ_2tzILLwfOomXc-hvcC5xprFcYhIMbUxYzPxTVyHIFjCXovvKWnlgDcO79ldbVtfU8tHfXcZYXjfSYt120ZOXbupbYnA8DLrDBEtxRg1C83YZBnDHWlBNtGB-WPNuMBojwem7N/s1600/holyfirekundalini.gif" /></a></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 20.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 20.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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</span></div><div class="d" style="margin-right: 15.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> It's deceptively simple yet gradually attainable, as Ken Wilber says, the task is to transform "higher states into permanent traits." Jim Carey discusses this higher-state as "being thrown into this expansive amazing feeling of freedom from myself and my problems. I saw I was bigger than what I do, I was everything and everyone. I was no longer a fragment of the universe, I was the universe. and ever since that day, I've been trying to get back there. It comes and it goes, its like riding a wave, sometimes I'm on, sometimes I'm off, but at least I know where I want to go, and I want to take as many people with me as I possibly can because the feeling is amazing!"</span></div><div class="d" style="margin-right: 15.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="d" style="margin-right: 15.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Once we swim in these streams, we understand what transpersonal psychologist Stanislav Grof meant when he said, "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Spiritual intelligence acquired in the process of experiential self-exploration has the power to override the scientistic worldview of materialistic science while effectively acting as a remedy to counteract the dogmas of organized religions." Only then, is Our </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">intrinsic, effulgent indwelling potency for becoming a Buddha</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, A Christ, a Wayshower realized.</span></div><div class="d" style="margin-right: 15.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</div> jutting out into the azure waters of people and possibility, the flashes of silver fins and pearly whites are nothing what they seem<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-4ZY3TfXNj-878wMd7kgrv6lZkz7jUx2wMwotqSz1sLmqdxJk1YLwMu2oNqLxUKwk8E3VNOl-P_Y4LfXOEWYCpxwUYfZj6PnoAKWI4CTBH7WU63_fdUhMN5u7YM4RWxpPZQVFpmnHqV1Z/s1600/longexposure_52.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-4ZY3TfXNj-878wMd7kgrv6lZkz7jUx2wMwotqSz1sLmqdxJk1YLwMu2oNqLxUKwk8E3VNOl-P_Y4LfXOEWYCpxwUYfZj6PnoAKWI4CTBH7WU63_fdUhMN5u7YM4RWxpPZQVFpmnHqV1Z/s320/longexposure_52.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>On this dazzling roundup of swimming smiles, whirring in the frenetic light of just another night.</div>Brian Russohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16691148637452440215noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367069805214238248.post-18254486671991899722011-04-05T12:01:00.000-07:002011-04-05T12:01:52.305-07:00The First Principle - What's your perceptual framework for meaning?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Once a novice asked a Zen master, “Master, what is the first principle?” Without hesitation, the master replied, "If I were to tell you, it would become the second principle.” The first principle cannot be said. The most important thing cannot be said, and that which can be said will not be the first principle. The moment truth is uttered it becomes a lie; the very utterance is a falsification. So all the scriptures of all the religions contain the second principle, not the first principle. They contain lies, not the truth, because the truth cannot be contained by any word whatsoever, the truth can only be experienced. The truth can be lived, but there is no way to say it.<b><br />
</b>Osho Rajneesh, an Indian mystic affirms that silence is the only door, the only approach to the heart of the first principle. The primordial state of our being can only be reached when we "get out of our head," ending the tyranny of habitual thought that causes are monkey minds to grab on vine after the other. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Thinking is secondary, existence precedes thinking. First you are and then you start thinking, on average 80,000 a day. Osho calls thinking a shadow activity that follows you, unable to exist without you, yet you cannot exist without it. To quote Osho, "Through thinking you can know secondary things, not the primary things. The most fundamental is not available to thinking; the most fundamental is available to silence. Silence means a state of consciousness where no thought interferes. The first principle is not far away, it is not distant. Never think for a single moment that you are missing it because it is very far away. It is the closest thing to you. It is the obvious thing. It surrounds you. It surrounds you just like the ocean surrounds a fish. You are in it. You are born in it and born out of it. You live in it, you breathe in it, and one day you disappear in it. It is not far away, not that you have to travel to it. It is there. It is already there around you, within and without. It is your very existence, that first principle. All the enlightened people have passed through a very strange experience: They cannot remain silent because now they know something which they would like to share, but when they try to share they find that it is not the same when you say it; it is something else. The real thing is left behind, only the word reaches the other person"</span><br />
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The moment we divide reality, it becomes the second principle. AS Osho says, "The second is a shadow; the first is the original. Zen has made one of the greatest leaps of human consciousness when it says that the world is God and there is no other God. The creation is the creator, there is no other creator. The very creativity is divine. It is not like a painter who is different from his painting. It is like a dancer who is one with his dance. God is one with his existence. God is his existence. In fact, to say "God is" is tautological, it is a repetition, because "God" means the same thing that "is" means. God is isness. All that is divine." </span><br />
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Life for the seeker is defined by a quest to illuminate the truth and live in accordance with it. This challenge has eradicated much ignorance for the seeker, but provides more questions than answers.<br />
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What is wrong with the world? We are. What is right with the world? We are.<br />
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It is incumbent upon the compassionate and wise to transform our way of living for the betterment of all beings. The society we are a party of is lost. It has been owned and enslaved to a distorted ideology that has obscured the moral path of humanity under a veil of dim light. As we grow closer to comprehending the ultimate nature of reality, we must counteract the forces of fear and all its inertia to universal harmony by empowering all sentient beings to live in the light of freedom and love.<br />
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“The Game” begins when the player realizes the consequences of the end game: Scarcity, poverty, depression and the fascist control of the few over the rights of the many. The Game initiates when there is a realization that the biggest lie, the grandest theft, was the willingly enslavement of civilizations to a corruption beyond the scope of comprehension. The power that is held by the elites is based on the giving up of each individual’s sacred labors and the fruits thereof. When the injustices of the fiat money system are discovered understood or felt, there is a realization that money does not come from a building, a government, or from a so-called powerful or rich person, but from the value of each individual’s labor and the moment there is an agreement that abundance is a natural and sovereign right of everyone on the planet to have what is created by their effort and to be free of enslavement by those who would use their will over another. The idea of freedom and prosperity comes into the mind of that will and wish for power to create their own destiny, for better or worse.<br />
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As long as you breathe and want something, you are a player. This is a game and we want to win. The question is the first thing that comes into your mind: “What do I want?” Then another, "what do I have?"<br />
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Then you have begun the Game because you are thinking for yourself and seeing what you want and what you have. You have now become a player. You are now free to find others to begin the game with. You cannot play alone and you are not alone. In this game you are only in control of your wants and your needs but you are in total control of what you have and what you want.<br />
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The second move of the game, the first being sharing your message with one other person, is to awake to being a wayshower: the joyous, strong, devoted, wise loving soul, free from fear that is your pure essence. You pray this night, this day this morning to be the best you can be, to find in yourself the willing heart to see with the eyes of a new being. </span><br />
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In this prayer, you change the evolution of your being through the power of your conscious awareness to manifest your light, your very being in accord with the energies being evoked and being received to become enlightened receptacles.<br />
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With the first move, you create inspiration for a new day where you are building the new world on new foundations with other wayshowers who are guided to walk this path by the teachings of light. They see this truth and feel this oneness, which is the binding love that brings us together.</span><br />
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The evolutionary breakthrough to new conscious awareness is achieved and lived by those wayshowers on the leading edge who are on the quest and accept this destiny given to them by the teachers of light. Awakened Wayshowers bring forth the future vision of reality. You are a wayshower in the first circle of the leading edge, a member, friend and co-creator of the righteous game.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">As equals, our third move is to bring forth evolutionary ideas and transformational formulas to other circles. Our first community of wayshowers is a matrix point with an allegiance whose strong synergistic appreciation and multilateral communications has the power to change the world.<br />
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Our circular operational association within the Game is tasked with the enhancement of the right brain, the intuitive elements of the mind to increase telepathy and connect to the holographic planetary system. Through the method of attunement to congenial thoughts within the mental body and then the entrainment (brain synchronization) to consensual feelings with the emotional body, the alignment with the physical and non-physical worlds are completed.<br />
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Our primary objective is to coalesce, dilating the circle in ever-expanding communicative outreach to connect all beings in an overarching framework of love. The path across the bridge of this life is through honesty, sincerity and balance.<br />
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The mega powers corrupting the world are all in the same world you are in and they rely on one crucial thing: the people of the world, the constituency. This is where power resides and this is the public power that can bring about the evolution we believe is possible. You know the secret. We must work to bring together a movement with congenial spirits who have been through the same realizations and understand the importance of creating the constructive circle to end suffering and win the game.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">See how far the Rabbit Hole really goes.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"> We are bombs with infinite fuses for creation, destruction and preservation, constant human explosions emitting our essence into people, places and thing, destined to impact the landscape of world consciousness. The field of combat is littered with the carrion of cognitive dissonances as well as the blossoming flowers of authentic being. Sometimes we let our inauthentic ego get the best of us and target others instead of our own underlying suffering , or let delusive ideology be a B-52 that discharges our steely hot anger and frustration on innocent parties. So what good upstanding bombs would we be if we did not examine our own wiring? Can we really choose what sets us off?, when and how we detonate and what is worth detonating for? Or is the myopia of a zenophobic, jingoistic, androcentric, and most frighteningly a-spiritual world enough to force us into a blissful ignorance of non-consideration and misplaced empathy?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Our life was detonated at the moment of conception, it has already happened and the energy within us is going to leave that bomb one day, death it is going to happen – it is a certainty. It is far from morose to acknowledge that birth marks the first step taken into the grave. The day you were pressed into existence, half the journey is already complete; the remaining half will take a little time... or a little more, before the last fuse is lit. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f1c232;">With life, death has also penetrated you: Now only one thing remains that you can do, something that depends on you, and that is love, to love the bomb you are, and the wiring you have the potential to alter to become the most compassionate, wise dazzling being possible.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>And because discovery love depends on you, and which fuses you decide to light, there is every possibility you may miss lighting the most sublime fuses we inherently possess.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f1c232;"> That is the agony of love: YOU CAN MISS IT. If you don't do something, if you don't become alert, IF YOU DON'T CONSCIOUSLY & DELIBERATELY MOVE TOWARDS LIGHTING YOUR OWN LAMP OF AWESOMENESS YOU MAY MISS YOUR CHANCE, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f1c232;"></span>There is every possibilit<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">y that you may not be able to trigger your character, your novel existence. Hence the fear, the trembling, the anguish and anxiety about whether “you” will be about to make “it.” Yet, the trepidations imprinted on us by those who wire us do not have to define us to the extent we have left them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our wiring says, "Will I be able to move into love?" "Will I be able to flow into love?" But side by side with this agony, there is an ecstasy -- that one is free. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">This freedom, this transcendent, indescribable way of approaching all phenomena is open to everyone yet squandered through the craving of ignorance, greed and hatred on personal, state and international levels. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">In this anarchic world directed by the success of the powerful elites, your personal narrative, characterized by a yearning for freedom counter to the separateness of fear, is the key, the tool, to understanding the potential for efficacy you possess is much greater than what society has told you it possible.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hope is when you stop worrying about the bomb others want you to be and love the bomb you are, desiring to manifest aesthetic excellence and be the self-fulfilling prophecy towards that end. As Henly wrote prophetically, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">“<i>I am the Master of my Fate, I am the Captain of my Soul.</i>”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Embrace the boundlessness of self-determinant agency and explode in the myriad multivalent directions devoid of fear. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">For it is fear that compromises our wiring most of all to separate us from love. Yet, our bomb cannot even activate without fear, which exists because of freedom. Mastery of freedom, precision and discrimination of our wiring restructures our minds for total ecstasy sans anxiety and makes the journey worth sailing skillfully.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">If love was also predestined, as life and death are, then there would have been no fear, but then there would have been no ecstasy either -- because <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f1c232;">ECSTASY IS POSSIBLE ONLY WHEN YOU ACHIEVE SOMETHING,</span> when consciously you choose something, when deliberately you arrive somewhere, when it is YOUR journey and you are not being dragged. That's the beauty of love and that's the danger too, <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The time is now to detonate, you bright bombs of breathtaking ebullient bliss! <o:p></o:p></span></div><!--EndFragment--> </div>Brian Russohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16691148637452440215noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367069805214238248.post-17143081790070052882011-04-03T18:39:00.000-07:002011-04-03T18:39:10.273-07:00What is Awesome?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Awesome is<br />
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Writing your own personal narrative, being a player in this game, fully aware of the consequences and yearning to forge the most legendary existence possible.</div>Brian Russohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16691148637452440215noreply@blogger.com3