Trust your heart.
The mind, by contrast, will forever tie us in knots.
Rob left this comment on another blog site.
Tonight I think he is a genius.
jim said...
There is a Joy that is beyond 'enlightenment' as is normally known, this Joy is the 'sense-experience' with the final stage of the 'unfolding', once felt, 'more' becomes the goal of life. To get it to begin with is what the Guru's claim to have packaged. They haven't. They fall short of the real thing.
Instead of more acceptance of reality, the result is less acceptance of our reality in this world, and the impulse and drive to seek solutions, not escape.
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
A better path
The pressure of being habitually busy had been building for some time.
A couple weeks ago I talked my old buddy Ray into going with me on an errand that involved driving all day. We used to spend hours almost every day talking philosophy and discovering new things about god and the universe. It sustained us spiritually. It educated us. It helped propel us into a very successful adventure.
These days we are both so busy following our new and very worthwhile dream that we haven’t had time to just chat. I didn’t realize how important that was and how much we both missed it until this errand. We were alone together for eight hours of talking philosophy and discovering new things about god and the universe. It was so absorbing that we didn’t even remember driving through most of the towns on our path. It helped me realize that we have been just too busy.
When I got home after only eight hours, my email had 34 messages that needed some level of attention (not counting spam). My reaction was to shut of my computer and not turn it on again for several days. I also didn’t turn on a TV or read a newspaper for a few days. I promised myself that, at least for now, I would stop multitasking and focus more completely on one thing at a time.
Lynn and I also promoted an employee to C.O.O. and let him take the bulk of the daily busy-ness. That leaves me more free to invent and pursue spiritual aspects of life. After two weeks I feel much better; more whole; more ready to embrace a powerful new future.
A couple weeks ago I talked my old buddy Ray into going with me on an errand that involved driving all day. We used to spend hours almost every day talking philosophy and discovering new things about god and the universe. It sustained us spiritually. It educated us. It helped propel us into a very successful adventure.
These days we are both so busy following our new and very worthwhile dream that we haven’t had time to just chat. I didn’t realize how important that was and how much we both missed it until this errand. We were alone together for eight hours of talking philosophy and discovering new things about god and the universe. It was so absorbing that we didn’t even remember driving through most of the towns on our path. It helped me realize that we have been just too busy.
When I got home after only eight hours, my email had 34 messages that needed some level of attention (not counting spam). My reaction was to shut of my computer and not turn it on again for several days. I also didn’t turn on a TV or read a newspaper for a few days. I promised myself that, at least for now, I would stop multitasking and focus more completely on one thing at a time.
Lynn and I also promoted an employee to C.O.O. and let him take the bulk of the daily busy-ness. That leaves me more free to invent and pursue spiritual aspects of life. After two weeks I feel much better; more whole; more ready to embrace a powerful new future.
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Inertia, Thy name is Rochester
Many times I have waxed poetic about how incredibly basic inertia is.
I love to always look one layer lower and see what underlying components make something tick. Then I look under those components, etcetera. In physics, I keep finding that no matter how many layers down I look, we have to keep assuming that inertia works. When we get down to the most fundamental phenomena in the universe and all other familiar things are gone, inertia may still be working.
So maybe my grandson, Rochester is a fundamental force to reckon with. He achieves new heights in the enormous energy it takes to get him to stop whatever he is doing and start something new. I would give examples, but it includes almost everything.
Maybe we should get a research grant to study him and what creates his enormous inertia. We could gain new insights into the very heart of reality.
I love to always look one layer lower and see what underlying components make something tick. Then I look under those components, etcetera. In physics, I keep finding that no matter how many layers down I look, we have to keep assuming that inertia works. When we get down to the most fundamental phenomena in the universe and all other familiar things are gone, inertia may still be working.
So maybe my grandson, Rochester is a fundamental force to reckon with. He achieves new heights in the enormous energy it takes to get him to stop whatever he is doing and start something new. I would give examples, but it includes almost everything.
Maybe we should get a research grant to study him and what creates his enormous inertia. We could gain new insights into the very heart of reality.
Saturday, May 06, 2006
Play in the stream
Everything flows.
Wind and water are always in motion in little streams and eddies and in large ocean size currents. Electrons and photons are flowing everywhere. So is heat. Anything that orbits or resonates is constantly converting energy, making it flow from one form to another and back again.
Life flows. Ideas, emotions, stories, plot lines, money, wealth, attention and chi all flow through our society.
Whether it is mechanical or spiritual, when we manage to divert some of these flows to our own purposes, we call it energy.
Once we realize the huge abundance of natural flow, perhaps we will begin to understand that it is often more life affirming to align ourselves with those flows than it is to dam them, block them and channel them to selfish purposes.
Play in the stream.
Wind and water are always in motion in little streams and eddies and in large ocean size currents. Electrons and photons are flowing everywhere. So is heat. Anything that orbits or resonates is constantly converting energy, making it flow from one form to another and back again.
Life flows. Ideas, emotions, stories, plot lines, money, wealth, attention and chi all flow through our society.
Whether it is mechanical or spiritual, when we manage to divert some of these flows to our own purposes, we call it energy.
Once we realize the huge abundance of natural flow, perhaps we will begin to understand that it is often more life affirming to align ourselves with those flows than it is to dam them, block them and channel them to selfish purposes.
Play in the stream.
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