The MALKUTH Catharsis (Malkuth Journal)

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#304

What Makes You A Fool:

You assume the 99% that you cannot perceive, based on the 1% that you can perceive.

Here’s the formula:

Selective Attention + Exaggerated Comprehension

This is one reason that you can convince yourself that you want someone who does not care well for you.

You assume and believe in the 99% that you cannot perceive, based on the 1% that you can perceive.

It should also be said: This is also what enables you to live a decent life here on Earth.

(Note: the 1% that you can perceive comprises those things that the necessity of survival forces you to perceive. The other 99% involve Wisdom: things that are not required for survival, but that are required for understanding.)

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#305

Today started with a 9 am meeting. Now it’s 2 pm and I’m just getting ready to meditate (with subs today). Another meeting scheduled for 9 pm tonight. Everything’s online these days.

Liking this new pushups program better than the previous one. I’m feeling the benefits gradually.

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#306

Sometimes the trick is finding the places where you can be you.

Then valuing the hell out of them.

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#307

9 pm. Just doing my meditation for today.

Left for an appointment this morning at 8:40 am, and never got back to this until now.

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#308

The Infinite

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#309

The Earth itself our greatest and most foundational symbol of grounded (notice that term), solid, stability is itself floating and speeding freely and unsupported through space.

Earth (tangible embodiment) flying through space (Consciousness).

Learn from this.

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#310

Sometimes freedom the prison of your current situation does not mean Destroying Your Current Conditions;

sometimes it means expanding your awareness so that it attains and accesses both those originla conditions and what was always-already beyond them.

In other words, freedom from a locked room only requires a key, it does not require destruction of the room. The moment that you have access to the key, that room transforms from a prison into a resource, potentially even a valued home.

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#311

Yo Malkuth

Consider buying some wooden olympic rings, if you haven’t done so already. With the kind of rep ranges you go for in terms of pushups, your joints are gonna give you trouble sooner or later if you keep doing them on the floor.
I used to have problems with my wrists when I did diamond pushups on the floor years ago, and I also had trouble with my elbows and tendons in my upper arms when I did lots of pullups.
The changed grip that rings force you into instantly solved all these problems for me(neutral grip for pullups instead of supinated or pronated, and doing various types of pushups on rings above the ground). Plus, they’re way more fun and give you more possibilities. The added instability will also further challenge your muscles. They’re really great for hypertrophy based workout programs, which is what I am doing, but you’ll find them beneficial as well.

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#312

You’re psychic, @GoldenBird.

I’ve just brought pull-ups online, and am going back to the basics on my portable trapeze-style bar. Think I’m going to put it in my office.

I have rings. Not wooden, but Nayoya gymnastic style. Haven’t used them yet, but things seem to be moving in that direction.

Slowly and steadily.

Thank you. :pray:t5:

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#313

Hmmm…

Is it possible that, by definition, I don’t already know what I’m going to learn before I learn it?

And is it possible that this condition is in fact the basic nature of knowledge and learning?

Hmm…

So is it also possible that, such being the case, the appropriate emotions and attitudes to this process of ongoing learning and unfolding are not desperation, yearning, and desire, but rather enthusiasm, equanimity, and humble appreciation?

Hmmm…

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#314

Where do you like to put your feet when you use the rings for push-ups style movements? Are you doing more dips-like exercises? Or something else?

EDIT:

After more thought, I imagine you are extending the rings so that the strap length leaves them suspended just above the ground. Then you can keep the form of conventional pushups but have the benefits of neutral grip and fluid instability of base. I’m looking forward to trying that too.

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#315

One of the trickiest elements of life is Sensations.

We talk about Issues and Points and Ideas.

But so often it’s Sensations that win the day.

Just this morning, I returned to a point in my life from a previous relationship decades ago to actually re-experience it. It’s a period that I have ‘talked about’ many times, but there’s a difference between ‘talking about’ something and re-experiencing it.

When I re-experienced it, I remembered more of the sensations from that time. I remembered, ‘Oh yeah, I was actually in love with that woman.’ The ‘being in love with’ came down to a set of sensations that I was experiencing at that time. I observed that I had been remembering the facts, but not the feelings.

Skill, competence (and luck) in navigating feelings and sensations may be some of the greatest abilities that there are.

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#316

What I’m doing with meditation is cultivating a relationship with being, experiencing, and consciousness.

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#317

Did an evening meditation tonight.

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#318
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#319

JBYMTT

Most people talk as if Perceiving Reality is the default state for human beings.

You open your eyes. You see reality.

That’s how the idea goes.

The default state.

It’s not.

Perception of even a small bit of reality requires effort. It is an accomplishment. It is not the default.

The default state of perception is:

JBYMTT

Jumbled Bullshit Your Mind Threw Together

JBYMTT actually works well enough to enable you to survive most of the time. But save yourself a lot of time and don’t confuse it for Reality.

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#320

Just spent some time composing.

Bare bones elements.

Mood music.

Don’t know where it’s going to go yet, or what it will become.

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#324

Correct. You do them just like normal pushups because the rings are suspended just a bit above the ground. You have complete freedom with adjusting the angle through the straps, so you can do crazy stuff as well, if you want to. Archer pushups on Rings feel interesting on the rings. It’s a good stretch as well.
I went through the “Body by Rings” hypertrophy program for around 9 months before I modified it with my own exercise variations. I do weighted calisthenics with rings, and usually carry a box with me so that I can change the angle to make it more challenging. The Body by Rings program is designed very well to keep you in that 6-12 rep range, and through a Push-Pull-Legs type of program always proceeds from a few compound exercises(think Bulgarian Dips or Wide Angle L-Sit Pullups) to isolation exercises like Tricep Extensions or Pelican Curls. It’s basically a standard gym routine adapted to the Rings and it worked really well for me to pack on muscle.
The most important thing for me is that I found a way to make it work long-term for me without injuries. I used to do powerlifting before COVID, and at some point I nullified all my gains because I dislocated and teared my shoulder, which took half a year to recover from.
Through the Rings, I actually managed to make my shoulder joints(and other joints) really healthy! The feeling is awesome. The inherent instability of Rings really challenges you, no matter how long you’ve been working out in the gym. There is this feeling of competence that you get from weighted calisthenics that you don’t get from lifting barbells. It’s something similar to what you get from rock climbing. You eventually become able to do really functional stuff, like pulling your body up with a few fingers of one hand. That feeling is amazing. Connects with something primal in us.

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#325

Relate. Relate. Relate.

That is beautiful.

Awesome.

Here we go.

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