Another funny thing about life:
The more meaningful it is, the less of a contest it is;
And the less meaningful it is, the more of a contest it seems to be.
Those who are losing greatly or winning greatly are a little bit more able to see through the whole game;
Those who are winning just a little bit are often the most absorbed.
Intention (the Subliminal) is the Inhale;
Expression (Action) is the Exhale.
Observe the Inhale to know when and how much to Exhale;
Observe the Exhale to know when and how much to Inhale.
Did them before going to work today.
Oops, meant to get to 150. Did the mental math wrong. Iāll do 3 more right now.
Okay. Did 10 more.
Now time to get a quick bite and then get out the door.
Wow. I became so mired and stuck (mentally) for a while as I was trying to create my remarks. Got some real impostor syndrome and self-doubt for a while in there.
Then somehow in the past 90 minutes or so, things cleared up and I got it hashed out.
Sheesh. Pretty interesting, I suppose.
Nice one.
And Journaling is the Breath Meditation.
Nice.
Just finished giving the talk to the students. I felt like they had great attitudes about the whole thing.
It went fine. But more than anything makes me feel inspired to want to do more for them.
Other than that.
Listened to 3:03 of PHENOMENAUT this morning. One week since previous listen. Took it shorter this time.
Was fortunate to get a morning meditation in today. Currently, Iām preferring those to evening meditations; though to be fair, those are pretty great too.
Got to watch to see whatās actually going on in the world.
People are really complicated
The thingsāthe factorsāthat inform who a person is are numerous;
And the things that inform where a person is headed; even more so.
The more and the better that you can understand a thing;
The less that force and domination will be needed for you to achieve mastery of it.
3:18 of BUILD today
Weāre back on it.
Three minutes of PHENOMENAUT Genesis followed by 1 hour of meditation.
Now we shower and then go up to office to take care of some tasks.
This is the Faraday Future FF91.
Itās currently priced at 309,000USD (with an annual 14000 cloud service subscription), can accelerate from 0-100 km/h in around 2.5 seconds, boasts impressive range for an electric vehicle, and can park itself.
And if you gifted one to this guy:
He would be very happy to receive a lockable food storage box. Great for keeping bananas safe!
He doesnāt know how to drive a car and has no meaningful context for all of those incredible features of the FF91.
I feel that we human primates are a bit similar when it comes to the priceless treasures with which we are giftedāfree of charge-- at birth: Attention, Intention, and Imagination. Together with corporeality and numerous others.
We are currently too primitive to have much of a sense of how to use these treasures of Consciousness. And so, thus far, we have basically used them to do more or less what most other primates would have done: consolidate power, amass and store resources, compete for petty opportunities and so on.
Itās impressive, sure; in the way that a very, very large hamburger is impressive:
But also seems like a bit of a waste. A little silly.
You were given consciousness and the capacity to contemplate the Infinite, and you used it toā¦store bananas?
Still loving this:
Played 3:33 of Renaissance Man: VIBES ultrasonic (while listening to that song up above actually).
Prior to that, played about 45 seconds to a minute of VIBES in masked when I was setting up the volume levels.
Iām liking the physical responses and changes with my current calisthenics training. The physical changes are much less aggressive than when I was doing heavy weight workouts in the gym. Yet, I can still feel real changes happening. They are more gradual and subtle with this approach.
So far, the main focus is still push-ups, but Iāve been including pull-ups in a more relaxed way. Iāll just stop at a bar sometimes and do between 10 and 12 L-sit pull-ups. But once I feel ready, Iāll approach the pull-ups in a similarly structured way to the push-ups. And then, Iāll start preparing to integrate bodyweight squats later on. Those are my big three.
Push-ups/Dips, Pull-ups, and Squats. And Iād just like to really cement those over a long period of time. Then when Iām happy enough with those, Iāll return to weights in the gym. But Iād like to do them in a more controlled way. Not maxing out anything. Just being balanced and consistent.
We shall see.
Alright, hereās a baseline for Renaissance Man: VIBES.
This is the last thing I composed before playing VIBES today.
I created this sketch last Saturday night. Just something relaxing before bed. I think I spent about 45 minutes or so, to sketch out the 5 parts of it. Itās just one theme, developed and extended for a couple of minutes.
VIBES for me is just a fun extra right now. And I donāt even know how much Iāll play it during this period. But I did play about 4 minutes of it today. So, weāll see.
Anyway, this short sketch is a marker of where I was before I played it the first time.
hahahaha Malkuth being artsy
omg omg omg videos omg omg : D
Todayās meditation:
Finished before I expected it to finish.
At 60 minutes, I thought it was closer to 40 minutes.
