Feeling a bit challenged.
Not by the subs (as usual) but by my life.
But this seems to be how I do it.
I did have a subliminal run this morning.
So maybe there’s some relationship.
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“Clausewitz is the West’s major military theorist of bilateral conventional land warfare.
Sun-Tzu is Han civilization’s great theorist of how you maintain power in a continental empire multilateral world using coercion and deception.”
Sarah Paine from " How Mao Conquered China"
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Did you ever read:
Napoleon’s Maxims of War
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Never have. This is not a subject with which I’m deeply conversant. I just like her style.
How do you like the Napoleon book?
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I find her very knowledgeable on world history. Her interviews are very fascinating due to her indepth and objective analysis.
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Two 3-hour meetings today: 10 am to 1 pm; 2:30 to 5:30.
I have time to meditate first, so that’s what I’m about to do.
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THE CONFIDENCE
to stand on your own two; and
to support and sustain an account of what’s really happening and how you really feel about it
Just found myself thinking about the dominant economic models and the most conventionally established practices at this time (e.g., subscription-based services, planned obsolescence, etc.).
The confidence and the strength that it takes to look at the EMPEROR and say, ‘Wait a minute. I don’t care how powerful he is, how successful he is, how many women adore him, how much he controls…. That guy is naked.’
Forget speaking truth to power; just sustaining a view of what’s really happening is already an amazing accomplishment.
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Something is definitely happening.
Certain thoughts are becoming clearer.
It’s pretty wild.
It feels like I’m learning.
Feels pretty Dragon Reborn Gold-related.
I’ve been wondering about how long I’ll stay with Stage 2. The description says that this is a more gradual (and possibly subtle) stage that is able to reach areas that Stage 1 might not have. Tomorrow will begin my 8th week with it. And I guess I did more spiky, flashing developments with Stage 1. And I suppose I do feel deeper and more gradual movements and realizations with Stage 2. Anyway, we’ll see next week whether I’ll stay with Stage 2 throughout May (as I’m leaning towards) or whether we’ll move into Stage 3.
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Thoughts Today:
I have never been a big fan of the concept of self-sabotage, but I can understand it and how it comes about. When you are not properly in touch with your nature, you tend to live by contrived, externally-derived rules, markers, and heuristics. However, reasonable or necessary they may appear, if they involve disconnecting from your reality and your nature, then they can only end in dissolution and disintegrity. It’s not because the specifics of those concerns are somehow bad. Concluding this is missing the point. It’s not the detail of the rule or reference point; it’s the placing of it in primacy, ahead of Nature, and your own nature. That’s the error.
So, it’s more about the relationship to it, than about it itself.
The obsession with or fixation on impressing others encapsulates this dynamic. It’s not that other people are not important or worthy of thought. It’s that they should not be place don your throne. They simply do not belong there. They belong in the world; but just not in that spot of the world.
By aligning to what is right, we naturally relegate people, conditions, and circumstances to their proper positions. Advisors, reflections, beautifiers of our world, conveyors of insight and information. All of these are appropriate roles. But sovereign centers, and establishers of Rightness of Being or Rightness of Fit?
Those are wrong.
With the right prioritization thus established, we naturally do not fixate or obsess on externalized, projected centers of meaning and legitimacy.
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Wow I was writing about that literally last night. What a beautiful thing to see.
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Money does not buy happiness, but poverty may underwrite unhappiness.
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You’ve got to live this life as yourself.
Make that a reward, not a punishment.
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It is very difficult to deeply understand a person’s life from their own experiential perspective and not love them.
Stretch that imagination.
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Possession/Cultivation of a stable base is vital to the proper enjoyment of adventure.
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Play the subliminal
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Forget about the subliminal
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Pretend you believe in yourself
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Do something
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