Today was a subliminal day.
With meditation, as usual, played by two beloved titles:
Ecstasy of the Golden One (name-embedded major) and Dragon Reborn Gold: A Dragon Reborn.
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I am not tough at all, but I grew up around a culture of toughness. Or, maybe more accurately, I grew up between that culture and other ones.
The result was feeling like a ghost.
As a child, we look to those outside of us and around us to tell us who we are, and if youâre unable to participate sufficiently in whatever arbitrary rituals, contests, etc., are around you and that are used to establish worth, value, and status, thereâs a resultant feeling of decreased reality.
Of course, there have been many other experiences over the years and decades since then, but I am aware that this is part of what Dragon Reborn Gold is working on with me.
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I am also finding myself receiving insights about Field-consciousness and Field-phenomena.
Figure-Ground Reversal
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Connecting more to the Field aspects of qi-development or energy practices.
Practicing the taijiquan form with awareness of Field, or awareness-as-Field, for example, is so full of possibility.
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Often times as youâre building strength from a Figure-perspective; youâre simultaneously clearing blockages from a Field- or Ground-perspective.
Itâs not one or the other; itâs that both are Paradigm Options. Ways, alternate ways, of understanding or organizing the exact same processes and conditions.
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As you walk the path of seeking evolution and mastery there are two Giant Monsters who will bar your wayâPAIN and BOREDOM.
PAIN and BOREDOM
Running away from them is no solution. âKilling themâ is no solution. Obsessively worshipping them, no solution.
The solution is to LIVE WITH THEM while continuing to follow your path.
As you do this, a funny thing will happen. Not quickly. Not all at once. And not in a linear fashion.
They will start to shrink.
At some point in that process, you will find that what used to be Monsters, have now become Friends. They are friends who talk to you but who you can ignore at will.
And this is a whole new challenge.
The challenge now is to avoid complacency and self-satisfaction.
You do this not by âBeating Yourself Upâ, but by Intentionally Listening to your friends, Pain and Boredom. Learning from them by choice.
And as you continue to learn from them, another curious thing will happen.
They will begin to grow.
At some point in this process, they will become your Guardians. (By this point, their names have changed many times.)
Guardians.
Pain and Boredom.
Speeding and protecting your path to mastery.
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itâs not only disease that is undiagnosed or misdiagnosed; it is also talents and gifts.
And there are many people walking around with undiagnosed gifts; or even worse, with gifts that have been misdiagnosed as only problems, weaknesses, or disease.
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The retrograde blesses you and you bless the retrograde.
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And we both bless you, my friend.
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It can be very tricky to detect how something can be a great strength and how to utilize it when it looks like a huge problem from miles away. Especially when itâs not utilized and on the contrary, cripples. It really hit me two days back. Iâve seen people that are so different from majority being looked down upon. And they suffer too. At first you think âif they could just change this thing that seems to be so deeply engraved in them they could live betterâ but then you think âmaybe thatâs just who they are⌠maybe they could find a way to thrive as they are⌠but fuck I have no clue how right now hahahahaa and even if I could, they probably wouldnât go there anyway hahaha
Those are probably things that bloom with time naturally for every person. There is this thing Iâve noticed that people take action not when itâs clear, but when they feel like itâs the right time. As if we had some inner clock in us. It doesnât always have a clear reason for why we have waited and not just done it the moment we knew we will. I think this clock is the reason for why we get so defensive when someone is trying to force and rush us into something. Even if itâs what we want.
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When things are going right,
the programs that I run are a Reflection and Expression of my path;
not the other way round.
So, in those conditions, I canât play a wrong program.
My path sets the tone; the program enhances it. Inflects it.
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The Universe is an ongoing, open-ended, dynamic process;
with about 999 quadrillion metric tonnes of water under the bridge.
Talk about baggage.
If you donât find a way to reset, there will always be numerous currents and flows to get pulled into.
Our planet is estimated to be 4.4 billion years old. If the average human life is 85 years, that would be about 52 million separate back-to-back generations of human beings, with each likely living as if they were the only one that really mattered. As we still do to this day.
But based on the fossil record, we humans (modern versions) have been around for around 300000 years. So thatâs more like 3500 generations of human beings, running around.
But if you count our somewhat dissimilar hominin ancestors, we go back to Sahelanthropus Tchadensis who was here, walking two-leggedly, 7 million years ago. And there are a number of others.
Thatâs a lot of ancestral weight to carry. A lot of resources, lived experiences, deaths, lives, and everything in between.
Dive into the ancestral dust.
But remember that Reset button.
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You have the rightâindeed the RESPONSIBILITYâto create your Path.
Simultaneously, you also have no guarantee that it will work.
Iterate. Iterate. Iterate.
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Journaling is really, really helpful.
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Today, I took the opportunity to do full, out loud readings of the product descriptions for Alchemist and Godlike Masculinity.
I think that once I complete this run of Dragon Reborn, my next program is likely to be The Alchemist.
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I think that is right up your alley, ćşć §ĺ¤§ĺ¸ !
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Too funny!
There are a lot of basic, âcommon-senseâ assumptions that are simply not true.
They are not âidioticâ or âfoolishâ or âridiculousâ.
Itâs more like they are âpracticallyâ true. Or true âfor all intents and purposesâ. In other words, they âmight as well beâ true.
They just happen to not be.
One tried-and-true example is the whole âsunrise/sunsetâ thing.
It âmight as well be trueâ that the sun ârisesâ each morning and âsetsâ each evening. Approaching your life âas ifâ this is true, will yield repeatable, solid, and good results.
Itâs only that it just so happens to be not be true. Thatâs all.
But since it âmight as well beâ, then itâs not a bad idea to live your life as if itâs true.
Thereâs a very long, probably endless, list of similar cases.
âCome back to your sensesâ, âstand on solid groundâ, and âface realityâ.
These might as well be true. And itâs a pretty good idea to live âas ifâ they are.
Thereâs a kind of basic, common-sense assumption that the default condition for those who are not actively escaping from things is to be âin touch with realityâ. In this view, if you simply âstop being absurd/immature/foolishâ and âopen your eyes/ears/etc., and observeâ, then your default condition will be to be âin touch with realityâ.
Might as well be true. (Practically, true.)
A useful and effective approach.
And also utterly untrue.
One thing you learn sooner or later in meditation is that your default state of awareness is NOT in touch with reality.
And I donât mean because âyouâre not concentratingâ or âyouâre not paying attentionâ.
Iâm saying that when you bring a high-quality of focused attention and a mature, balanced state of mind and unflinchingly face and observe the world, you are NOT in touch with reality.
Reality is way, way, way above our pay-grade.
We generally do not make the cut.
Thatâs nothing to be ashamed of.
Itâs just true.
The best and most advanced accounts of and engagements with What Is that we have collectively achieved to this point are not getting it done.
And they donât have to.
Our priority has always been survival and adaptation. And weâve, by and large, done that.
Facing Reality is something else entirely.
And even this simple point that Iâve elaborated above. Even that. We have barely even managed to face that.
In other words, forget about Reality, weâve barely got any perspective on our limitations. Theyâre so fundamental that we donât even notice them.
And thatâs okay.
Just interesting.
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As an example.
The Sun.
I grew up with depictions of the Solar System that looked something like this:
Beautiful and awesome.
And practical.
Hereâs the thing.
The volume of the visible Sun?
LookâŚ
The Sun, and weâre just talking the visible Sun, has a volume that is 1,300,000 times that of planet Earth.
In the pictures, we draw for ourselves, itâs about 10 to 15 times bigger. And thatâs understandable and fair. We canât actually draw things as they are.
But itâs 1.3 million times bigger than Earth.
Try to imagine that.
If you were successful, then congratulations, you faced Reality.
Iâll be honest and say that it gives me a little trouble. (âA littleâ in this case meaning utter impossibility over a 10 to 20 year period of time.)
Working on it.
And thatâs one star. Out of an estimated 100 to 150 billion stars in just one galaxy.
Most people, pragmatically, donât give a s**t about this.
Hence, most people, pragmatically, donât give a s**t about Reality.
And theyâre right.
And also Wrong.
p.s. if we were to talk about the radiant volume of the Sun, it dwarfs the visible volume. Subsuming Earth and even the outer planets.
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