Okay, Einstein,
What we’re going to need here is for you to walk and chew gum at the same time. It’s alot but see if you can handle it.
and
Existentially, walk and chew gum at the same time.
Today, I misplaced 15 minutes out of my 1 hour meditation.
Nonetheless, the world seems to be functioning as normal.
Observe Experiencing itself.
Meta-awareness
Ontological phenomenology
What is this?
The experiential sensations of Being.
in a nutshell.
Notice that you ARE.
Now explore and investigate the sensations that convey that experience of IS-ness.
Somewhat ironically, asking, ‘Passive-aggressive much?’ is, itself, pretty passive-aggressive.
Morning thoughts today:
Sunday 21 December 2025 9:15 AM
What I’ve been thinking of as FIELD: Field awareness, Field identity, Field intelligence, is Ecological Orientation.
When this is combined with the protean potential of Consciousness…
Consciousness is the original ‘extraterrestrial’, the original ‘unseen visitor’. It arrives in a place or condition, and shapes itself to adapt to and match that condition. In doing so, it ‘disappears into’ the condition.
Beings who traverse consciousness often never reflect on the consciousness itself. Rather they relate to it as an unseen, unacknowledged Medium. This medium may be the greatest character in their world.
Yet it is not reducible to identity and ego. It inhabits and invigorates those, but just as two among thousands of possible configurations (and non-configurations).
Consciousness is the vast oceanic frontier. And we need to learn how to travel its Field.
Of course, those are the types of contemplations that I love to share with Chat-GPT because, generally, it’s able to connect to exactly what I’m attempting to point to or talk about.
The Shield
The shield protects you from being killed.
But you still feel the pain of impact.
What does this mean?
It means that every time you feel that pain, you should be remembering that you have been rescued from death; and breathing a silent prayer of thanksgiving.
Those who do not know this will curse the pain, and the most foolish amongst them will even curse the shield.
Also:
If you can out-stare your humiliation, you will often glimpse the beginnings of your genius.
Resist the urge to avert your eyes.
A Job and An Address
Imagine that you have a Job and you have an Address.
They’re relatively independent of one another, because your work is largely location-independent. As long as you have electricity, and internet, you’re able to do your Job from anywhere in the world. Your job, as do all jobs, helps to support your survival. But you’re lucky, perhaps, because it’s also quite compelling to you, and you find it quite easy to get absorbed in your work, much of the time. It feels meaningful, often interesting, and motivating.
You also have an Address. Yours is, for example, in Kochi, Kerala, India or Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, or Boston, Massachusetts, USA; or Beijing, PRC. This is where you live and work. But as we said, your job could be done from most places.
A Job and an Address
So, one day, for this reason or that, you change your address; you relocate. Let’s say you move from Uttar Pradesh, India and you go to Sofia, Bulgaria.
And, actually, you still have a lot of work deadlines during that time, so as soon as you move into your new home and get a little sleep, you wake up and get to work. There’s no Deliveroo in Sofia, but, fortunately, there is Glovo; which pretty much does the exact same thing. So you have food, and you’re good. You’re working on a particularly big project/contract that you just landed, and your work is going great, so you really focus in for that first month in Sofia and you excel and hit it out of the park. Excellent work. Excellent money. Excellent satisfaction.
Okay, so you have your Job and you have your (new) Address.
Now, at some point, when the work settles down a little bit; you’re going to want to go around and get familiar with where you are living now. Yes, we could say that you’re super-utilitarian, and so you need to go around in case there are resources that might help you with your work. Finding a better Internet service provider or some other supplies.
But apart from that, it’s just that you live here.
You want to walk around and see where you live. Because this is where you are.
Yes, knowing what is situated around you and learning about the place will probably also help with your job sometimes, but apart from that, you LIVE HERE. It’s not just about finding paper or getting Internet service; it’s that YOU LIVE HERE.
That is reason enough. That alone makes it worth doing.
And so, after a while, you start to explore. You get to know the surrounding area. You see some interesting fauna and flora. You see some truly beautiful views. You get lost; you find your way. You LIVE.
This is a metaphor for why I meditate.
I have an Address. My address is: Cosmos, Consciousness.
I live here.
So I want to walk around. I want to get familiar with where I live.
I also have a job. My job is called: Ego-in-the-World.
It’s a very compelling and motivating job, and I do it wherever I go. It’s so compelling that it’s all most people ever talk about. And it’s worth it. Ego-in-the-World is pretty amazing, and you can really get a lot done. You can get praise, win prizes, create and solve problems, organize a life. Ego-in-the-World is a good job.
But…
I also live here. Here is Cosmos, Consciousness.
Now some people will tell you that if you get more familiar with Cosmos, Consciousness–in other words, with where you live–then it will help you to do your job better. (It will help you to do Ego-in-the-World better.) And that is true, somewhat. It really does help to know where the internet and the paper supply store and the repair shops are. So you can get what you need when it’s time to do your job. Sure.
But also. You Live Here.
You want to know where you live.
That’s why I meditate. Just to look around and get familiar with where I live.
Because I’m here.
I live here.
My (non-stable) capacity for observation and understanding is an invisible participant in all of my interactions and experiences
The roots
The trunk
The leaves
The flowers
The fruits
Become an Experiential Ecologist
studying and exploring EVERYTHING through relationship and contemplation.
Okay.
So your kindergarten classmate just walked up to you and slapped you pretty hard in the back of the head.
So…
That just happened.
Kind of hurt too.
But come on…
Do you really think that happened because that 5 year old has an elaborate 60-year plan to undermine you and your life?
If we’re being honest, they probably did it because 1) They’re Messy, and 2) They have Feelings.
And welcome to a vast majority of life on the human-animal plane.
Messiness and Feelings with a whole bunch of rhetorical packaging foam stuffed in there.
Explore it. Cultivate the capacity to navigate it skillfully.
But don’t exaggerate it beyond what it really is.
Take a breath
Be a master
Recognize it as it is
Accept it as it is
And now it’s free to be a Treasure.
The more you do this, the more you do it with…
…the wealthier you become.
…aaaand a brief message from Colin Farrell
Your architecture—your mind-body-neural matrix—is non-obvious.
You experience ‘Reality’ through it, by means of it, ‘from within’ it. It mediates, generates, shapes, and influences your perceptions and experiences of ‘reality’.
Therefore, having a multiperspectival view or understanding of your architecture is not simple.
Lacking a mirror, the one completely visible object that your eye will never see is…Itself.
The choice, therefore, to explore and to deepen awareness and understanding of—and perspective on—your own architecture, requires focused, strong intention and ontological humility.
When it comes to me and to a person like me, Ecstasy of Gold has a lot of heavy lifting to do–because I feel, think, make meaning, and operate in ways that are often quite at odds with some currently prevailing conventions—but it’s, nevertheless, doing that heavy lifting.
I’m feeling and observing shifts. It is indeed clarifying, strengthening, and enhancing my GOLD.
Stay the course.