Guest guest Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 Anders! This is one smokin' post! I had a major personal breakthrough recently regarding my chronophobic tendencies. I finally turned the corner so I no longer dread looking at the calendar to see what it was that I put off tooo long. It was only *after* I had turned the corner that I realized that just seeing a late calendar date had become a cause of dread. And it is so weirdly wonderful to be sitting here with the end of the month well upon me and just feeling relaxed about it all. Which is to say that what you say was very true for me. And your comments about " society " ... bring to mind a little piece I wrote once, rewrote a couple of times (I almost *never* rewrite something) and still am very unsatisfied with, but which keeps hanging around and hanging around (other things I write don't do that, I forget them not long after they are written)... Well, the piece I am talking about is called *Society is the Devil*. Right, Anders, down the line of what you are intoning in this message of yours. Maybe I will resuscitate that piece yet! Bill > Chronophobia means fear of time. If you look at your own mind you will > find that it is run by chronophobia. The society conditions us to have > chronophobia as our main inner drive. Therefore, we will live our > whole life with a blowtorch up are asses ALL THE TIME. " Time is > precious " Bollox! That's a big fat lie that society hammer into us as > a belief system from childhood, to adulthood and up to our very grave. > " I must not waste time " - that thought is a firmly IMPLANTED and > cemented idea in your mind. Look at it more closely and you will find > that this idea is not yours at all but an idea supplied by the > society. You THINK that it is your idea, but in reality it is the > society speaking through you. You believe time is precious. But > psychological time can only give you two basic emotions: waiting > and/or stress. You go on saying: " my precious, my precious... " and all > the while it's the blowtorch up your ass, put there by the society, > that is speaking through you. > > al. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 Thanks Bill, I put a bit fury into this post it seems. I too have had (and still have) a major problem dealing with the future. The future is a map, and that map can be altered using thought, but is that necessary? At the moment I am pondering over this question. When Samurais are good at sword fighting, they don't use any rehearsed map. They go by the flow. Trained knowledge may be used in the fighting, but they don't have to THINK about how to use that knowledge. Maybe it's possible to live one's whole life that way. al. Nisargadatta , " billrishel " <illusyn@g...> wrote: > > Anders! This is one smokin' post! > > I had a major personal breakthrough recently > regarding my chronophobic tendencies. I finally > turned the corner so I no longer dread looking > at the calendar to see what it was that I put > off tooo long. > > It was only *after* I had turned the corner that > I realized that just seeing a late calendar date > had become a cause of dread. And it is so weirdly > wonderful to be sitting here with the end of > the month well upon me and just feeling relaxed > about it all. > > Which is to say that what you say was very true > for me. > > And your comments about " society " ... bring to mind > a little piece I wrote once, rewrote a couple of > times (I almost *never* rewrite something) and > still am very unsatisfied with, but which keeps > hanging around and hanging around (other things > I write don't do that, I forget them not long > after they are written)... > > Well, the piece I am talking about is called > *Society is the Devil*. > > Right, Anders, down the line of what you are > intoning in this message of yours. > > Maybe I will resuscitate that piece yet! > > Bill > > > > > Chronophobia means fear of time. If you look at your own mind you will > > find that it is run by chronophobia. The society conditions us to have > > chronophobia as our main inner drive. Therefore, we will live our > > whole life with a blowtorch up are asses ALL THE TIME. " Time is > > precious " Bollox! That's a big fat lie that society hammer into us as > > a belief system from childhood, to adulthood and up to our very grave. > > " I must not waste time " - that thought is a firmly IMPLANTED and > > cemented idea in your mind. Look at it more closely and you will find > > that this idea is not yours at all but an idea supplied by the > > society. You THINK that it is your idea, but in reality it is the > > society speaking through you. You believe time is precious. But > > psychological time can only give you two basic emotions: waiting > > and/or stress. You go on saying: " my precious, my precious... " and all > > the while it's the blowtorch up your ass, put there by the society, > > that is speaking through you. > > > > al. > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 > I put a bit fury into this post it seems. I too have had (and still > have) a major problem dealing with the future. > > The future is a map, and that map can be altered using thought, but is > that necessary? At the moment I am pondering over this question. When > Samurais are good at sword fighting, they don't use any rehearsed map. > They go by the flow. Trained knowledge may be used in the fighting, > but they don't have to THINK about how to use that knowledge. Maybe > it's possible to live one's whole life that way. > > al. ~~~~~~ It *is* possible to live one's who life that way. It is called following the path of heart. Abiding in the heart one inherently knows all one needs to know. Resting in the heart there is no *need* to think, for one has already arrived. The mind, in its search for meaning, is really seeking its own source, which is the heart. What arises, arises from the heart, and in the end it is to the heart that it must return. That meaning is rooted in the heart can be seen in that what has no heart has no meaning. Consider also what we call " just being " . That too stems from the heart. The heart is, well, the *heart* of things! So resting in the heart, and allowing the mind to rise and fall as it will, without concern, such is the way of gentle peace and happiness. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 Nisargadatta , " billrishel " <illusyn@g...> wrote: > > > I put a bit fury into this post it seems. I too have had (and still > > have) a major problem dealing with the future. > > > > The future is a map, and that map can be altered using thought, but is > > that necessary? At the moment I am pondering over this question. When > > Samurais are good at sword fighting, they don't use any rehearsed map. > > They go by the flow. Trained knowledge may be used in the fighting, > > but they don't have to THINK about how to use that knowledge. Maybe > > it's possible to live one's whole life that way. > > > > al. > ~~~~~~ > > It *is* possible to live one's who life that way. > It is called following the path of heart. > > Abiding in the heart one inherently knows > all one needs to know. > > Resting in the heart there is no *need* to think, > for one has already arrived. > > The mind, in its search for meaning, is really > seeking its own source, which is the heart. > > What arises, arises from the heart, and in the end > it is to the heart that it must return. > > That meaning is rooted in the heart can be seen > in that what has no heart has no meaning. > > Consider also what we call " just being " . That too > stems from the heart. > > The heart is, well, the *heart* of things! > > So resting in the heart, and allowing the mind > to rise and fall as it will, without concern, > such is the way of gentle peace and happiness. > > > Bill > I suspect that there is some truth in that, and also that the heart is also in part the actual physical heart. al. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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