Zigzag Idiot

4-22-2019 31 Influence Line3 45 Gathering Together The changing line councils about the harm in having idealized images of oneself or others which in turn create spells.

Remove Prescription glasses for better spiritual vision I'm nearsighted enough that I need glasses to watch tv across a room. I noticed a few years ago that leaving my glasses off when I really don't need them is good for my mindfulness. Having fuzzed out vision it's easier to be in feeling state more than a thinking state of Consciousness. I'm reminded of a practice called : Sightless Gaze - one attends to ones total visual field as one diffuse, panoramic field of light, taking in everything without identifying or labelling the impressions as things or actions, good or bad, pleasant or unpleasant. With glasses on and vision sharp, many more objects are competing for grabbing my attention. Going without glasses almost naturally brings about the Sightless Gaze practice. Especially when doing this new after it's been awaile The contrast from normal perception at first gives a great reference point (alarm clock) for remembering.to self observe and Self Remember also.

The new video made me realize my frame of reference about nonduality is dualistic!!

4-21-2019 50 The Ting Lines 2,3,4,5 and 6 8 Holding Together Themes cautioned about in the changing lines are forms of spiritual egotism and convoluted thinking. In its Cosmic meaning, the Ting is an image of the Cosmic Consciousness as a vessel containing the nourishment for all things that exist.

@KarlaThat's my first exposure to wikihow. Nice site! I'm reminded me of an alternative,,,,, becoming a Bozosatva http://www.halexandria.org/dward015.htm Voltaire once said that, “God is a comedian playing to an audience that is afraid to laugh.” In a similar vein (as opposed to an artery), the prolific and world renowned writer whose pen name is Anonymous is reputed to have said, “Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.” Evan Hodkins of the School of Alchemy <http://www.schoolofalchemy.com> has creating a fine art of what he refers to as “Self-Squandering Love-Mischief.” In his unique deconstruction of the English language, Hodkins writes: “According to tradition, the Buddha, scaling the wall of Nirvana, beheld the paradisal riches of infinite bliss, and decisively slipped over the barrier into total Enlightenment. He was gone! The Bodhisattva similarly encountered Nirvana, but conscientiously elected to return to Earth to assist in the illumination of all sentient beings. Hence, the image of the Bodhisattva, like Christ, elucidates the archetype of self-transcending servanthood. Those who undertake the Bodhisattva path attempt to ‘love without loving’ -- without attachment to the outcome of the service rendered. The urge to serve is not compromised by expectations of rewards or recognition. [See, as an additional example, true Philanthropy.] This style of compassion is less like Velcro, more like Teflon. It isn’t sticky and it doesn’t make a mess! Become a Bodhisattva and your Vampire days are over! “The trouble is, the Bodhisattva is vulnerable to episodes of terminal seriosity. Too much somber service and the heart goes sour, bodies get exhausted and the old lethargy returns with a compensatory vengeance. G. K. Chesterton said, ‘Life is entirely too important to be taken seriously.’ We’re all Bozos on the same bus -- colorful screwups orchestrating gleeful good for the sake of all Bozo-kind. So how exactly do we systematically unfrown the world? Add a pinch of tomfoolery and a dash of anonymous love-mischief to every splendid day. Be love-idiots and merry pranksters. It’s the traceless way. The formula is simple -- you watched it on TV when you were just a puppy -- wear a fashionable mask, ride into town on a white horse, work your transformative magic, accidentally drop a silver bullet here and there, then skidaddle, leaving everyone in town scratching their heads in wonderment. Wake up! Why park your carcass in the Land of Despair? We’re ambassadors of joviality and dis-arming tenderness. Let’s mirth-ify the planet one person at a time.” Now does that have the potential for fun, or what! With the same kind of abandon one can practice using the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, we can roam about creating mischief of the love variety, Close Encounters of the Love Kind. Even if you’re only doing it to office mates -- with the more terminally serious ones reaping the more outlandish benefits -- it’s all in the attitude. And if you don’t like where you’re at, change your latitude as well! And check out Evan’s stuff -- there is tons more on being a Bozo-Sattva than is dreamt of in this small webpage. Just be sure and come back to: http://www.halexandria.org/dward015.htm Caution!! Going onto the http://www.halexandria.org/home.htm causes a time warp in which hours can fly by,,,

Additional food for thought,,,, or thought for food,,,,

4-19-2019 5 Waiting Lines 3,4 and 6 10 Conducting Oneself ???? Lots of reading,,, Short reflection connected with this morning's reading: We don't realize the power of thoughts. More so with spoken words. They actually create spells in ones awareness and a fate in ones life situation. Recognizing and being responsible for ones own negativity, however subtle, is necessary for staying in or returning to centeredness, harmony, balance,,,,

@now is forever https://muslimmatters.org/2012/11/15/ten-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-kaaba/ It seems like Christian Contemplatives and Sufis have more in common with each other than they do with the fundamentalists of their religions.

"The Love Religion has no Doctrine" - Rumi This is one of my favorites.

Conscious suffering = a struggle between yes and no Conscious suffering = sacrificing unnecessary suffering (complaining, making accounts against others, Identifications) Conscious suffering results in growth of essence and Being.

4-18-2019 34 Using Power Lines 1,2 and 6 56 The Wanderer

The Pain body Negative Emotion Echart Tolle articulates it well and efficiently. This is the last half of an article by him. It's in all of our lives to some degree. Its the forgetting side of the pendulum. The pain-body is a semiautonomous energy-form that lives within most human beings, an entity made up of emotion. It has its own primitive intelligence, not unlike a cunning animal, and its intelligence is directed primarily at survival. Like all life-forms, it periodically needs to feed–to take in new energy–and the food it requires to replenish itself consists of energy that is compatible with its own, which is to say, energy that vibrates at a similar frequency. Any emotionally painful experience can be used as food by the pain-body. That’s why it thrives on negative thinking as well as drama in relationships. It may be shocking when you realize for the first time that there is something within you that periodically seeks emotional negativity, seeks unhappiness. you need even more awareness to see it in yourself than to recognize it in another person. Once the unhappiness has taken you over, not only do you not want an end to it, but you want to make others just as miserable as you are in order to feed on their negative reactions. In most people, the pain-body has a dormant and an active stage. When it is dormant, you easily forget that you carry a heavy dark cloud or a dormant volcano inside you, depending on the energy field of your particular pain-body. How long it remains dormant varies from person to person: A few weeks is the most common, but it can be a few days or months. In rare cases the pain-body can lie in hibernation for years before it gets triggered by some event. The pain-body awakens from its dormancy when it gets hungry, when it is time to replenish itself. Alternatively, it may get triggered by an event at any time. The pain-body that is ready to feed can use the most insignificant event as a trigger, something somebody says or does, or even a thought. If you live alone or there is nobody around at the time, the pain-body will feed on your thoughts. Suddenly, your thinking becomes deeply negative. You were most likely unaware that just prior to the influx of negative thinking a wave of emotion invaded your mind–as a dark and heavy mood, an anxiety or fiery anger. All thought is energy and the pain-body is now feeding on the energy of your thoughts. But it cannot feed on any thought. You don’t need to be particularly sensitive to notice that a positive thought has a totally different feeling-tone than a negative one. It is the same energy, but it vibrates at a different frequency. A happy, positive thought is indigestible to the pain-body. It can only feed on negative thoughts because only those thoughts are compatible with its own energy field. If there are other people around, preferably your partner or a close family member, the pain-body will attempt to provoke them–push their buttons, as the expression goes–so it can feed on the ensuing drama. Pain-bodies love intimate relationships and families because that is where they get most of their food. It is hard to resist another person’s pain-body that is determined to draw you into a reaction. Instinctively it knows your weakest, most vulnerable points. If it doesn’t succeed the first time, it will try again and again. It is raw emotion looking for more emotion. The other person’s pain-body wants to awaken yours so that both pain-bodies can mutually energize each other. Some people carry dense pain-bodies that are never completely dormant. They may be smiling and making polite conversation, but you do not need to be psychic to sense that seething ball of unhappy emotion in them just underneath the surface, waiting for the next event to react to, the next person to blame or confront, the next thing to be unhappy about. Their pain-bodies can never get enough, are always hungry. Sometimes people with such dense pain-bodies become activists fighting for a cause. The cause may indeed be worthy, and they are sometimes successful at first in getting things done; however, the negative energy that flows into what they say and do and their unconscious need for enemies and conflict tend to generate increasing opposition to their cause. Usually they also end up creating enemies within their own organization, because wherever they go, they find reasons for feeling bad, and so their pain-body continues to find exactly what it is looking for. There is a tendency in the news media in general, including television, to thrive on negative news. The popular tabloid press does not primarily sell news but negative emotion – food for the pain-body. The worse things get, the more excited the presenters become, and often the negative excitement is generated by the media itself. Pain-bodies just love it. From: https://mauihawaiitheworld.wordpress.com/2016/06/12/eckhart-tolle-the-pain-body-addiction-to-unhappiness/ Expressing negative emotions puts Leins and mortgages on one's awareness.

4-17-2019 42 Increasing Line 5 27 Nourishing A small bit from hexagram 42 line 5: True kindness is expressed in gratitude that comes from the heart as wonderment and enjoyment of the gifts of the Cosmos. It is not something a person can cultivate, because it is a spontaneous response to the constant stream of gifts and help that comes from the Cosmos.

I rarely get tired of watching and learning about stuff like this. These shorter clips are especially good for posting here because it's more watchable for everyone with limited time for exploring something new. 1200 x 2000 = 2,400,000 lbs. WOW! That's about the hauling capacity of 48 Semi trucks combined. It would be a huge undertaking with today's technology/capacity to move this thing in one piece.

@now is forever yeah, cacado at 0:46 made me laugh. ?

4-16-2019 11 Harmony/Peace/Prosperity Lines 1 and 6 18 Recognizing and Correcting the Causes of Decay Councils me to not mix together unrelated things and to drop being defensive for no reason.

I understand. Hope it's a productive trip. Be safe.

@zambize If you feel like it, it would be interesting if you logged into the forum about peak time and pick a subject to share your views on, off the cuff. Hopefully it would coincide with a time when I was here also.

I would like to see Emerald and Leo join forces. I think she would be great as a full time integration facilitator- moderator in the forum and her fixed presence would bring in more of the feminine to help balance things. From what I've seen their perspectives seem to be harmonious and she is very good at articulating ideas and interacting with others. But I know nothing of the business/money side of the equation.

You must learn control. I was just refering to myself. ?

@now is forever Butter as well.

@now is forever Time to bring out the Yoda teflon defense.

Once I heard the worst kind of not knowing is thinking that one already knows. I find myself there quite often but try to allow for some gaps in my know-it-all bullshit so a prybar can be gotten in there. Yeah, a little bit last night when I dug into his collection. I'm even-Steven this morning though,,, got other fish to fry. Maybe I'll put a little lemon juice on those,,,

@now is forever The YouTube below is the one I watched yesterday. He seems like a fairly reasonable person in it. Once I tap into his collection of podcasts though, I discover the guy seems to truly have an ax to grind. Says he doesn't want to debate any of it. He says he knows what he knows and that's the end of it. I step away from trying to resolve any disparities. Not just step away but run away. Like from a disturbed red wasp nest,,,

I may have spoke too soon. There are more disparities than I thought. This guy has a ton of videos like this. i may step back away.