Playing with Perspectives

[UnbornTao]

Powerful quote that resonates with me:

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"Pleasure does not provide purpose. Human beings want to collect and pursue
their thousands of pleasures, excitements and mental stimulations, all in
the unseen false assumption that if you collect enough pleasures, they will
somehow harden into purpose. That is, they believe that a hardened mass of
excitements, of things to look forward to, will somehow magically turn into
a reassuring purpose that the individual is heading in the right direction
toward good results. It can never happen.

The pleasures of this world are the pleasures of this world. You can build
a purpose, to be sure, in spending all your time making money and making
plans for your social advancement; but if you call them purpose, call them
a true destination, you will have deceived yourself without realizing it,
because you yourself, the individual himself has placed the word purposeful
life, meaningful life, worthwhile life on his accumulation of pleasures,
and he has lied to himself and he will suffer terribly.

The pleasures that are so freely offered and accepted from the financial
world and the social world and the romantic world, all those pleasures are
lures, temptations sent out to snare the weak and the foolish and the
gullible and the dishonest.

It is now time for you, as a spiritual student, to realize the mistake you
have made in thinking that you can create any kind of a good for yourself,
anything that's satisfying, including a sense of fulfillment, of
destination.

I've asked you to do something that is marvelously daring, that has the
first seed of true purpose in it. I've asked you to be more than
suspicious. I've asked you to ask the question, 'Can anything good come out
of my mind the way it operates now, the level, the low-level that my whole
psychic system operates on? Can anything good come out of that?' No!"

from a talk given 5/7/1989
Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 27, talk 679, track 25

Edited October 17, 2023 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

Create a new thought you've never had before, out of nothing.

That's thinking.

Edited November 4, 2023 by UnbornTao

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Edited December 7, 2024 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

Manipulation occurs as part of self-survival; it is producing an effect on an assessed condition.

Affecting equals manipulation.

Edited December 7, 2024 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

Reality is continuously giving you feedback on the consequences and appropriateness of your actions. Pay close attention and correct when necessary.

Contrary to what's commonly thought, being corrected doesn't make you wrong but the other way around! Notice that correction pushes you back to the road of appropriate action (which is determined by your purpose). The mistake people make is to keep insisting on doing things "their way" when presented with feedback that such approach isn't producing the intended results. You have to become increasingly aware of your thinking, feeling and acting. What is ineffective? What works? What could be done more powerfully, effortlessly? Which principles govern any given subject matter?

Edited December 7, 2024 by UnbornTao

[Sincerity]

5 hours ago, UnbornTao said:

Reality is continuously giving you feedback on the consequences of your actions. Pay close attention and correct when necessary.

Contrary to what's commonly thought, being corrected doesn't make you wrong but the other way around! Notice that correction pushes you back to the road of appropriate action. The mistake people make is insisting on their way of doing things when presented with feedback that "their way" isn't producing the intended results. You have to become increasingly aware of your thinking, feeling and acting. What is ineffective? What works? What could be done more powerfully? Which principles govern this or that subject matter?

Love that. 

You maintain a great journal.

[UnbornTao]

20 hours ago, Sincerity said:

Love that. 

You maintain a great journal.

thank you.

[UnbornTao]

The truth doesn't mean anything. It just is.

Edited November 8, 2023 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

Create possibilities, which are generated from nothing.

Edited December 7, 2024 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

Believing in what's considered to be true is but a belief, not an experience of the reality of something.

Edited November 13, 2023 by UnbornTao

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In order to live your own life, what's significant must be created by you, otherwise you'll be living an inherited life.

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Life is meaningless, and it is meaningless, that it is meaningless.

Edited November 11, 2023 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

Play a game worth playing that is bigger than you and that causes you to be authentic.

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Acting out of the mistaken belief that one must have a leadership position (or a position of authority or decision rights) in order to be a leader, dramatically reduces one’s ability to be a leader in any situation, no matter what the circumstances are - Werner Erhard.

[UnbornTao]

A form of seemingly inherent joy naturally comes to the fore of one's experience whenever you (yourself) get out of your way. Increasing awareness tends to open the door for bliss to be more readily available as an experience. In these moments, rather than struggling, you are freed to be.

Work on increasing your presence – many benefits will come out of this practice.

Edited April 8, 2024 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

Problem-solving and creating are completely different approaches.

What happens when all your problems are solved?

Your situation is the same as before since you didn't get to create what you wanted.

Shift your focus and attention to creating the results that you want:

What do you want to create? How can you start moving towards this direction right now? What action can you take that moves you forward?

Edited April 8, 2024 by UnbornTao

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It doesn't have to be true nor make sense for it to work.

Edited November 13, 2023 by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

Deep down, you're afraid of everyone. "Other" scares you. Others are dangerous to your self-survival. Since you assume to be an object living in an internal world, hence limited, anything outside of it has the potential to be threatening to that "inner one".

The author of this quote had a point:

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"Whenever there's another, fear arises." - The Upanishads.

In addition to that, buried down all this baggage, you also feel love for everyone, since others are recognized as not-separate from you!

Edited November 20, 2023 by UnbornTao

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[UnbornTao]

I keep moving towards the direction of more honesty. But some of my recent communications have been dismissive and cynical on occasion. My expression wasn't entirely honest.

Remember not to undermine the work due to personal challenges.

Edited March 25, 2024 by UnbornTao