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[that-whichisnot]

Don’t worry. It seemingly happens to all of us.

[that-whichisnot]

The creative INFP

When you’re creative, you try to be creative in as many ways as possible, to the point of turning creativity back onto itself. Using your vast powers, you imagine that you’re NOT creative, usually in comparison to others. You’re so creative that you actually believe this. This is why creative people tend to be miserable wretches, despite everyone around them telling them how brilliant they are. It doesn’t help that creative people also tend to be sensitive people. On the other hand, it doesn’t hurt, except if you ALLOW it. You wouldn’t BE creative if you weren’t so sensitive. You see things that others don’t see. You feel things that others don’t feel. You work this into your art, sometimes without even knowing you’re doing it. You can’t always MAKE people see what you see, however, and this is a huge frustration for you. You often feel as though you’re talking to a wall, or an empty room. This is why you feel most comfortable talking to a wall in an empty room. But there’s always this nagging doubt that you’re supposed to be making a connection with people — that ONE thing that you don’t seem to feel. You’re trying to create DEEP connections through your art, and all you get is “That’s nice, you’re very talented.” Well there’s light at the end of the tunnel. If you follow your creativity ALL THE WAY THROUGH, you’ll discover that deep connection. But it’s not the connection you think it is. And why would it be? You’re creative. You always discover things differently than everyone else. Instead of trying to connect with the multitudes, realize that you ARE the multitudes. You need only connect with YOURSELF — that ONE THING you don’t seem to allow. (You feel kinda numb, right? Been there.) You CREATE the world around you. You ARE the world around you. That’s how imaginative you are. A funny thing happened when I realized that I was the only person I needed to please. People started coming out of the woodwork and CONNECTING with me. They could sense the truth and light in what I was saying — in what I was ALLOWING myself to intuitively do. Perhaps you’re one of those people. So now the question you should ask is did you create me or did I create you? We don’t come into inspiration by accident. We present ourselves with answers in SO MANY WAYS. Maybe we get an idea from a movie. Maybe it’s just the light glinting off the curve of a face. Maybe we come across a ranting lunatic on social media that somehow speaks to us in our own voice. Did I put this here or did you put this here? YOU did. We’re the same being, you and I, pretending to be separate. That’s how creative we are. So thank you for helping me see this. Space Monkey 12/21

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Squeeze

Sometimes we like to squeeze our selves into the tiniest possible space in order to glimpse the magnitude of what we are. We like to imagine our selves as pained and powerless people.These self-imposed limitations, the more the better, channel us into experiencing what we may not have otherwise imagined. All experience is good, even that which the self abhors, for we are so much more than just this child locked within a closet in the dark. This closet that confines us, this space capsule of sorts, can bring us to places that only the imagination can. And so it does. Sometimes we like to squeeze our selves into the tiniest possible space in order to glimpse the magnitude of what we are. We are Space Monkey. 12/17 Visit the Space Monkey Archive at capeodd.com.

[acidphreak]

Transformation

….the relinquishing of the conviction that we could know what to do and that we are inadequate because we cannot

[radical-revolution]

NUISANCE TO OURSELF

In reality, nothing can save us from a state of chaos or confusion unless we have acknowledged it and actually experienced it. Otherwise, even though we may be in the midst of chaos, we don’t even notice it, although we are subject to it. On the path of meditation, the first real glimpse of our confusion and the general chaos is when we begin to feel uncomfortable. We feel that something is a nuisance. Something is bugging us constantly.

What is that? Eventually we discover that we are the nuisance. We begin to see ourselves being a nuisance to ourselves when we uncover all kinds of thought problems, emotional hang-ups, and physical problems in meditation. Before we work with anyone else, we have to deal with being a nuisance to ourselves. We have to pull ourselves together. We might get angry with ourselves, saying, “I could do better than this. What’s wrong with me? I seem to be getting worse. I’m going backward.” We might get angry with the whole world, including ourselves. Everything, the entire universe, becomes the expression of total insult. We have to relate to that experience rather than rejecting it. If you hope to be helpful to others, first you have to work with yourself.

~Trungpa Rinpoche, Mindfulness in Action

[tracetheradianceback]

Spock teaches emptiness.

[radical-revolution]

In the sutras it says, "What good is manure, if not to fertilize sugar cane crops?" Similarly, we can say, "What good are thoughts and emotions - in fact all of our experiences - if not to increase our realization?" What prevents us from making good use of them are the fears and reactions that come from our self-importance. Therefore, the Buddha taught us to let things be. Without feeling threatened or trying to control them, just let things arise naturally and let them be. When ego-mind becomes transparent through meditation, we have no reason to be afraid of it. This greatly reduces our suffering. We may actually develop a passion for seeing all aspects of our mind. This attitude is at the heart of the practice of self-reflection.

~Dzigar Kongtrul

[vajrakali]

“When training in wisdom we actively work to increase the speed, precision, consistency, and inclusiveness of our experience of all the quick little sensations that make up our experience, whatever and however they may be. Thus the essential formal insight meditation instructions are: find a place where the distractions are tolerable, pick a stable and sustainable posture, and for a defined period of time notice every single sensation that makes up your reality as best you can.”

- Daniel Ingram

[radical-revolution]

Chögyam Trungpa ~ GATEWAY TO SANITY

The fact that ego does not exist as a solid entity, that we are fundamentally alone, is frightening. So we churn out thoughts, memories, and emotions to obscure the fact. As long as we are always busy, the fact of egolessness cannot be recognized. In fact, speeding is the strategy we employ to hide all three aspects of reality. Instead of seeing the changing nature of things we impulsively jump from thing to thing. Instead of acknowledging the underlying dissatisfaction in our lives we cover it up by highlighting, recalling and anticipating pleasures and comforts or slights and sorrows. Deception, evasion, ignoring is the way of ego.

In order to begin to see life as it is we need some method of cutting through the speed and deception in our lives. Sitting meditation provides a way of allowing the mind to slow down, to untangle itself. We neither feed nor repress thoughts but clearly see them without getting caught by them. Usually techniques that cut the chain of thoughts are used as aids—attention to the breath is most common. Calming the frenzied thought process is often quite painful since we allow thoughts and feelings that are normally repressed to emerge. So the turbulence may seem to increase before it subsides.

But along with the boredom, the irritation, the embarrassment, the inanity, the ups and downs of the meditation process, a heightened clarity begins to develop. There is more sense of being present, of a calm, precise relationship to things. Then this expands into an awareness of the environment in which phenomena occur. Meditation becomes a pervasive aspect of our everyday lives. We become more open, aware and permissive to whatever arises. We begin to see the realities of impermanence, suffering, and egolessness. These realities are not viewed as the unfortunate, harsh nature of things which must be overcome by reason and effort. Our efforts to build eternity on top of death, to create pleasure out of pain, to solidify ourselves in the face of aloneness—all these are futile. It is only by fully opening to death, pain and aloneness that their terrifying and tragic quality is overcome. And to overcome the terror they evoke is the gateway to sanity.

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

[lighthearted-science]

“Your emotions are the key. When you feel an “idea” you don’t prefer (like fear, self doubt, sorrow, sadness, etc.) the first thing is not to ignore or suppress it, but to feel it fully. Own it. “Because you cannot change what you do not own.” So just recognize, acknowledge, and own it. Then ask yourself this question: “What would I have to believe is true about my relationship to this situation in order to feel this way; to react like this?” Your higher mind will help you find the beliefs that are generating that emotional experience. Next, as soon as you identify the belief, it is gone. “Because any belief, any definition that you consciously identify, that is out of alignment with your true self, when you identify it will automatically appear illogical and nonsensical. It won’t make sense. That’s how you know it’s out of alignment with your true self.” So as soon as you identify the belief that’s out of alignment, it will automatically appear illogical to hold on to it, and in that second you will no longer have it. Identification IS release!”

— Bashar

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“Happiness cannot be found through great effort and willpower, but is already present, in open relaxation and letting go.

Don’t strain yourself: there is nothing to do nor undo. Whatever momentarily arises in the body mind has no real importance at all, has little reality whatsoever. Why identify with, and become attached to it, passing judgement upon it and ourselves?

Far better to simply let the entire game happen on its own, springing up and falling back like waves – without changing or manipulating anything – and notice how everything vanishes and reappears, magically, again and again, time without end.

Only our searching for happiness prevents us from seeing it. It’s like a vivid rainbow which you pursue without ever catching, or a dog chasing its own tail. Although peace and happiness do not exist as an actual thing or place, it is always available and accompanies you every instant.

Don’t believe in the reality of good and bad experiences; they are like today’s ephemeral weather, like rainbows in the sky.

Wanting to grasp the ungraspable, you exhaust yourself in vain. As soon as you open and relax this tight fist of grasping, infinite space is there – open, inviting and comfortable.

Make use of this spaciousness, this freedom and natural ease. Don’t search any further. Don’t go into the entangled jungle looking for the great awakened elephant who is already resting quietly at home in front of your own hearth.

Nothing to do or undo. Nothing to force, nothing to want and nothing missing.

Emaho! Marvellous! Everything happens by itself.”

Lama Guendune Rinpoche

(Repost. Every time)

[letgoness]

Living free of the censor that judges and condemns is a poise worthy of patience and practice.

Robert Adams

[that-whichisnot]

When you’re invisible, you tend to see more. (Not that you need to see more.)

[bb-e3rie]

“Because of your belief in external things you think power into them by transferring the power that you are to the external thing. Realize you yourself are the power you have mistakenly given to outer conditions.”

- Neville Goddard

[mswyrr]

“When we are alone on a starlit night; when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children; when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet Bashō we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash–at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the “newness,” the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance. For the world and time are the dance of the Lord in emptiness. The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into strange finalities and complex purposes of our own, the more we involve ourselves in sadness, absurdity and despair. But it does not matter much, because no despair of ours can alter the reality of things; or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there. Indeed, we are in the midst of it, and it is in the midst of us, for it beats in our very blood, whether we want it to or not. Yet the fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the winds and join in the general dance.””

— Thomas Merton -  New Seeds of Contemplation    

[nurtureoneslife]

Everybody says, "Control yourself. Control the mind." People have been trying to do this for thousands of years.

Five thousand years ago, Arjuna asked Krishna a similar question. He said, "This mind is just like air. If you try and catch air in your hand, nothing happens. The fist just closes on empty space. How to control something that I can't even catch hold of?"

Krishna told him, "By abhyasa, which means spiritual practice, and by vairagya, which means detachment."

If you have no attachment to the objects that appear in your mind, then you have learned to control the mind in the natural way.

🕉 H. W. L. POONJA (PAPAJI) ❤

ETERNAL REST

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