#unconditioning

[morethansalad]

I don't know if any of my followers here are into Human Design (it's a bit like astrology, but a bit more practical in its application).

A lot of people try to eat intuitively, or find a way of eating that suits them. But that's difficult to do when your mind is clouded with so much conflict over what is best. Diet culture has poked its head into many healthy eating spaces time and time again. And every body is different, with different needs. So, you have to let go of all the crap to really start tuning in with your body and nourish it properly.

In Human Design, there is an aspect called digestion (or determination). It dictates how you most efficiently digest/intake information. It's not just limited to food (food is information for your cells). The digestion aspect challenges you to step out of how you may have thought you ought to eat (or learn) (or live in general).

I have some guides on reading & interpreting your Human Design chart over on my other blog. The Primary Health System: HD Variables post talks particularly about finding your digestion/determination aspect. Or, if the Human Design system is not your thing, I have a SAD Diet Transformation series (to help you get out of patterns of eating that don't bring you joy).

[witchbeezy]

One of my many grievances with the "spiritual" community

Lately my eyes have been opening to a lot of bullshit in the spiritual community. Don’t get me wrong I was aware because I use discernernment that there was some bad apples amongst the good. But lately my eyes have been opening to many of the ways I was put under a spell and “sleep” to my new conditioning.

I don’t like to be referred as “woke” but I feel people who do claim to be “woke” or spiritually awakened forget that they can be re-conditioned to their new beliefs. Our entire lives consist of cycles of unlearning and relearning conditioning and un-conditioning. Where we fuck ourselves up is when our new identity/ego isn’t moldable anymore. When we become stagnant in our new learning and conditioning. When we take our new ingrained beliefs as truth or law when the only truth is that there is no one truth or law.

How my eyes have been opening lately is how I’ve been looking up to some of these spiritual people and desiring what they present as their lifestyles. This is embarrassing to admit, but I’ve done this to the point that it’s made it difficult to be with where I presently am to the point where it is uncomfortable and almost unbearable. For example, I used to look up to those who just could just quit their jobs and go move off-grid. Because what they show is that life is so much easier. The truth is that nothing is "easy", and these people aren’t showing their struggle, they’re not showing they probably already had savings or a trust fund, and they’re not showing that they’re dependent on the people around them and that could include their followers who they exploit to live that lifestyle. Another way my eyes have opened is by some of those whose ideologies I used to listen to and just listening to them now, all I pick up on is how "asleep" they actually are.

I don’t think it’s possible to show raw, organic truth on social media, but what I’ve learned is that in order to be spiritual and live a spiritual life I have to live this life my spirit chose for me. I also need to figure out what’s true for me. Walking a spiritual path also means choosing what nurtures my spirit and that’s going to look different compared to someone else’s.

[littlewiseeyes]

I no longer live any way that people feel I should. That wasn’t ME living MY LIFE.

[spiritualgateway]

Carrying vitality and consciousness, Embracing them as one, Can you keep them from parting? Concentrating energy, Making it supple, Can you be like an infant? Purifying hidden perception, Can you make it flawless? Loving the people, Governing the nation, Can you be uncontrived?

Tao te ching                      

[spiritualgateway]

A thing that has no symbol

We want to find out first if there is something immeasurable (beyond all reach of thought, above all measurement) a thing that cannot possibly be touched by words, that has no symbol. Is it possible, first of all -not mystically, not romantically or emotionally, but actually- to discoverer, or to come upon this extraordinary state? The ancients and some who throughout the world have perhaps come upon it unknowingly, have said 'there is something'. Serious-minded men for millions of years have attempted to find that. Those who are casual, flippant, have their own reward, their own way of life, but there is always a small minority who are really earnest, who come upon this endless, measureless thing. To understand it, one must obviously be free of all dogma, of all belief, of all the traditional impediments which condition the mind, which are merely inventions of thought. We are human beings, suffering, lonely, confused, in great sorrow, whether we call ourselves Communists or Socialists or anything else -we are human beings. But apparently the important thing for us is the label, French, German or any other. It is important to be free from all this because you need freedom, not merely verbally but actually. It is only in freedom that you can discover what is the real, not through beliefs and dogmas.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti - Talks in Europe 1968, Social Responsibility

[english-tibetan-dictionary]

unconditioning

zag pa med pa'i sdom pa - unconditioning vows [IW]