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Most of us are Drugged by Tradition and Imitation

November 5, 2026

Existing Beyond Words

October 29, 2026

Though one — as an organism — can often use words, one can sagaciously often exist beyond words. Most people, unfortunately, have become conditioned to mostly function in (and “as”) the realm of limited words. Words, being symbols, are usually sequential by nature. It takes time to say or think a word (or a series of words in a sentence). Most people think and chatter — mentally — endlessly (as words). Words depend upon time to exist. In a big way, words are time-bound (i.e., fixed in and “as” time). Interestingly, many people, here in WordPress and elsewhere, often congratulate each other on their use of words. Unfortunately, many (if not all) of these people dwell almost exclusively as words (in the psychological domain in which they exist). Since words are virtual, symbolic, and essentially fragmentary, the fields of so-called existence (i.e., consciousness) they support may be equally virtual, symbolic, and essentially fragmentary; interestingly, people are very good at complimenting each other for some sort of supposed intelligence (in this limited, virtual, rather sorry state of affairs).

Please examine the possibility of often existing beyond the framework of words. Please look into the possibility of being beyond what is virtual, symbolic, and time-bound. What is virtual, symbolic, and time-bound may not be what real and true living is. It may be a pseudo-life — a limited, pseudo-intelligence — that people call “life.” Many may be existing in (and “as”) a pseudo-life while feeding the fanciful furnace of seeming to be very intelligent and refined… whereas, all the while, they may be functioning as what is largely and fundamentally unalive. Is there a possibility that we have become so lost in the tools and measurement of thinking that we have taken the tools to be more than just tools? Have we allowed mere tools to become the essence of our consciousness? Looking at the world through (and “as”) tools may not be looking sagaciously whatsoever; it may be a virtual, symbolic distortion that is an adulteration away from true living and holistic, sweet spirituality.

Like in the ancient Parable of the Cave, we give each other prizes for who can name and count the superficial shadows within the cave the best… while failing to see the deeper (sunny) reality outside of the limited shadow-oriented realm. We need to turn around and reexamine all that we have been taught and programmed to adhere to. Words take time to exist as what one is (mentally); words are time. There is a timelessness (a vast order and intelligence) that is not merely virtual, fragmentary, symbolic, and limited (as words are).

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Deep Perception and Understanding

October 22, 2026

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To see deeply is to perceive beyond the field of the known. The known is always limited, and it is based on memory. Additionally, the word is not the thing. The word “flower” is not the flower. Most of us perceive things through (and “as”) a field of memory and recognition. We tend to pigeonhole things and see them through the lens of what we were taught or from what we had experienced in the past. Rarely, if ever, do we see things as if for the first time; rarely do we perceive everything holistically.

When we perpetually recognize things from patterns in our memory bank, we see from and with what is old and previously categorized. Memory is of the dead past; a mind that stays stuck in (and “as”) memories is remaining with what is dead and unalive. Additionally, most of us look with (and “as”) separation and fragmentation. Few fully realize that the “perceiver” is not truly separate from the perceived. We look with learned separation and division. To look at life holistically without a lot of fragmentation affects understanding, for understanding emanates from clear, unadulterated perception. Please do not just exist in a world of words and fragmented patterns, for doing so makes the mind robotic, indifferent, and out of touch with reality.

A mind that sees beyond fragmentation can be extremely intelligent in terms of cognitive processes. However, cognition for such a mind wisely exists in abeyance, such that cognition does not always dictate what is seen. Such a mind is then often beyond words, though it can use words accurately and skillfully when they are needed. That “being beyond words” is not a result of a practice to get a desired result; such practice can make the mind mechanical and rather robotic. Rather, it is an intelligent, effortless occurrence that is not groping for some desired goal. Being effortless, time is not a factor.

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Fear and the Unknown…

October 15, 2026

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Most people are afraid of the unknown. Many would rather stay in what they view as being known, safe, and comfortable. This blog often invites people to go beyond thought/thinking into the unknown. Of course, a lot of people would feel frightened or uncomfortable with what is presented here, and not care to delve into it. Additionally, this blog often suggests that a separate “thinker” is not truly something controlling thoughts from an internal distance; it is often suggested that the “thinker” is a projection of thinking… and actually another thought. Venturing into such notions, no doubt, frightens a lot of people. It makes them feel uneasy. It seems to radically go against the grain of what they were taught. What is written here may seem to go against the grain of their religious beliefs. These beliefs, largely being psychological hopes, then feel threatened and made less secure, which naturally (in many) results in fear and evasive behavior, fostering a disinclination to continue exploring in this blog.

Truth and legitimate spirituality are not games. You don’t get to pick what reality and truth really are. They are what they are. You can pick what you wish they were, but you can’t pick reality. (It’s childish to believe in the equivalent of fairy tales.) I’m almost 75 now. Many years ago, when i was in college, i read about how — in certain individuals, while they remained alive — their brains were surgically divided. The brains, walnut-like in appearance, were surgically separated. Following the surgery, each half did not realize what the other half was doing or thinking. When the bridge between the halves is cut—usually to stop severe, life-threatening epileptic seizures from spreading—each hemisphere continues to function, but it loses direct contact with what the other half is experiencing or deciding. Despite these experimental quirks, most patients live remarkably normal daily lives. Subcortical brain structures (deeper parts of the brain below the cortex) and alternative pathways still coordinate basic functions, and everyday environments allow both sides to receive similar sensory input. Well… reading this back then helped me to question my orthodox organized-religion background. Back then, i decided to endeavor to walk towards truth without relying on the authority of organizations. One would walk towards truth no matter what others promised or offered for belief. Truth was to be observed (however pleasant or unpleasant it appeared.) Fear was transcended. Later, one realized that you can’t walk towards truth… for there is no path (in time) that leads to the timeless.

A lot of what is written in my blog may seem radical and uncomfortable (at first). While reading it, a lot of fear can indeed manifest, often due to conditioning from our primitive culture. When fear occurs, one is not separate from that fear. However, one is not, thank goodness, exclusively what that actual fear is. Intelligence is that immense order and understanding that transcends fear, illusion, beliefs, and the fragmentation that — to itself, and in itself — is bereft of wholeness, love, and eternity. The unknown is where the infinte beauty and the magic are; the known is of fear, limitation, mediocrity, and sorrow. Though we may feel and seem insignificant, each moment of our lives is immensely important. Each moment offers infinite potential and profound understanding. We can remain darkly blind, limited, and fearful, or glowing and selfless with deep understanding.

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AI, Computers, Job Loss, (and You)

October 8, 2026

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In the future, people will be losing their jobs in large numbers to sophisticated computers, AI, and robots. As time goes by, it will be amazing to see the mushrooming numbers of job loses and the types of jobs that will be taken over by autonomous robotic systems. Society will have to adjust, and it will be a difficult time. Over time, however, it may actually be extremely beneficial, affording people time to delve inwardly (i.e., into meditation and mindfulness) rather than to be consumed so much by processes of “doing.”

As one has said many times before, there are already a lot of people in society who are — themselves — very robotic and conditioned (in rather mechanical, stale, cold-hearted ways). This needs to change. Instead of reacting like indifferent machines, humans need to transcend conditioning and perceive in holistic, dynamic, and truly spiritual ways. This would be something that each individual can be involved with… hopefully beyond the limiting clutches of organized systems, cold methods, mechanical practices, and dominating authorities. Additionally, those of us who are truly intelligent would not be prone to having computer chips and mechanical systems inserted into parts of our brains. Such intelligent people would remain dynamic, natural, whole, perceptive, and free (beyond the clutches of mechanical processing/calculating robotic chips and inserts).

It is going to be quite a different world in the future, but we can still thrive in it successfully if we are prudent and truly insightful. Please do not merely look robotically at things and creatures in life. Please ensure that compassion and true spirituality flower in your life (and for those around you who are not separate from yourself). Leave mediocrity, indifference, and barbarism to exist in (and “as”) the dead past where they belong.

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Ingrained Psychological Separative Distance

October 1, 2026

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Most of us look with (and “as”) separative distance. We look with (and “as”) fragmentation. Interestingly, looking in such a way is an extension from eons of conditioning. We continue to perceive in those “old,” routine, antiquated, and conditioned ways. It is largely why a lot of us get bored, depressed, and melancholy. It’s because looking in the same old ways for thousands of years has kept the dynamic, living vitality at bay, leaving us fragmented and repetitive in a stagnant kind of way. Continued violence, indifference, and conflict are there (in society) at the end of it.

So, we look with (and “as”) separation. Most of us see the living world as separate from ourselves. Even internally, thoughts are perceived as being separate from the central self (that supposedly creates them from a distance). However, it may be that the central self (i.e., thinker) is a product (i.e., an extension) of thought/thinking. What is supposedly looking at thought (with separation) is itself just another thought; so the separation is fabricated. When fragmentary thoughts occur, one is actually (fundamentally) what they are… without some magical distance. The distance is an age-old mental fabrication that we absorbed.

So, the “perceiver” is not separate from the perceived. When one looks at a frog, the image of the frog constitutes consciousness. This does not mean that one literally eats flies (thank goodness). However, there is an elimination of fragmentation when one realizes all this. It is fragmentation and illusory separation that dull the mind, strip it of its energy, making it prone to violence, indifference, competition, and dullness. One will not likely be visited by the sacred if the mind is a network of falsehoods, deception, and time-oriented separative illusions. Perceiving without separation does not take effort and time. It is separation and fragmentary thought that waste energy and take time.

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Experience is Static

September 21, 2026

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Experience is static. Even if an experience seems new and profoundly different, it still expresses the same separation and division involving the “experiencer” and the “experience.” However, as we’ve said before, it may be that the “experiencer” is the “experience,” not something separate from it. That separation is conditioning; it is the learned past repeating the same-old-thing (even when something supposedly new is happening).

Many people want to experience enlightenment, nirvana, or, for example, some wonderful vacation phenomena. Such desires are extensions of age-old patterns. Such patterns involve conditioning, and such patterns are static and full of illusory limitation. Denying “experience” in life is not the answer either. Few ever transcend beyond being stuck in this stagnant quagmire. Few minds, unfortunately, have the passion and intelligence to truly transcend mindless division, separation, and conflict. Enlightenment is beyond the limited realm of ordinary experience. It’s beyond what can be achieved through effort; it’s beyond what can be ‘wished for.’ It’s beyond limited senses and thoughts. (What was written here might seem far-fetched or impossible; it isn’t.) We need to drop being slaves to conflict, separation, indifference, and mediocrity.

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Supreme Intelligence

September 17, 2026

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Supreme intelligence may not merely involve knowing a lot of things or solving a lot of problems. Computers can do that (and they often do these things much better than humans). Supreme intelligence may exist when a mind transcends old, run-of-the-mill patterns and perspectives. Such intelligence, when it looks, sees beyond fragmentation, limitation, self-centeredness, and superficiality. Looking in such a way, therefore, often flowers as compassion, wisdom, and kindheartedness.

Insight occurs for such a mind. And such insight is not merely the product of any previous knowledge or of any previous mentally oriented accumulations. Interestingly, deep insight may positively alter the mind in very beneficial ways (that expand holistic perception and mental order). A mind blessed in such a way would be far from ordinary and mundane. Such a mind would transcend much of its conditioning; thus, it would be much more free and dynamic. It would not be stuck existing as a bunch of symbolic words and endless, second-hand, fabricated mental images. It would be far from the ordinary mind that sees with (and “as”) limitation and conflict. It would not merely be reacting; it would go beyond reacting into a realm beyond cause-and-effect (robotic) responses.

Society praises the man who knows a lot, who competes a lot, and who triumphs over others. However, such a man likely does not perceive holistically; such a man likely sees the “perceiver” and the “perceived” as two separate things. Society is largely blind to what constitutes a very deep and more profound intelligence. Profound intelligence may not be what one can merely accumulate over time. Practice and effort have little to do with it. It may largely be a timeless realm that transcends what results from groping and striving. Very few minds look without endless groping, fragmentation, fear, distortion, and conditioning.

**Mellow Yellow … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026**

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Without Morality, Intelligence has Elements of Destruction and Great Harm…

September 10, 2026

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An average mind that was conditioned to compete, achieve, surpass, and struggle for more is what reacts according to the miseducation that formulated it. Such a mind is programmed to support the self, the ego, the central (inner) so-called authority, the supposed inner entity that is supposedly separate from everybody else. The system that miseducated such a person is not of real morality, because it did not focus on going beyond inner psychological conflict, fragmentation, and separation. Miseducated humans do many harmful and destructive things in our beautiful world. They don’t live as the whole; they live as isolated, programmed, separate egos.

One might say that someone suggesting to go beyond the “ego” is someone who promotes something that is dangerous, negative, and probably harmful to the “self.” On the contrary, transcending the ego does not negate safety, order, and goodness. Doing so, actually, is the highest form of morality and intelligence. Transcending the illusory ego, in actuality, reflects great order, spirituality, and integrity. This order, spirituality, and morality — together as one — has an intrinsic, eternal, protective essence to it. So transcending the ego-oriented self is neither dangerous nor destructive; on the contrary, it involves deep, unending love and real order… genuine goodness. Genuine goodness cares for all (i.e., the whole) and not just for some potty-little ego. The miseducated mind, the ordinary mind, unfortunately, is steeped in illusion, self-centeredness, and psychological modes of conflict and fragmentation. Such fragmentation is not reflective of the deep and divine order that exists as love, integrity, and harmony. In a truly enlightened person, there is a love and harmony that is endless. It has no beginning and no end.

Unfortunately, many people think that they are moral, though they are not. It is easy, with a self immersed in fragmentation and inner disorder, to deceive oneself. Many are drugged with false beliefs, false assumptions, and primitive mental modalities. To exist beyond being drugged in such ways is arduous, but it is immeasurably beautiful, magnificent, magical, and divine.

**In the Pink … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026**

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Timelessness has no Center

September 3, 2026

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Timelessness has no center. It exists beyond limitation and the rigid boundaries that enable limitation to falsely exist. The illusory ego inevitably, according to natural law, forms limitations around itself; these limitations are like the confined area inside a closed circle; often, the illusory ego thinks that it resides (with control) in the center of that circle.

Since dynamic timelessness exists beyond static, illusory boundaries, it is beyond the limited symbols and patterns that try to define it (and that try to capture it and perceive it). It is ineffable, (and while realizing that “the word is not the thing”) it is universal, sacred, limitless, and is beyond conflict, fragmentation, separation, and hatred. Conflict, fragmentation, separation, and hatred all depend upon limitation, illusion, and ignorance. If you belong to a political party or society that hates a certain race or group of people, for example, you are embracing (and consisting of) the fragmentation, separation, and conflict that are bereft (due to illusion) of timelessness and universal intelligence and love.

**Resting … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026**

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Belonging (and fitting in)…

August 27, 2026

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For millennia, humans have belonged to large groups. It gives them a sense of security, a sense of belonging (and fitting in). However, doing so may not offer real security in the long run. People belong to their separative religions, seperative countries, separative political parties, etc. However, these groups, by their design, tend to create conflict and fragmentation in the world, rather than wholeness and true harmony. Instead of thinking and pondering for themselves, people tend to let so-called “leaders” tell them what to do and how to react. People often react like lemmings. Then the world gets more and more insane, like it is now.

One might say, “Belonging to my country and religion makes me feel good.” Feeling good has nothing to do with it. That “feeling good” may be the result of propaganda and clever programming. Or one might say, “My country will protect me.” Countries are manmade and limited, and they tend to contribute to friction and wars. Sticking to some manmade concoction run by a fanatical leader is anything but safe; sticking to divisive countries, political parties, and groups invites war and deterioration.

What i write here will not likely encourage someone else to fundamentally change. Most people stick to what they were programmed/conditioned to adhere to. But, fortunately, there is an intelligence that goes beyond “fitting in” and “belonging”; such intelligence transcends fear, mindless borders, separative ideologies, fanatical groups, and mediocrity.

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Clinging to Experience

August 20, 2026

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Experiencing things is often good and refreshing. However, too many of us habitually cling to experience. Experience manifests as the “experience” and the “experiencer.” That separation creates and invites conflict and limitation. Experiencing almost inevitably invites recognition. To recognize a particular experience, one has to have and use prior knowledge about the fundamental parameters and attributes of that experience. So, experience usually involves the past. Stored, old thought processes are involved in experience… even if the experience seems new.

We jump from one experience to another. Like the donkey chasing after the carrot dangling from a pole that is secured to the donkey, we run after experience. The “experiencer” is the experience. We need not, contrary to what we were taught, perpetually chase after experience. A sagacious mind often is not what endlessly pursues experience. It, like a dog that sees the futility of chasing its own tail, does not endlessly chase after “one experience after another.” Real, dynamic meditation, is not another calculated experience. When it occurs, without effort, it is not merely what gropes and reaches for more experience. (And to avoid experience is another way in which the mind can easily get lost and distorted.) Real poise and balance require a mind that is truly attentive, sane, dynamic, alive, and untethered. Most people — having been raised in (and educated by) a mediocre society — don’t want to delve into this or bother.

**Little bug in the Explosion … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026**

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Mental Boundaries

August 13, 2026

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Excerpt of a poem by E.E. Cummings:

when serpents bargain for the right to squirm
and the sun strikes to gain a living wage –
when thorns regard their roses with alarm
and rainbows are insured against old age

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There exists in (and “as”) the mind many psychological boundaries. These boundaries often constitute what the mind actually is. In the average mind, there exists what is taken to be a separation between one’s self and others. In the average mind, there exists what is taken to be a separation between the “I” (or “me”) and one’s thoughts. In the average mind, there exists what is taken to be a separation between “me” and “my fears.” In the average mind, there exists what is taken to be a separation between “me” and “my desires.” Additionally, most people think that they are separate from what they see.

However, a mind that intelligently goes beyond crass separation and conflict is not psychologically the same (as the typical mind). In such a mind, the notion of self as separate from “others” is not so pronounced. Such a mind wisely sees self and others as a whole, not as separate parts. Such a mind has real compassion for animals and human beings because it — being blessed — is not behind some learned wall of crass separation. Additionally, a truly prudent and perceptive mind sees that the “thinker” and the “thoughts” are not separate. One actually is the thoughts and the “thinker” is a projection manufactured by the thinking process. Similarly, an enlightened mind does not see fears as being separate things that it has. It sagaciously sees that when fear arises, it is not something separate from what the fear actually is. And when desire takes place, a truly perceptive mind realizes (and sees) that it is not something magically separate from the desire; it is the desire (or the desires). And also, often going beyond thought/thinking is prudent; this is because all thoughts are limited and symbolic, while inherently producing mental borders contributing to confinement.

So, many people look (internally and externally) through learned fragmentation, learned conflict, and limiting separation. This limiting separation is what projects into society as violence, indifference, and conflict. And people willingly go to war… war started by so-called leaders (who are, sadly enough, mentally riddled with insane fragmentation, antagonism, and distortion).

**Manmade Global Warming is Real… Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026**

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Love/Compassion

August 6, 2026

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A miseducated mind, a run-of-the-mill mind that was educated from a background of primitive conditioning, likely will not perceive with great order and clarity. Such a mind will likely be afraid to venture deeply into the unknown. Such a mind will likely not transcend beyond a limited ego (i.e., a limited, “learned” sense of self). Such a mind would prefer to remain in (and “as”) what it was programmed to consider as being safe and “known.” However, what is known is always very limited; limitation is not conducive to vast (boundless) love and compassion.

Without deep and great clarity, a mind cannot have profound, holistic love and compassion. A mind that has great fields of separation, fragmentation, conflict, and division, in (and “as”) itself, is incapable of loving in deep and immeasurable ways. The concept of a separative self is an obtrusion from the known. To look with (and “as”) distortion puts one in a false, illusory, separative distance that supports indifference, but not compassion. Unfortunately, a stale, run-of-the-mill, ordinary, miseducated, conditioned mind is not likely to love in a very deep and true sense. Mindlessly belonging to separative organizations and groups that directly or indirectly divide man from man is indicative of cognitive reactions that do not reflect deep intelligence and order. (This is the case no matter how much “better” and spiritual these organizations may seem.) Care and understanding emanate from (and “as”) order, not disorder. A highly conditioned mind is a mind of disorder. The profoundly sacred has little relationship with what is fragmentary, divisive, dead, and illusory.

**Nectar Time … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026**

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What it means to be “Conscious”

July 30, 2026

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What does it mean to be conscious? Lately, new scientific evidence suggests that even simple organisms without brains seem to display conscious movement that exhibits beneficial outcomes. But what of human consciousness? Is our consciousness, the consciousness of each one of us, essentially the same? Have we all come out of the same mold that society constructed for us to pop out of?

There may be deeper, higher levels of consciousness. A person who is satisfied with — and comfortable with — an ordinary mind may not be capable of existing as a deeper, more dynamic kind of consciousness. A mind full of conflict, fragmentation, stale traditional patterns, traditional beliefs, and conditioned habits would likely be deficient in what a deeper, more dynamic consciousness entails. A mind stuck in a rut of ordinary, endless thinking would be incapable of the insight and wisdom that a deeper consciousness effortlessly reflects.

Society shapes young people into automatons who do not question things deeply. Students are generally made to conform, endlessly react, and obey. Such conformity leads to stagnation and the erasure of uniqueness. Minds that accept and take on superficiality then become bereft of great insight and depth. It may be that a little consciousness is a superficial consciousness. We need to be revolutionary (not in a violent sense, but rather in a profound, harmonious, compassionate, and dynamic psychological sense). When we transcend inner conflict and disorder, the outer disorder (of society) naturally and beautifully dissipates.

**Green in the Green … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026**

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If you function like you were programmed to function…

July 23, 2026

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Most people are going through existence just as they were programmed to go through it. Their reactions are reactions that were previously made to happen. Their reactions occur due to coming from what was previously formulated, concocted, and structured. They absorbed what was poured into them during their prior so-called “education.” Real education does not instill “what to think” inside you. Real education, rather, encourages people to investigate and understand “how they think.” Real education invites going beyond the realm of mere thinking. Real education doesn’t mold you; it helps you to be flexible, to intelligently question things, and to be individually dynamic in ways that are “out of the run-of-the-mill box.” Unfortunately, most people do not receive a Real education. Most people receive an ordinary, run-of-the-mill, pseudo-education involving conflict, rigid shaping of the mind, competition, obeying of dominance, conformity, fitting in to a rigid pattern, fear, and acceptance of antiquated values and beliefs. Students leave such so-called educational fields not as dynamic, whole, enlightened human beings, but (rather) as what was molded and designed to, without question, fit into the cogs of the antiquated wheel. They weren’t taught to “perceive”; they were taught to label, categorize, and accept. Those who taught them were equally programmed, shaped, molded, and made to react in certain rigid, stagnant ways. Unfortunately, such people lead rather boring, stale, obtuse, and indifferent lives. They became used to being bored, to sitting there surrounded by “sameness,” to sitting there accepting dull routine and endless, stale repetition. And then they end up in slave-like careers full of dull routine, stale repetition, dark conformity, “sameness,” indifference, crude competition, and boring patterns.

It’s tragic, really. If they didn’t mold you, you might be a danger to the lies, pretenses, and hypocrisy; and that just would not do. But to be unalive among those who are equally unalive is not living. Reeducate yourself — it’s never too late — wake up, transform beyond fragmentation, feel for so-called others, transcend beyond rigid (absorbed) beliefs, reexamine all that you have been indoctrinated to accept, look with truly fresh eyes, and go beyond all the crap that was piled into you (as your foundation).

**Stereo Antennae … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026**

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We take too many things for granted.

July 16, 2026

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Too many of us take too many things for granted. Too many of us go through the day being unappreciative and indifferent. Many of us look at everything with jaded, run-of-the-mill eyes that stopped really looking years ago.
Too many of us think that we are alive but, in reality, are not all that alive at all.

If you are truly enlightened, you do not crave or wish for enlightenment at all. Then each and every second is a majestic miracle that is far beyond what words can describe. Words, by the way, are so virtual, manmade, artificial, second-hand, fragmentary, and (in a big way) superficial. If one sees the world through a secondhand, absorbed series of words and learned mental images, one is not really seeing at all. Please go beyond these words and dive into the depths of life. Life is so very precious and beautiful… unless one has become secondhand and robot-like. And here is a little secret that i could whisper to the ear: The true beauty of life has no ending. If you think that it does, you were deceived and miseducated.

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Living, dying, and love are not three separate things.

July 9, 2026

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When i was a child, i would be at wakes and funerals where a lot of people were crying, and — you could see the terror (or fear/ignorance) in their eyes — they had no clue about what death was. Thanks to a sloppy education where they were taught a lot of primitive, erroneous things, they were lost in what they experienced during a funeral. Interestingly, as one mentioned in prior posts, a lot of people assume that they are alive; they think that they are alive. However, because of years of indoctrination, miseducation, and run-of-the-mill, stale conditioning, they may not be fully alive.

It may be that a very alive mind often goes far beyond the superficiality of conditioned, secondhand, programmed thinking. That “being beyond” is a dying — a psychological dying — to the stale, virtual, secondhand process of conditioned thinking. That dying is real living, and then living and dying are not two separate things. That dying is a blessing, and because the thoughts that were transcended were fragmentary, divisive, and full of hollow symbolism, the mind (then) is beyond their indifferent, cadaverous, mechanical fabrication. All thoughts are fragmentary, virtual symbols, and to perceive deeply without the burden of dead, superficial, divisive, stale, fragmentary symbols is to love. Such love can only fully flower when artificial, fragmentary words are transcended. Fragmentation cannot love. Only a holistic (i.e., whole) mind is the intelligence that is existant as real love. A mind full of conflict and fragmentary symbols — constituted of stale words — cannot fully love.

So in that dying is true living… and that living (beyond fragmentation) is holistic, and it truly is love in the deepest sense. You can read this intellectually — not deeply — and trot off to continue to react as you always have… and be stuck in traditions and beliefs like you always have. That is what “mostpeople” will do. Thank goodness there exist minds beyond “mostpeople.”

**All Together Now … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026**

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The Immeasurable Sacred

July 2, 2026

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The immeasurable sacred did not create the universe. The universe — as it is — was never created. It always was.
Its energy cannot be created or destroyed. The immeasurable sacred does not tend to interfere with the natural laws and behaviors of the universe, for to do so would be altering the natural framework of things.

The universe operates sequentially. The immeasurable sacred is beyond sequence and cause/effect parameters. A mind, be it human (or of some other animal species), that is heavily conditioned, while deeply ingrained in cause/effect reactions, is trapped in limitation and fragmentary, sequential measurement and likely would not be visited by the immeasurable sacred.

There is no legitimate organized system, method, or path that leads to the sacred. All such systems and paths involve sequential, limited movements that are fragmentary, self-oriented, and based on time. One does not get to the timeless by employing time. In the present, there can exist a timeless meditation that has little or nothing to do with effort or time.

**Midnight Croaker … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026**

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Existing as the Known

June 25, 2026

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Most people are magnetized to gravitate to (and to dwell in, and “as”) the known. They, unfortunately, cling to an existence exclusively in that superficial dimension. That dimension is a very limited dimension, because one can only know (and accumulate) a very limited amount of things. Existing with (and “as”) the unknown is foreign to them (and, for many, they never even considered it). The known is always of the past, because it was accumulated in (and “as”) the past. Being of the past, the known always has a stale, secondhand element to it; it is never new, never totally fresh and living. Virtual, symbolic patterns, which constitute the known, are tokens and representations… not the actuality. It is good to use symbolic patterns often… but they are only temporary tools.

In so-called modern times, we were miseducated to dwell (and exist “as”) the known exclusively. Unfortunately, a mind that exclusively exists as the known is unbalanced and not whole. Society is a direct reflection of this unbalanced element, and insanity is rampant across the world. Interestingly, there is no procedure or method to step out of the known. All procedures and methods involve the known and are extensions of it. Procedures and methods involve time. The known is sequential (in its mechanical nature) and involves (and is) time. The unknown has the essence of nothingness to it (psychologically), and most people (unfortunately) are extremely afraid to be nothing psychologically. All want to be something, to attain something, to believe something, to get something, and to just continue to merely accumulate (sequentially). This exclusive sequential accumulation may be the very denial of true and timeless living.

**Fuzzy Was-e … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026**

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The Sacred

June 18, 2026

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We can, with our limited minds, speak and write about the ineffable sacred, but whatever we say or write is inevitably inadequate and fragmentary. That sacredness, that immensity, is beyond the cause/effect parameters of this universe. A visitation by it cannot occur to a mind that is heavily conditioned. A mind that is riddled with fears, beliefs, hatred, indifference, disorder, and antiquated patterns cannot be visited by it.

Being beyond cause/effect, it is beyond time. It is an ineffable timelessness that has no beginning and no end. The sacred is not a product of human thought/thinking; so this excludes temples, mosques, churches, cathedrals, beliefs, and man-made rituals. The mind must be free of authority, leaders, and indoctrinating ways for it to occur in consciousness. When the mind is empty of chattering images, conditioned conflict, fragmentation, and symbolic thoughts, then (perhaps) it may manifest.

**Hosta Recliner … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026**

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The Story of Lo Zu and “Living True to the Reality of ‘What is'”

June 11, 2026

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— Note: Any resemblances between Lo Zu’s utterances and Thomas Peace’s apparent philosophical stance may be purely coincidental. —

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The aged Lo Zu remained resting upon the large, steadfast boulder — his meandering walking-cane there by his side — and the inquisitive students who had been asking him questions continued on with their inquiry. One of the students asked, “Lo Zu, how should one deal with one’s desires and fears?” Lo Zu sat in silence a while, and said, “Desires and fears are not what are held by some internal, central mental manager; such a ‘manager’ or ‘controller’ is what you were erroneously taught. Rather, they are what you actually are (at the time of their occurrence). When fear takes place, one is that fear… not something separate that ‘has it’ or that sees it via some separative distance. What seems separate from the fear is a concoction of the thinking process (that had been learned from others). That concoction is false and is a waste of energy. So ‘fear’ is partly what you are when that fear takes place. Look at that fear without pretending that it isn’t there, without trying to subjugate it, or run away from it. Look at it as you would look at a precious jewel, for it can reveal understanding and wisdom if looked at without distortion or prejudice (i.e., saying that it is something ‘bad’). One can deny that the fear is actually there, which would be denying the reality of ‘what is.’ Distorting inward reality does not help true learning to take place. Operating erroneously from a fictitious center (which really isn’t there) certainly wastes energy and extends distortion.”

Then Lo Zu remained quiet for some time; a bit later, he resumed talking, “Similarly with desire; when desire takes place, one is not something separate from that desire. To internally deny that the desire exists is to deny the reality of ‘what is’ and is a foolish waste of energy. Examine that desire as it takes place; examine it not as something ‘separate’ that one has. Learn from it and move on. Great wisdom may exist when the mind transcends beyond mere fears and desires. That transcending has nothing to do with a mentally fabricated ‘controller.’ If greed occurs as what ‘you are,’ for instance, be that greed, learn from it, and move on; don’t be a hypocrite and pretend that it is not greed; be immensely honest and be true to ‘what is.’ That is real integrity. Supreme order is goodness; that goodness is not strangled by internal conflict, false denials, separative friction, and illusory ownership. Understanding the mind is an immense, wonderful adventure. It is the greatest adventure that can ever exist.”

**Green in the Columbine … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026**

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The Story of Lo Zu and “No One is Home”…

June 4, 2026

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— Ah, it’s been a long time since we did a Lo Zu story. Don’t you feel that we should passionately jump into one? —

— Note: Any resemblances between Lo Zu’s utterances and Thomas Peace’s philosophical stance may be purely coincidental. — 😉

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It was a quiet summer day; it was one of those breezeless days when the tree leaves were still and not doing their usual dancing. Lo Zu was sitting, as he often did in his old age, on a large, aged boulder; of course, his sinuous walking stick, his meandering cane, was resting there with him. He was sitting there for quite a long time, and often his mind was as still as the summer day. Occasionally, he would ponder on deep things, but often his mind (i.e., what others referred to as “his mind”) was of a great, immeasurable stillness.

As he looked around, a few youthful students came by. These were the intelligent, truly inquisitive students who would often visit to ask Lo Zu penetrating questions. As the students approached Lo Zu, they all sat on the ground near him. For a while, they all sat together in silence. Then, one of the students asked, “Please, Lo Zu, can you tell us about how one can be the master of one’s thoughts?” Lo Zu smiled and then quietly said, “No, I definitely cannot tell you anything about that. However, I can tell you about the falacious notion of a central ‘controller’ who is in charge of thoughts.” “Yes, please tell us,” the students replied. The students realized that Lo Zu emitted profound insights that were far different from what the mundane, local adults would spill out.

Lo Zu leaned back a tad, and then went on further explaining, “There is no ‘owner,’ ‘controller,’ or ‘master’ of one’s thoughts, simply because these ideas or notions are protrusions of erroneous thinking. The ‘controller’ is a projection, a fabrication, of thought/thinking. So there is no true internal, central agent who can legitimately claim the thoughts as being his or hers. In other words, in terms of psychological control of the house of thought/thinking, no one (actually) is home. However, do not despair, for there still exists the beauty and immense integrity of a healthy, orderly mind. Understanding and love have no central (selfish) center. That is the immense beauty of deep understanding and selflessness. That understanding and love radiates with (and “as”) eternity. Then, when the old folks and the orthodox neighbors think that they know you — as they mentally pin you to a wall like an old, stagnant picture in their minds — you can smile while realizing that great wisdom and living mystery cannot be known by those who cherish falsities to (and “in”) their very core. So this speaker can, thank goodness, say that he is keenly aware that, for him, ‘no one is home.'”

The students went on to ask Lo Zu other questions, which we won’t elaborate on now, but may elaborate on in the future, perhaps.

**Beautifully Selfless …. Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026**

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Right Now You are Moving and Not Moving

May 28, 2026

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“I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendos
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.”
― Wallace Stevens

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where)one of us(while walking)feels we can

freely move may be

where consciousness really isn’t going anywhere

(other than where it’s always been).

most of us feel that we can freely think.

however,when thinking takes place,

consciousness is where it’s always been,

in the same,exact area,in the same basic,reacting form.

for those of us who jump,

consciousness itself does not really rise and fall;

it remains where it always was,

in the exact,same spot(which,by

the way,isn’t really an actual spot).

while reading through this poem,

one may feel like one is progressing through it,

but it may be that the consciousness involved with

reading isn’t really going anywhere(other than

where it’s always been).

the river is moving,yet the river remains where

it always was.

you are asking where you are going to,

and i am asking where you

came from;ah,we ask the same question.

you can leave the place that you are currently

in and go into a different area,but your

consciousness remains where it always was.

most hamsters on their hamster wheels,

we can see,

often run vigorously with great passion,

but the hamsters and the wheels aren’t

moving(any-

Itchy Ear ... Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026

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Possessions Reinforce the Illusory Ego (i.e., False Center)

May 21, 2026

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People frequently reinforce the illusory (false) ego (i.e., supposed psychological center) by claiming possession. A person might say, “My ear feels itchy;” however, one is that ear, not something separate that “has” it. A person might say, “My eyes are tearing;” however, those eyes are partly what one is, and there is no separate internal center that “has” them. (The internal “central controller” is a fabrication of thought/thinking.) One might say, for instance, “My wedding ring needs cleaning;” however, the visual perception of that wedding ring constitutes consciousness (and, psychologically, the perceiver is the perceived). There is no actual psychological center that owns the ring. One might, for example, say, “My pain is continuing;” however, that pain is partly what one is, and we need not always habitually and robotically run away from pain. One might say, “My dog needs a bath;” however, we are all co-companions in this universe; one organism can never truly own another. Our language affects our perceptions, and a lot of it is designed to reinforce this narcissistic behavior.

Additionally, one might say, “I am going to do my 30-minute meditation soon.” However, real meditation is dynamic and organic, not something that can be prearranged; it is not something one can claim as being his or hers, and besides, practiced meditation is likely a form of foolish self-hypnosis that is robotic/mechanical. One might say, “I have a vivid memory of Ted’s graduation;” however, one actually is that memory, not something that “has” it.

Needless to say, this can go on and on ad infinitum.
I can say, “I hope you like my blog.” (Just kidding… mostly!) 😉

Soaring ... Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026

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Endless)is the Poem of What You Are

May 14, 2026

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—– “I swear I think now that everything without exception has an eternal soul!” — Whitman —–

Endless)is the poem of what you are
These are the words on the screen
They currently make up your consciousness,these words
And without these,you would not be

These are the movements from left to right
Without these movements,you would not be
And left to right is right where eyes are
And when you went left is again where you go right

These are the thoughts of what you are
And youarenotseparate from the birds in the sky
Though you do not personally soar in the lofty blue
And without these,you are nothing

These are the shapes of what is seen
As what was seen is not what is now
While now is not different from what is seen
And three stanzas from now aren’t gone

Naturally,as this poem comes to an end
You will come to an end
But,all in all,ends are beginnings
While some poems(are

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To separate the Thoughts from the Thinker

May 7, 2026

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Psychologically separating inner thoughts from a “central thinker” is a reflection of age-old ignorance and internal deception. People have been doing this for myriads of generations, and the effects of this inner conflict radiate out into the outer world (as chaos, disorder, and conflict that we see every day in the news). As was suggested in the previous posting, the “thinker” is a learned protrusion of the thoughts, nothing more. Without the thoughts, there would be no thinker. This thought/thinker division is a delusory misconception. It involves inner conflict and illusory separation. There is no separate “thinker” dominating and controlling thoughts from some psychological distance. The separate “thinker” is a concoction of the thinking process. There is no separate thinker; a dominating, central “thinker” is just a crude, divisive misconception. As thoughts arise, the mind is actually the thoughts, and all thoughts are reactions. To go beyond the falsehood that so many embrace can bring an order (i.e., a profound awareness) that is beyond friction, separation, and dominating conflict. In doing so, mindless selfishness dissipates. Such a “doing” involves a tremendous mutation in (and “as”) the total mind. Then there is less friction, less energy wastage, and no self-deception. (Then the mind may often joyfully and intelligently exist beyond the mundane reactions of thinking.) However, an apathetic mind of fear, indifference, habit, and limitation will, unfortunately, not be interested in this. It will continue to react as it always has, without ever realizing the immeasurable treasures that exist beyond mediocrity.

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The Thinker is a Protrusion of Thought/thinking

April 30, 2026

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A lot of people have never considered this, but the “thinker” is a protrusion, a concoction, of the thinking process, not the other way around. There is no center — no central “thinker” — controlling “thoughts” via dominance from a psychological distance. There is only a mind of order or disorder. When thinking is not in occurrence, there is no thinker. (Actually, in a very fundamental way, there never was a separate, dominating thinker in the first place; a “separate thinker” is just a primitive fabrication of thought/thinking that has no real validity, no real existence.) This is not something to get upset or frightened about, unless you want to live perpetually in a primitive, barbaric framework. Living without the ego can be — and is — a great joy; it can be a blessed life of great benedictions and blessings. The alternative is to live an ordinary, mediocre life of perpetual deception and inner deceit (as so many do), and that is hardly real living at all. You are thoughts as they occur. You are the thoughts (as reactions), not something central having them; when that is fully understood, then there is the possibility of existing beyond them (at times), which is wonderful and high-minded (rather than merely selfish). Profound awareness often transcends beyond thoughts and thinking; such awareness is great intelligence and compassion.

**In the Tree of Life … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026**

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Experience

April 23, 2026

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Experiencing is magical, involving great curiosity and wonderment. However, most people never consider what i’m about to say — and it may seem rather absurd, at first — but it may also be prudent to often be beyond regular experience. In regular experience as most know it, the “experiencer” is separate from the experience. However, such a notion is largely illusory; the experiencer is not separate from the experience. The experiencer is the experience. Please see it! And all regular experience is limited. Regular experience involves recognition (i.e., re-cognition), is fragmentary, accumulative, and time-bound.

If you purposefully practice being beyond experience, like, for instance, by sitting cross-legged, with the eyes closed… you are still (whether you admit it or not) in deception and illusory effort. Existing beyond regular, mundane experience takes no effort; one cannot do it by an act (i.e., reaction) of definite will. It can take place at any time of the day, unplanned/unrehearsed. It is by no means a form of “spacing out” or a lack of awareness. Ordinary experience — as most people do it — requires recognition (via the field of the known); the known is limited and time-bound. We were never taught about this, and (for most) it never entered our minds. We look through (and “as”) psychological screens that we had learned; they were molded into us. Multitudes of people go from one experience — involving mere recognition — to another, perpetually and habitually reacting. Real wisdom, on the other hand, may be far more dynamic than that.

**Fire Reds … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026**

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Deep Compassion

April 16, 2026

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Profound and deep compassion does not ask for payback. It’s not some kind of investment to get anything in return. It transcends barriers because those barriers are typically manmade and delusory. It radiates empathy due to immense understanding and deep sensitivity. Compassion is a grace that transcends division and illusory self-centeredness. It is a manifestation of deep intelligence that goes beyond mere thought/thinking and cold calculation. Blessed is the man or the woman who is a radiation of it.

**Radiating … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026**

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The Universe was never Created…

April 9, 2026

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The universe was never created. It always was and always will continue to be. (Fortunately, that ineffable sacredness — beyond all of our shenanigans — is also perennially existent.)

For example, upon the death of his lifelong friend, Michele Besso, in 1955, Albert Einstein wrote a famous condolence letter stating, “Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. For us believing physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” Einstein wrote this to Besso’s family in March of 1955, just a few weeks before his own death.

I’m not saying, but we may, or may not, live in a universe that somewhat reflects the Einsteinian-oriented Block Universe Theory. Regardless, whatever some people may foolishly posit, the “now” has an important/significant place in this universe and should not be dismissed and disparaged. So please ponder deeply, my friend, and live your life with order and compassion, as if each second is a miracle (with great, limitless value).

**Golden Lichen … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026**

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Thought/thinking is the Absence of Energy/Wholeness

April 2, 2026

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A mind that is constantly thinking functions in (and “as) a void, operating away from what energy and wholeness exist as. Thinking, being symbolic, fragmentary, and virtual, if overused, causes the individual to be secondhand and limited.

Deep insight generally doesn’t happen to a mind that exists in (and “as”) a rut of conditioning (including merely habitually using patterns of representation). Thinking usually involves clinging to representations and symbols, rather than dealing with actualities. A mind that often transcends its own endless chattering may be of real integrity and wholeness.

**The Better to See you With, My Dear … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026**

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Conditioning as Disorder

March 26, 2026

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The chaos that is manifest in the world (due to man) is resultant from the disorder that crass conditioning brings. This conditioning results in conflict, fear, greed, group hatred, fragmentation, indifference, and personal animosity. The root cause of conditioning is never merely the existence of basic things as they are; it inevitably develops from beliefs, prejudices, learned (second-hand) perspectives, and absorbed cultural conceptualizations. So it is the learned (absorbed) garbage from others that is the root of the problem.

Please look with fresh, uncontaminated eyes. Please look beyond what society has poured into you. Question wisely, perceive purely, and live beyond psychological adulteration. That may be real spirituality.

**Opening to Blue … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026**

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Understanding the Nature of Eternity

March 19, 2026

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The great irony is that the dissolution of the center of consciousness, the ending of the so-called central “controller” of consciousness, is frightening to the vast majority of people; to them, such psychological ending is to be shunned and avoided; yet, only by passionately doing so (i.e., being involved in such psychological ending) is eternity fully manifest in one. Only then is the nature of eternity fully understood and lived. So, this avoiding of psychological ending, via reactions of running away, involving what so many circumnavigate away from by clever ruses — by the very processes of the fear necessarily involved — closes the door to the miraculous beauty and understanding of the everlasting. It’s very ironic.

Fortunately, wisdom and true courage break away the barriers of fear and ignorance, allowing real beauty to flower. Then one lives beyond death.

**Purpley … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026**

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Miraculous

March 12, 2026

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It’s unfortunate that people of the world aren’t collectively getting together, being appreciative that it’s quite miraculous that we are here at all… having much compassion for each other and for the whole of life.

One sees others through eyes of (learned) distance, and this distance keeps one limited, apart from true communion, and in a fragmentation that is unreal and of ignorance. To perceive with deep intelligence requires depth of insight, true poise, and profound caring.

**Severum … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026**

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Understanding Death

March 5, 2026

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One can’t understand what death is unless one fully understands living. Living is not merely existing in (and “as”) conceptual symbols and images. We take words for reality and most of us are molded to accept representations as being suitable reality.

**Departing … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026**

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Psychological Castles

February 26, 2026

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In the past, people would build huge castles (out of fear) to help keep themselves safer in times of conflict. Nowadays, separative countries have their own lethal, engineered defensive mechanisms (which contribute to conflict). Psychologically, most people have built complex mental constructs that are similar to the castles of times past. Inwardly, we have all kinds of beliefs — that were accumulated by conformity and imitation — and we desperately hold onto these beliefs — these structures — because we were convinced that they would protect us. And we walk around like humanoid castles… with thick walls dividing ourselves (or oneself) from others. These very walls (i.e., psychological walls) are not safe. They are of fragmentation, and they breed conflict and dangerous isolationism.

Only limited minds exist in (and “as”) psychological castles. Such limited minds — by natural law — are never in communion with the unlimited (i.e., the sacred). A mind of conformity, a mind of imitation, a mind of isolation and fears, can “fit into society” just fine. But such “fitting in” is not life, is not living, is not deep intelligence.

**Suit of Armor … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026**

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Indifference and Psychological Space

February 19, 2026

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In order for indifference to take place in (and “as”) the human mind, a psychological space must exist. If you are indifferent to the suffering of people or animals — people are a type of animal, by the way — then there must be a limited psychological space in you, separating the perceiver from that which is perceived. A false, learned “center” (as a psychological self) must exist for this limited space to exist.

Innocence exists when limited space is not prevalent. Then compassion flowers and care blossoms. Then there is a perceiving that is not separative and divisive. Innocence transcends war and conflict. Deep intelligence involves great innocence.

**Reproducing Bodies … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026**

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Fear and Time

February 12, 2026

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Fear depends upon time (for its existence). Without psychological time, fear would not be. Fear necessitates time; you fear, for example, what may happen in the future. That possible “future” is projected time (i.e., concocted time).

Additionally, the space between a psychological center and fear is largely illusory. When fear takes place, one is that fear… not something looking at it from a psychological distance. So when fear occurs, there is really no perceiving center separate from it. Some fears are necessary and beneficial, like when avoiding and circumventing a growling, ferocious animal. However, many fears are nonsensical and silly, such as worrying that some folks might say that one is rather stupid. A mind of order is not fragmentary; it doesn’t separate itself from fear and run from it. It learns regarding it, for — as it occurs — it is what one is.

**No Stinger Here … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026**

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Mostly Existing in (and “as”) Ideas…

February 5, 2026

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Mostly existing in (and “as”) ideas from moment to moment may be a form of disorder. Ideas are often necessary, but remaining in (and “as”) the realm of ideas (and constantly thinking) may not be living whatsoever. Ideas are virtual, symbolic representations about things; symbolic representations, per se, are not living… they are secondhand, cold, and figurative. True order is a living, dynamic thing. It is not second-hand and composed of mere mental tokens.

Most of us look with the known; we look through (and “as”) a conceptual, secondhand screen of images, concepts, and symbolic labels. This looking may not be seeing much at all. It may be what is entrapped in a very limited realm. There is a real beauty in looking without all that one has been taught. Such seeing is not adulterated. It is pristine and beyond what is crudely limited and fragmented. Innocence is to look warmly without the cold contamination of conflict and limitation that society eagerly instills in so many.

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Beyond Society’s “Time”…

January 29, 2026

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We are all so entrapped in concepts of time that we have absorbed from our primitive society. Sure, you have to use time to make it to your doctor’s appointment appropriately (i.e., on time). But don’t foolishly let time cause you to, for instance, fear death.

Wisdom dwells in (or “as”) the present, but that present is not of time. Such dwelling is timeless, and it involves attention beyond the clutches of thought/thinking. Thinking, though often necessary, takes time; it is time-oriented; it is time. Sorrow stems from thought/thinking, and a timeless life exists beyond much sorrow. A mind that wisely psychologically dies to the clutches of thought/thinking may exist as a timelessness beyond sorrow. There is an immeasurable, spiritual timelessness that is wiser and deeper than, and untouched by, the limitations of the clock.

**Pinkly … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026**

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Motives for Eons…

January 22, 2026

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For eons — for millions of years — we looked in order to gain or acquire something. We looked primitively, through (and “as”) a screen of separation. For the most part, we did not look simply and holistically, beyond motives and desires. Desires often tend to make one limited; between a “you” and “what you want” exists a limited space (of deficiency). This limited deficiency involves a “perceiver” of limitation, and a limitation involving a space between what is and what is wanted.

Simple looking (without technique) may break free of the aforementioned limitation. Such “looking” need not involve separation, such as between the “perceiver” and the perceived. Observing without a motive and without separation may be a pristine awareness that transcends mere mechanical effort and striving. An isolated, limited ego cannot do it, unfortunately. Most people don’t care about this.

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Psychological Order and Sanity…

January 15, 2026

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When one reads the news or watches the news on television, one sees how terribly disorderly the human world is. This disorder is a reflection of each one’s inner disorder. Most people are not deeply orderly in the psychological sense. We are fragmented inwardly, and this inner fragmentation reflects as humanity’s outer separative governments, religions, and politics. This inner fragmentation, for instance, often consists of an image of a “controller” thinking that he (or she) is something separate from the controlled. It is taken for granted that one (image) of a controller is in charge and is making decisions (as a separate center). We tend to see and react from (and “as”) separation and conflict, and this separation and conflict reflect as disorderly reactions in society. Great order and great spirituality are not two separate things.

**Together as One … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026**

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Thoughts as Reactions

January 8, 2026

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The last time that i wrote a more lengthy post, one wrote about how thoughts are primarily reactions. And living mostly as reactions makes a person robotic and mechanical. Existing as endless reactions keeps one stuck in limited time, for time consists of a series of reactions (all immersed in sequential causality).

Certain people will — philosophically or supposedly spiritually — say that you should exist in the “now.” However, if that “now” is just a continuation from a remembered “then”, then it really isn’t hitting the mark; it is then probably just another limitation. The real “now” is not merely a point in recognized time, but a timeless dimension in which the conditioning of the past does not interfere. It’s not what can be obtained by practice, desire, or clever reactions. It is not what can be obtained by the thought of a “perceiver” that thinks it is separate from the perceived.

**Precious Gold … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026**

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Happy New Year!

January 1, 2026

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Hoping you have a happy and healthy New Year!… even though there is really nothing new about it! 😉

**Happy So-called New Year! … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2026**

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Happy Holidays 🎄❄️🎄

December 25, 2025

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Hoping that you have a blessed Christmas and/or Holiday Season… and a very healthy New Year!

**Winter Remainder … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2025**

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The Relationship between Thought and Action

December 18, 2025

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What is the relationship between thought and action? Actually, fundamentally, there may be none. In other words, thought may not have any relationship with true action. It may be that each and every thought is a reaction and, being in (and “of”) the realm of reaction, thought cannot create what is beyond reaction. It may be like asking a shadow to create light. Only the absence of the shadow may, perhaps, allow light to be. The shadow cannot create (or “make”) the light.

However, when thought/thinking is absent (and not endlessly functioning, such as with a truly meditative mind), then insight may occur, which involves deep understanding and real compassion. Thought/thinking, being of endless reaction in most people, is very mechanical and robotic. This explains a lot of the conflict, wars, miseducation, and insanity that go on in the world, caused by humans. Most people have been educated (i.e., programmed) to exist primarily as thought/thinking (i.e., as reactions).

**Beyond the Stigma … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2025**

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Desire as Limited Space

December 11, 2025

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Desire is limited space, isn’t it? There is a gap, a separation, between what actually exists and what you want. That gap is part of desire. And desire is what you actually are (as it occurs). Don’t create another mindless gap that separates you from the desire. The desire is you, not something magically separate from what you are. So, please don’t crudely say that you (as some separative center) “have a desire.” There is no legitimate center apart from what takes place.

The intelligent mind, without the illusory trappings of a false center, then has (and is) the energy to transcend limited space, such as unnecessary desire. Such energy may be deep and profound. But do not merely desire it. And some desires may be necessary… like the desire for food when hunger exists. Of course, we humans tend to have innumerable desires concerning things that are not necessary, and all kinds of chaos and problems emerge from such unnecessities. Society has conditioned us (and continues to condition us) to be riddled with (and “as”) innumerable desires (many of which are silly and unnecessary). Ah, those commercials!

We can be orderly, whole, sagacious, and deeply intelligent. Or we can be riddled with limited pockets of unnecessary greed and selfishness. We can be healthy or infected.

**So Green with Envy … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2025**

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Separation and the Two Hands

December 4, 2025

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Humans are constantly battling themselves in war after war, year after year. It is so barbaric and primitive. It is just like the left hand trying to hurt and harm the right hand, not realizing that the right hand is itself too. We perceive in conditioned ways that involve separation, limited space, and conflict. We were educated to perceive in such ways via having competition, fragmentation, and crude views of separation instilled within (and “as”) us. We do not perceive — not enough of us anyway — with deep intelligence, wholeness, compassion, and wisdom. And is the observer — as we were crudely taught and conditioned to accept — really so divided from and separate from the observed?

**Symmetrical … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2025**

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Causation

November 28, 2025

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Causation is the action of causing something. However, it is usually not a pure action, but rather is a reaction. Human beings, with their egos, tend to see themselves as the source of power that makes and causes things. We do not (nearly as much) see how past incidents shaped us to react in the ways we react. Causality is the relationship between causes and effects. Most of us have limited views of the effects that our reactions have.

Causation is time and the continuity of time. Our reactions, involving causation, come from innumerable effects, many of which we are unaware of. Causation can stem from desire, motive, fear, conditioning, and a lot of other things. Causation usually involves reacting to (and from) things and events. Can one look and perceive more holistically, without merely reacting in the same old ways? It may be prudent to often just observe without past influences and past conditioning altering (via time) what takes place. To stop and see the whole may often be better than just robotically reacting according to instilled conditioning. We were educated to react (like robots)… not to stop and be something deeper than mere reaction. Society, with its monetary mesmerization and desire to control and mold you, wants you to continue reacting (to their, for instance, commercials, political urgings, desires for power, and suggestions that the enemy is “over there.”)

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