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Awareness beyond the “me and mine”…

February 26, 2017

In real mindfulness, in profound awareness, there is an eternal simplicity (i.e., an uncomplicated movement) beyond excessive and needless mental ornamentation. Then there is not a separate watcher apart from the observed… perceiving from a so-called center. In profound awareness, there is no separate center that is perceiving thoughts or emotions that “it has.” One is the thought or thoughts (or emotions) as they occur; the idea that something separate “has” them is just another pattern of thought (that is primitive and fictional). That so-called center, invented by the other thoughts, is not only unnecessary… it is what leads to needless conflict, friction, and separation in (and “as”) the mind. This internal friction then extends out into society. Awareness of the illusory self need not take place if there is no projected, illusory self. In profound awareness, one cannot “know” that one is deeply aware, nor does one care to; profound awareness exists beyond mere measurement (and that is part of its beauty).

When the real beauty of awareness exists beyond all of the unnecessary complexities and friction, then needless patterns (of thinking) do not take place. Such an occurrence is not a lack of intelligence; on the contrary, it is supreme intelligence (that goes beyond repetitive, second-hand reactions). Without effort, awareness beyond all of the superfluous patterns goes beyond mere disorder, mundane experience, and recognition. A learned, isolated, fallacious center would be incapable of understanding the depth of what the aforementioned sentence means.

Winged (1) Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2017

Winged (2) Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2017

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Our Universe is Expanding…

February 24, 2017

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Our universe is expanding(the slick scientists say)

We’re headed in that direction,come what may

Elite physicists tell us all about energy and power

But to me,they’re like a bug on a little,swelling flower

They’re studying their “Big Bang” and its incipient phases

like a spider on a protuberant bud who inquisitively gazes

But the eternal whole can’t be understood by studying mere sections,

nor by looking from a bogus center that is a primitive projection

Studying the Universe (1) Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2017

Studying the Universe (2) Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2017

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Beyond words and psychological time…

February 19, 2017

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To wield witty words, to accumulate a lot mentally and in the material world, to have power, and to have security, is zilch if one is not of a holistic compassion beyond the so-called central self. Holistic compassion (beautifully) does not depend on any outside or inside authority for guidance. In holistic compassion, there is no direction, no blueprint as to the right way to go. Society spoon-feeds us everything. So many of us are used to being spoon-fed. We are so impressionable and easily influenced by (and “as”) reaction. Our propensity for looking with what others have spoon-fed to us runs deep. What may be intelligent is a quantum leap going beyond all that. That quantum leap may not be of time. Psychological time, as the associated past of what one has learned, and as obtrusions from the past as what the future might be, does have some place. However, the timeless, beyond that limited domain, is also of great significance.

In the timeless, there is no seeking, no authority, no goal (projected from, and “as,” the past), no direction, and there are not mere tokens and labels (as words) that keep one in fragmented, sequential symbolism. In the timeless, real compassion and holistic intelligence — beyond the limited, isolated, coldly indifferent, and false — manifest.

Frozen through (1) Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2017

Frozen through (2) Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2017

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This little world…

February 17, 2017

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This little world needs more jubilance and wholeness

and intense insight and sound compassion

This little round place doesn’t need fossil fuels

nor indifference that kisses the behind of out-dated political drivel

and doesn’t need complacency when separation and

fragmentation devour all inside and out

Frozen in Time (1) Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2017

Frozen in Time (2) Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2017

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It May Be Wise To Be Different

February 12, 2017

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True and profound insight is like a rare jewel that very few ever partake in within (and “as”) life. Profound insight is not what someone can merely — through effort — acquire or obtain. Insight is not like a materialistic possession; one cannot merely “have it”; one cannot merely decide to “get it.” It would be erroneous, for example, to say that “I have an insight.” Profound insight, besides not merely being what one can possess… is beyond the limitation of a fragmented, so-called central “I” or controller. The so-called central regulatory agent may think it has something… but what it has will not likely be profound insight. Real insight may come when the mind is intelligently empty (and not merely filled with the crass, fragmentary patterns of others).

Unfortunately, profound insight eludes most minds. The fact that most minds operate via fractional conflict, a fallacious (isolated) center, and operate via mostly mere details and function (with and “as”) separative patterns, has a lot to do with this. Correct education can help us to go beyond our limited ways. Before that can happen, educators themselves must change positively.

No doubt, most people who read this blog posting will merely reduce insight into an abstraction, to another idea. However, doing so is like never having the passion to really look at nature; it’s like going through life with an empty heart… never really feeling.

It may be wise to be different. (1) Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2017

It may be wise to be different. (2) Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2017

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When the Universe asks Itself an Immense Question…

February 10, 2017

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upon the universe

only one extensive thing was asked,

and the asking was without

an “I” doing the asking

when the universe asks

itself an immense question,

there is no need for a fallacious(little)”I”

(and there is no self in the vastness of eternity)

so,the next time you

have something infinitely special to ask,

negate the pottylittle psychological you

and the answer may be in the question

Chicory Bloom with Insect Visitors (1) Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2017

Chicory Bloom with Insect Visitors (2) Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2017

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Love…

February 5, 2017

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Profound love is like humility… one cannot know that one has it. One can suspect that it may be there, but considering (in depth) about oneself “having love” is a bit of a narcissistic action and, as such, negates love; additionally, love is not a possession (so is not what one can merely “have.”) Real love is not (whatsoever) what is measurable; love has an essence of immeasurability.

Unfortunately, the so-called love that many are involved with pertains to images that they have about others (and about other things). These images, however, are what composes their minds from patterns absorbed from the past (and held as the accumulated past). Love, involving absorbed and learned images, is usually very superficial and limited. Profound love is not, for example, a learned and absorbed image (called “I” or “me”) subsequently associating itself with another image called, for instance, (her). A relationship between two learned, fragmentary images is not much of a relationship at all. Love goes beyond the fabricated walls of mental images and psychological symbols. Love is not possession, attachment, nor identification. Profound love may exist when the ego (the image of self) is not. Merely identifying the image of self with other living things is not love. Profound love transcends fragmentation, is eternal, and is beyond the ordinary patterns in time (and of time). Timelessness is an immeasurability beyond self-fabrication.