Monthly Archives of: January 2025

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Forms, Mental Images, and Patterns…

January 30, 2025
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It is our preoccupation with forms, mental images, and patterns that keeps most of us in a very limited and run-of-the-mill domain. Most of us stick like glue to such parameters because — let’s face it — that is what we were educated and programmed to do. And there are plenty of self-appointed priests, gurus, instructors, and so-called spiritual expert bloggers who are all too willing to offer you more and more techniques, mental images, and patterns that — according to them — will benefit you if you stick to them.

To end all that, psychologically, is to frequently perish psychologically from the known. However, most people are terrified of the unknown and are too afraid and conditioned to actually fundamentally change. So most — including the so-called “experts” — continue clinging to the patterns and techniques (involving patterns) on how to get there… without ever really fundamentally getting anywhere (other than the way they’ve always been). And to look with (and “as”) separation and fragmentation from a thought-concocted psychological center is a delusional continuation of the primitive and known patterns.

This Life One Leaf … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2025

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Regarding Death

January 23, 2025
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We, just as we were taught, look at death with (and “as”) measurement and time, and so we do not understand it one bit.

All of us tend to look at death as we were instructed to. We see it through (and “as”) a screen of limitation, fragmentation, measurement, and fear. I say that it’s a distorted, lopsided way to perceive death. Our primitive society misconstrues a lot of important things. We don’t understand death because we don’t understand life. We are too busy existing in our illusory world involving acquisition, achievement, and success… (such that we never ponder deeply and wisely enough). Or we accept some antiquated fairy-tale nonsense handed down to us, originating from a very primitive past.

Am i going to hand you (on a silver platter) answers to what death is? No. It is something that one has to figure out for oneself. If one told the answers to that riddle to others, it could definitely be misused. Additionally, i would like to point out that most people assume that they are alive. They may, however, be assuming wrongly. It may be that real life does not consist of existing in (and “as”) dead, fragmentary symbols, one habitually occurring after another ad infinituum. Most of us see the world through (and “as”) thought-oriented symbols… which isn’t really perceiving at all. Living is not symbolic, imitative, second-hand, fragmentary, indifferent, and stale. Please transcend beyond mediocrity.

Beautiful … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2025

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Kind of a Koan, Here and There (Then and Now)…

January 16, 2025
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After that there, there is a here
and that there isn’t here
And this here isn’t there
But that there is still here
Although we don’t see it so

After that then, there is a now
and that then isn’t now
And this now isn’t then
But that then is still now
Although we don’t see it so

Then … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2025

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Recognition…

January 9, 2025
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(Note: I will continue to politely “like” certain fellow spiritual and philosophical blogs, even though one sees that what is written in them is usually rather erroneous and off-beam.)

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Recognition is an inherent extension of thought/thinking. One sees through (and “as”) the screen of the known. Recognizing things involves limited, symbolic patterns of fragmentation. This fragmentation is never whole (though it may claim to be whole). Most people see according to how they were taught to see. This “seeing” is an extension of the old ways and patterns. It is limited and fragmentary.

To perceive without merely relying on these old patterns of limitation involves holistic seeing. It exists beyond all the practiced patterns, techniques, religious methods, and political and societal structures. Few see this way. Most cling to the known and are frightened of the unknown. It is like loving the shadows and fearing the light.

Re-cognition … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2025

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Suffering

January 2, 2025
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There is physical suffering and there is psychological suffering. When physical suffering takes place, if it is not too intense, one may be able to live with it happily, despite it being somewhat annoying. I am 73, with both osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis… so i know how stiffness and pain can manifest. Too many of us, however, are conditioned to run from pain at all costs. We overemphasize escaping from pain and we rely too heavily on drugs and such. The Universe has a set volume/amount of pain (tied to the requisite nature of reality). All pain is not just personal; it is shared by all… it is part of all. So being in pain is noble in a big way (since one is paying a price for us all), but many separative people don’t see it that way. Then too, physical pain can be a warning signal, indicating that something needs to be done to help the body function better.

There is also psychological pain and suffering. There’s the pain of loneliness, the pain of fear, the pain of depression, the pain of boredom. Interestingly, a mindful entity of holistic, orderly wisdom usually does not have much in the way of psychological suffering. Such a wise being perceives that, if fear is taking place, such fear is not something separate from what one is. One is the actual fear. If loneliness occurs, one is not something separate from that loneliness; the perceiver is the perceived. Looking with (and “as”) a fabricated distance and separation at loneliness or fear just makes the mind accept a division and conflict that isn’t genuine. That conflict doesn’t help with regard to inner stability and wholeness. True integrity does not fall for illusory separations and needless conflict.

In understanding disorder and suffering, we — in a big way — metamorphize beyond it.

Timeless … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2025