People are so terribly afraid of being nothing. They want to be something… something that is central, dominant, and “in control.” However, trying to be central, dominant, and supposedly “in control” is the way of sorrow. Thinking fabricates the thinker. What is concocted by thinking is never truly ecstatic; it is secondhand. Psychological nothingness is not terrible. It contains everything. We were miseducated. All the answers, the best of joy, and boundless ecstasy exist in (and “as”) a living mind of nothingness and innocence. When thinking ends psychologically, something of a different, vast (and immeasurable) dimension may occur.
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I can’t say that I am one of those people … I just mosey along to the beat of my own drum, but I do “get” your point Tom. Meanwhile, “Sky King” looks like a mini helicopter on that golden and iridescent “helipad”. You have captured him/her in its glory!
Good grief, Linda, people (these days) have lost their intelligence. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is already freezing Vaxart’s vaccine-pill Covid research, and he is putting a stop on top world doctors determining what flu variants we should be preparing to fight in the future. I’m so glad that i pulled out of my investments in the Vaxart company’s stock. We will probably have pandemics soon enough.
I’d watch Sky King sometimes (as a kid) but was never overly impressed by it. Thanks about the dragonfly. 😊
So true, Tom! And what a beautiful pic!
Thank you, Harini! 😊
It’s liberating to discover that you are nothing. I have tried to capture my experience in this poem: https://thelongview2016.wordpress.com/2024/12/20/journey/
It’s a wonderful poem! 😉
Thanks, Tom!
I certainly wish my mind didn’t interfere with my life so much!
Beautiful Dragonfly Tom 🥰
Yes, Margaret, i understand. We are overdependant on habitual patterns of virtual thinking. We incessantly chatter with endless symbolic, shadowy patterns of cognition… most of which are unnecessary. 😉