Monthly Archives of: November 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.”)

This is not a commercial.

Blending In … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2025

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Motives

November 20, 2025
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We all do innumerable things due to motives. We all do things for reasons, to get something out of it. Our calculating minds were programmed to react primarily with self-centered motives in mind.

What place has true meditation (and mindfulness) in all this? I have been, in the distant past, to so-called “meditation gatherings,” where i have observed people sitting cross-legged, smugly acting like they are achieving something immensely profound. But is that really meditation? It may be that true meditation is not what a person can arrange to happen. True meditation might not merely be just another effect brought about by a scheming cause. You can work out (via motives) how to acquire money, knick-knacks, drugs, and self-satisfaction from asking favors from a learned (imagined) deity, but can you similarly plan or plot how to truly meditate or partake in real, spontaneous insight? It might be that true meditation and insight may occur when one is not plotting how to meditate and not plotting to have insight. It might be that a mind that is not wrapped up in “plotting” may be touched by what cannot be reached by groping in (and “as”) time. And far too often, a person tends to do something for himself (or herself) and not for others. It all can be very robotic and infantile while one lives foolishly. The self can think that the “special spotlight” is on it, with its beliefs and spiritual conclusions. Beliefs and conclusions are what someone is (which often results from programmed motives).

There is often a space between the self and “others,” and there is often a space between what actually exists and what one wants for oneself. Such space is extremely limited. It is of mechanical, animalistic foolishness. But most of us take that bait and run with it. Limitation is its own prison… a prison that is self-concocted.

By the River … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2025

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We are Spellbound by Patterns

November 13, 2025
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[Note on my recovery:
I was in the hospital, with pancreatitis, for 17 days. Hence, my absence from posting. I had two surgeries. During the first week in the hospital, the pain was so excruciating that i could not sleep for a full week. I am mostly pain-free now and am doing much better. As i am still in recovery, i am not sure if i will post each and every week, but i might.]

We, as humans, are spellbound and obsessed with patterns. We, via thought/thinking, constantly go from one series of patterns to the next, mostly all day long. Even at night, we dream sequentially in (and “as”) patterns. These patterns are sequential and symbolic. Really, they are virtual re-cogitations that are projections from the brain. We even recognize things via patterns… looking through (and “as”) a screen of fragmentations.

We can often go beyond this limited framework by perceiving and existing holistically. Please do not be fooled by organizations or individuals that give you methods and practices for going beyond the fragmented patterns. Such methods and practices, in themselves, take time (are sequential), and do not truly lead to what is beyond the limitation; they are an extension of the limitation. Time does not generally lead to the timeless. However, one can go beyond the quagmire without taking time (and without robotically practicing things to do it). Holistic perception involves seeing beyond separation; it is of compassion and deep awareness.

Sweet Nature … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2025