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| I feel it's time for me to consolidate my bloggins, and therefore am moving all my future posts will be on MySpace: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendID=93864904
so, if your looking for me, that's where to find me. Cheers Xanga.
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| You can't figure out the meaning of life. To figure is to think, and thought is not reality, thought is the ego trying to make sense of reality. What then should we be asking ourselves if "What is the meaning of life?" is the wrong question?
Looking around, our ego identifies with objects, this is that, those shoes are brown, In reality, saying something is something, is a label, and not really what it is. What is it then? It is. Don't worry, it sadly doesn't make sense to me yet, either, as the problem is that I'm still trying to understand by thought, or maybe it's not that I'm trying to understand by thought, but rather just the attempt to understand is wrong. Luckily I have the "I'm going to figure this out, ego." so someday... it'll be clear.. i just may not be able to express it audibly.
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| Alright, so for the entire day, I've read Eckhart Tolle's take on reality, as reality is not the thought we produce of reality but rather the awareness of that thought. So through investigation I asked a crowd today to think of an apple, an ordinary apple, once they conceptialized it, I then asked, how do you know you are thinking of an apple, I intended the answer to be, "I am the awareness that produces the thought, that I am thinking of an apple, not the thought its self." I was surprised to hear the answer to be, "I am the being that, both produces the thought and the awareness that I am thinking of an apple."
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It's safe to say that I am legally drunk right now, so better clarification will come in the morning, but my pre-emptive thoughts right now are that my understanding of reality through Eckhart Tolle's teaching is deeper than my life long thought on reality of being thought, but is still not the true reality.. so what is deeper than thought? Awareness, ok, so what is deeper than awareness? Being.. is my best answer.... if that is my best answer, are we so intrenched in some concept, that we have no answer to, "What is deeper than Being?"
CRAZY! I got nothing right now. . .
Edit: It's good to know I'm equally coherent while intoxicated as I am when I'm not. I read some more today, and realized that Eckhart was meaning Being, while describing it as Awareness, and that my ego mind, was just getting hung up on the terminology, the sign, pointing to the truth. Unfortunately I still don't have it quite figured out yet.
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| I just bought a book from the BX yesterday called "A New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle, here is an exerpt, I'm sure there will be more to come. If it doesn't make sense, I strongly suggest, picking it up, if your not all about paying for books, leave a comment, and I'll mail you it when I'm done. I can tell right now it's going to be good and I'm not even 50 pages into it (of 309).
a quick look at the pretext to define a context for the quote below is this: Eckhart, up to this point has been talking about how our identity or the identity we have of ourselves is connected to everything we define with the word "my."
"Blessed are the poor in spirit," Jesus said, "for theirs will be the kingdom of heaven." What does "poor in spirit" mean? No inner baggage, no identifications. Not with things, nor with any mental concepts that have a sense of self in them. And what is the "kingdom of heaven"? The simple but profound joy of Being that is there when you let go of identifications and so become "poor in spirit." - Eckhart Tolle
Ok, so the point he's making is, once you let go of all those objects and ideas that make up your egotistic identity, you are "poor in spirit" and will then experience "the kingdom of heaven."
Once again if that didn't make sense, but your intrigued, I recommend the book, if that doesn't appeal to you, a web blogger by the name of Steve Pavlina, talks extensively on similar subjects on his site www.stevepavlina.com also recommended.
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| Ok, so I stumbled upon this story, about a guy that started out with one red paper clip, traded it, upwards of 14 times, and one year later, found himself trading for a house. Pretty neat experiment with a nice pay off. I was sitting here thinking about it.. and realized that a similar and yet really cool experiment would be to do the same thing, but with jobs.. I'll trade you my "X" job for yours for "X" amount of time, or until someone offers me a trade-up. The details would be difficult to work out, but the whole concept would be quite an experience.
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