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Be more amoeba?
An ape remembers a tool they need to retrieve an inaccessible reward and heads off in search of it.
A cave man sketches a hunt scene on the stone wall, allowing for the transportation of his learning to another, long after the hunt itself is over.
A scientist designs a rocket that will reach a planet no one has never visited.
Even the amoeba, a single-celled organism, stores memory in protein structures.
The more evolved and complex the organism, the greater the ability to move conceptually, intelle…
A cave man sketches a hunt scene on the stone wall, allowing for the transportation of his learning to another, long after the hunt itself is over.
A scientist designs a rocket that will reach a planet no one has never visited.
Even the amoeba, a single-celled organism, stores memory in protein structures.
The more evolved and complex the organism, the greater the ability to move conceptually, intelle…
You are unique ...
No one else can say something in the way that you say it.
No one else has your mannerisms, your stance, your accent, your vocabulary, your way of being present.
No one else looks like you. No one else has your way of looking at people.
No one else can move or be still, make sound or be silent, create or do nothing in the way that you can.
No one else can listen like you.
No one can write like you, sing like you, dance like you, paint like you, cook like you.
No one else has your insight or your intell…
No one else has your mannerisms, your stance, your accent, your vocabulary, your way of being present.
No one else looks like you. No one else has your way of looking at people.
No one else can move or be still, make sound or be silent, create or do nothing in the way that you can.
No one else can listen like you.
No one can write like you, sing like you, dance like you, paint like you, cook like you.
No one else has your insight or your intell…
The eternal confusion of the identified mind…
In October and November, we are looking at expression and authenticity in a course called VOICE.
It is designed to get to grips with all aspects of communication that don’t sit well with us.
Why do we lie, pretend, hold ourselves back, stay silent, talk too much, get offended, hide our work, procrastinate, avoid criticism or risk…?
In other words, what obstructs our truth?
What limits the expansion of our work, presence, capacity in the world?
What creates so much stress or suffering that withdrawal,…
It is designed to get to grips with all aspects of communication that don’t sit well with us.
Why do we lie, pretend, hold ourselves back, stay silent, talk too much, get offended, hide our work, procrastinate, avoid criticism or risk…?
In other words, what obstructs our truth?
What limits the expansion of our work, presence, capacity in the world?
What creates so much stress or suffering that withdrawal,…
Everything changes as the mind settles into reality.
Everything changes as the mind settles into reality.
At the same time, nothing changes.
Of course - you wouldn’t expect this to be any other way by now surely?
Let’s look at them both.
On the one hand, of course it does. Everything changes. The whole programme running the experience, the behaviour is different. The system on which the software is running is changing from a belief in separation to the realisation of completeness, from fighting delusion to simply being.
But on the other hand, …
At the same time, nothing changes.
Of course - you wouldn’t expect this to be any other way by now surely?
Let’s look at them both.
On the one hand, of course it does. Everything changes. The whole programme running the experience, the behaviour is different. The system on which the software is running is changing from a belief in separation to the realisation of completeness, from fighting delusion to simply being.
But on the other hand, …
Ten Ways
The human mind is a miraculous super power capable of extraordinary feats of imagination and creation.
Awesome. What’s not to love about that…?
Well, these powerful mental constructs, in the form of memories, fears, projections, anxieties, shame, insecurities and needs, can also disrupt and obscure the peace and pure potential of this present moment.
And all of them revolve around, are held and maintained, like planets around a sun, by this idea of self. The concept of who we are is like a spider a…
Immersion
[extract from SANE, getting real with reality]
Who we are is not limited to this body and mind. In fact, the body and mind is an experience of perception, in the infinite field of awareness that we really are. With this understanding, the idea of an objective self becomes less and less believable. As we realise we are the space in which all appears, separation between self and other, between other and other begins to fade.
Hearing this can send us into a spin. After all, our entire lives so far ha…
Who we are is not limited to this body and mind. In fact, the body and mind is an experience of perception, in the infinite field of awareness that we really are. With this understanding, the idea of an objective self becomes less and less believable. As we realise we are the space in which all appears, separation between self and other, between other and other begins to fade.
Hearing this can send us into a spin. After all, our entire lives so far ha…
Learning the mind
The four stages of learning can be applied to any skill, task or competence. You might be familiar with them:
1. Unconscious incompetenc…
- Unconscious incompetence - we don’t know that we don’t know
- Conscious incompetence - we know that we don’t know
- Conscious competence - we work at what we don’t know
- Unconscious competence - we don’t have to think about knowing it
1. Unconscious incompetenc…
Troubled Genius
Creative prowess, towering intellect, the link with suffering and what to do about it…?
Pythagorus, Vincent Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway, Isaac Newton, Judy Garland, Robert Schumann, Lord Byron, Michelangelo, Winston Churchill, Sylvia Plath, Francis Crick….
The list of troubled geniuses goes on and on. And these are just the few who have made it through the suffering to expression and creating in recognised form… Far greater numbers, as we well know, are…
Pythagorus, Vincent Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway, Isaac Newton, Judy Garland, Robert Schumann, Lord Byron, Michelangelo, Winston Churchill, Sylvia Plath, Francis Crick….
The list of troubled geniuses goes on and on. And these are just the few who have made it through the suffering to expression and creating in recognised form… Far greater numbers, as we well know, are…
Glass of poison anyone…? Anyone…?
It’s a well worn expression and attributed to pretty much every sage in the quotations book… ‘Resentment is like drinking poison and expecting our enemy to die.’
Dr Gabor Maté in his book, ‘When the Body Says No’ takes it a stage further with research showing again and again that resentment and the stress it causes are major factors in the occurrence of a wide range of diseases and of the toll those diseases take on the body.
The danger of this finding, as Dr Maté takes great care to point out is …
Dr Gabor Maté in his book, ‘When the Body Says No’ takes it a stage further with research showing again and again that resentment and the stress it causes are major factors in the occurrence of a wide range of diseases and of the toll those diseases take on the body.
The danger of this finding, as Dr Maté takes great care to point out is …
The Secret to .....
At first, everything is an adventure.
There is so much to explore and see and listen to and do and make and learn and take apart and experience. You reach and crawl and pull yourself up and toddle, investigating your world, awed by the miracles of light and sound and texture around you.
Sometimes you cry and sometimes you laugh. Sometimes you are cross and sometimes you are not. Sometimes you are tired and you sleep and sometimes you are wide awake and ready for adventure. All of life is in you. T…
There is so much to explore and see and listen to and do and make and learn and take apart and experience. You reach and crawl and pull yourself up and toddle, investigating your world, awed by the miracles of light and sound and texture around you.
Sometimes you cry and sometimes you laugh. Sometimes you are cross and sometimes you are not. Sometimes you are tired and you sleep and sometimes you are wide awake and ready for adventure. All of life is in you. T…