silent thunder

Was just talking about this over dinner last night. The seeming fact that nature is always moving toward balance, always balancing... yet never quite in balance. If perfect balance were ever achieved, this implies no motion, static perfection... but life is never static, ever flowing and fluid. The key for me is to be present and aware, in this manner I can ease into the flow toward balance without straining or excess. I find oracles to be incredibly helpful in bringing wider awareness and presence to the conditions of a question or situation. My usual method is the old Norse Runes and Animal energies, though recently the I=Jing has been pulling me with some gravity. It's just such a huge platform, it's daunting to begin... and my willpower for surmounting huge things diminsihed sometime ago along with my desire to free climb every vertical rock face I encountered... lol! I've never considered oracles to be a source of 'giving me the one true answer that I should follow, or else' however. Much like has been described here, I find oracles offer me the great benefit of wider, alternate perspective of the conditions I'm considering. Perspectives I may never have encountered if left solely to my own devices. Though no matter what the oracles relate... it's still me, engaging in the process, only now from the benefit of a wider platform... how I use that is still open to the flow... not constricting and absolute.

John Blofeld goes into this very thing in some detail and with some very practical drawings of the channels involved in his book: The Secret and Sublime, I recommend it.

It's always amazing to me when I meet another new old friend! Cheers bud and see you soon.

or Faith: believing what you want in spite of all else...

Exasperated woman: "If you were my husband sir... I would poison your tea!" Exasperated Man: "If I were your husband madam... I would drink it." loosely attributed to Churchill, but originally an anecdote overheard on mass transit...

As always mate... succinctly stated and well said.

speaking of sun... a fun live version and learn a bit of spanish, if so inclined...

Myths are public Dreams. Dreams are private Myths. ~Joseph Campbell

I guess its semantics... but to me, there is reality even there... Dao applies there too.

Tread carefully oaf! That loaf you just stepped into... is steaming dog dao.

be in a spot. effortless. just be. presence. awareness. what is there to seek, create, acquire, destroy, imply, attempt? can one calm the water of a pond, by smoothing it with the hand? by force of will and physical achieving? by mental acquisition? what is there... other than to be. allow the body to breathe itself. allow being...

synthesize

silently in space. emptiness containing all. silent clarity.

hmm... does one meditate to become something? acquire something? find a thing and then have it... possess it? who acquires something? who possesses? can one keep it safe and protect it from being lost, broken or taken? does one meditate to unfold something? drop something? let something go? what is dropped? who drops? who sits? who meditates?

be sober again ever unfolding... being ever unfolding

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I'll be content with moussaka...

It must be a comfot... to consider that the source of evil is some external character... separate from self... 'out there' somewhere causing all the dark, unwanted happenings and evil in the world and can be readily identified and eradicated with vigilance. I look the devil in the eye every time my reflection smiles at me. Is there ought without, that does not stem from the source, within?

teacher and teaching are as finger finger pointing not to finger, but to mystery, to beingness eventually, all will be transcended. teacher. teaching. conceptual mind. ultimate truth is wordless, silence, clarity, awareness... we talk with words, which are models of beingness... aproximations. words... thoughts as concepts about beingness. words are fingers. they point to beingness, but do not encapsulate it. the word water, the mental model/idea of water, will not slake thirst and cannot be drunk. yet may be talked about endlessly... debated, agreed, argued... yet never in this realm... experienced. words... mind artefacts... mental attempts to communicate and embody the non spoken truth experienced in beingness this does not mean words are uselss... but a reminder the menu is not the meal when all else fell away, what remains... awareness. presence.

It is pure awesome to see your digital footprints here again my friend! Welcome back!

For a time, I used white noise and binaural beat patterns when sitting. It was a potent background sound disabler, quickly becoming disregarded while drowning out all the 'psychological' sounds that tend to engage the story mind.

I'm with you mate. Never got the fascination with certain humans who trace a bloodline back to a certain time and name in history. All nations are built on violence and each boundary between nations represents little else than the spot where two violent gangs agreed to stop fighting... for now. The action of nobility, is a method of parasitic behavior. Feeding off the labor of others through intimidation. Trace our geneology back far enough and we all have common ancestors in the soup of the ancient seas... so who's more or less noble than any other? I contend, one of the greatest revolutions in human history, is the creation, and maintenance of the concept of 'land ownership'. It goes hand in hand with the notion of a king/queen (bully) who claims ownership over said lands and then demands tribute be paid (through threat of force, or the promise of protection) by any who would grow food, hunt, or even live or move across a patch of earth that has existed for billions of years. The audacious notion that one person can claim to 'own land' (or any thing for that matter), forcing others to pay them a tax for the privelege of living on land that they naturally arose from and manifested out of... seems to me, one of the great harmful acts enacted by humans. And it just keeps on rolling... In my experience, we don't even own our own bodies, let alone land or objects. Our bodies do most operations without our slightest conscious interaction... hormone production, digestion of food, hair growth, replacement of cells, removal of toxins, conversion of nutrition into energy and new cells... all while we sleep, talk, drive around... we don't own any of that. Even what most folks call the 'power of choice' to me is an illusory explanation after the fact, of a process that is unconscious. We don't own our own bodies, yet most folks have no problem accepting a piece of paper with a stamp on it from a government building means a person owns a plot of land. That people grow up accepting this notion that they are in debt to someone else for manifesting naturally in a body on this planet, because that's how it's explained to them before the age of reason and 'that's just how it's always been, so it must be right'... right? It's remarkable how it never seems to be questioned. Reminds me of the 11 monkey experiment of the 50's. In the end, the only thing I think I can claim with any surety of ownership, is my attention and presence. My young son taught me this one afternoon when he was a toddler. I was trying to get some writing done and he wanted me to play with him... so I'd get on the floor, get him interested in a toy and a story, then sneak up and try to get something else done. He would immediately pull me back. This went on a few times until it struck me... the toys aren't even remotely a thing to him... not real in a sense. The only thing he really wanted, was my attention, presence and connection. In that moment it struck me. This is perhaps the only thing I truly possess... all others come and go, but awareness abides... and it's all he needed or wanted from me. Kings/Queens/Nobility are parasitic in nature, feeding off others. yet something in our chimplike human process seems drawn to sustaining it, in spite of the horror and harm it ceaselessly perpetrates.

Hmm. Wish I could help, but I'm not familiar with that tune. I sure identify with you on the effects of certain tones, sounds and music on the channels, meridians and inner landscape. I find solfeggio harmonics to establish long lasting resonance in my bones and mind. Jami Deva composes all his music in the solfeggio scale. Singing bowls also have strong impact. Good luck in your search, hope you find the piece you're looking for...

Water flows downhill without effort... settling in the lowest. With no skill, training or intention, water generates enough force to sweep away entire forests and cities. It does this without mind, malice, care or differentiation. Water follows Dao.

awareness is not breakable, cannot be marred or scratched. it cannot be held, manufactured, lost or found where does it live? who is its mother? it is spotless. untaintable. effervescent. gossamer. saturating all... form and formless alike yet never can it be held... never a thing, lost or gained... yet imbued in all things ever present, yet never touchable truly giving rise to all and in and of itself not a thing, but a presence? beingness? birthed of itself unto itself and returning without any motion, without going anywhere in any amount of time the center holds, out of which and to which all returns being and non being the center is in no location, and is all pervading all within all one