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Filling old things with new life? Looking back at what we already know, as a reminder? Not everybody can be a hottea like you.

I am scared by your threadnecromancy. It is an interesting viewpoint. But it could just as well be that those 'demons' are simply one's own. After all, the whole beautiful simplicity is to erode barriers, to let flow, to reveal so it can be processed. Healing means confronting what we shoved away long ago, after we finally believe we have matured enough to face them. In that context, there is poetry in your latest response in this thread.

I am wondering what possible connections are between them. Got any experiences or extensive studies in this? Because long time ago I read about people saying they became able to control what to do in their lucid dreams, like watching movies on a screen and such. And this control aspect is very interesting to me, because I have had dreams where I became aware that I was dreaming (and typically leading to waking up shortly after), but due to them not being vivid dreams it always felt to me like just part of the dream script. You know, in normal dreams you seem to be acting from a less higher-intellectual point but just to some degree on autopilot or such. But is this actually so? I would assume based on common sense that in order to truly be able to do whatever you want in your dream, you would have to transcend that vague dream consciousness, and that would inevitably lead to vivid dream state, basically I would theorize that that very deliberate willpower enactment and control is what is creating the vivid perception, kinda like an inevitable effect of it. But people who have had vivid dreams should be able to clarify this easily: Are there vivid dreams where you are still only in that 'autopilot script mode'? Is that even possible?

Harm and Heal Hate and Hope The cosmic joke. H-H. ___________________________________ A being spins around. Six times it projects its will violently. If it dares to proceed, it will continue where it started, with only faint reminders of its past follies. Revolution.

"MEDITATION" Outside, minds are raining, storming, burning, flooding. Inside it is calm, warm and cozy. Boon and bane. Can you take the best of both worlds? That requires rejecting the worst of both worlds. Which is twice the effort, if not much more.

Knowledge keeps you from falling. Knowalledge keeps you from moving. This I know.

Some may be relatively easy to be understood as an illustrative result of intention, others are more vague. Some may be very poetical. But how do you deal with their occurence? I have heard advice to just let them be and not pay them further attention after taking notice. But then what do they indictate? In my experience it is not like anything discernible in the path of life would explain why they occur more or less. Although it might be that in some cases actually letting them be and not paying attention / not sending energy into them increases their frequency. So, got any insight on this whole dynamic? Because I think one can raise their stress level significantly by trying to derive something from them. Are there any experienced, credible views on this, like what their nature actually is and whether they might be by nature absolutely useless if taken as guiding signs?

Maybe it's related to how my ayahuasca experiences were also very abstract. Might be indicating a need to work on the emotional instead of the rational, dunno. As you said, for opening the heart through embracing the mystery. Here is a moment from the game "The Search" that I always try to consider in this context:

Then how are you suddenly back shortly after I said that? 🤔 Also, any updates on the situation or feedback to new comments?

BTW, I just noticed: Unless the list automatically excludes OPs, the OP isn't following this thread anymore.

If you keep meditating on this, you might eventually feel its merit. But make sure you meditate efficiently.

Arguably not really a poet, unless the unpoetical train of thought was intentional. Maybe the whole poet persona here is fictional. You did translate my last poem's core, though, in the first line. That is one of my favorite sayings. ... Which just reminds me of a related one, probably semi-original, and something I say occasionally. Core theme being family, closely related to the theme of home: Blood is thicker than water, They say, But love is thicker than blood. Although I only base this on the original thought, which we could criticize, because it might be based on evolutionary-materialist principles, and in that case, water is actually the more spiritual way than blood, and then love would be 'thinner', i.e. ethereal, superior even to water. Then we could also examine it from an arguably Daoist standpoint and suggest that water is roughly a healthy balance between blood and love. But maybe only if we assume the worldly version of love, not the spiritual/divine (unconditional) one.

Home is where In pleasant as in unpleasant times Everything is alright.

"The Process of Creation" Without a doubt It is What it is?

Good expression of the theme of clarity. Obeying the vow is FOR a PURPOSE and only for that. It was not a concern there. The rule that is followed without exception has no value. At least not to an imperfect mind. Correction: At least not to a mind that, consciously or subconsciously, considers itself imperfect. Do you remember the name of the movie that had something like this as its plot finale? A hero-adventurer seeking something, meeting various temptations and distractions on the quest and eventually finding it in his own reflection. Can anything be sought that is NOT found in our own reflection? Excellent expression of the theme of mental blockage. The harder we try, the easier it gets to drift further apart from the solution. Also of negative mental focus: When something appears impossible/illogical at first, it can be hard to imagine it not being, since the mind loves that simple non-answer. (Normally it hates non-answers, but not its own ones.)

"Mixed Feelings" One step foward Two steps back Wins the spiritual race

And even no-refuge can become a refuge... from facing the need to find refuge. Also once again... Also... The root houses confidence. The crown houses hope. When both are empowered, they meet in the heart and build... faith. If you try to make this rhyme, you're a dope.

Some insect species go extinct before they are even discovered. Even more sadly, this doesn't even need a dive into outright spirituality. General philosophy, psychology or just frickin' logic would help and make very cautious about making such problematic claims that easily erode credibility. (key term - proving a negative) Even if you find dead remnants of insects and can determine that they are of an unknown species (probably one gene a tiny bit different, hah), you still don't know whether they are all dead at that point. It's the hubris of a surveillance-control mind. There have been enough cases of formerly believed extinct species suddenly appearing again, and insects can be damn good at hiding and evading an accurate census.

I don't count that since it's not in the context of environmentalism. Can hardly discover what you weren't around to discover. The fossil would somehow have to be dated to a time far enough back that there is no chance that species still exists. I am commenting on the general issue of confirmation bias in the topic of biodiversity, because the claim quoted tends to go hand-in-hand with an ignorance of how many new species might be emerging that we haven't found yet, combined with the detail obsession with genetic variations and potentially bloating statistics with their vanishing. The guy who made the quoted claim also claimed that bees might go extinct in the coming decades, which is cringy when you consider they are valued livestock animals all over the world. Could just as well claim chickens or cows might go extinct.

They are confusing choices. "Like" has a symbol of love. "Thanks" implies it was somehow of benefit even if it might have been unpleasant, but it has a trophy symbol, which is usually associated with indicating a high level of excellence, basically "wow, that was amazing". I don't know which one to use when, in part due to the ambiguity perceived on my part and in part due to the awareness of the ambiguity on the other side, or ignorance of it. Perfect setup for miscommunication, albeit probably of little consequence.

Through some channel I communicated this long time ago and it's still an issue. I get an e-mail notification, and I am viewing my e-mail as plain text. But in that mode the link is invalid. The HTML link goes e.g. ?do=findComment&comment=966388 and the browser shows ?tab=comments#comment-966388 But in plain text it is ?do=findComment&comment=966388 ...and leads to the forum responding with " We could not locate the item you are trying to view. " Also, if I edit that link to read ?do=findComment%26comment=966388 ...it does go to the thread but doesn't jump to the comment. The browser can work with those character codes, so it must be the forum software. Obviously, because it receives a valid URL and cannot interpret it. I'm also not sure why it provides a different link for plain text, whether that's believed necessary for something like backwards-compatibility. (Maybe the HTML view translates it automatically into "&"?) But there's definitely inconsistency in the forum system.

FTFY

Reminds me of that story about alternating good and bad luck in a matter and the master's indifference to them. Also hints at the value of the marriage oath - in good as in bad times - which also touches on the saying: "If you cannot handle my worst, you don't deserve my best."

Your user name prompted me to write a kōan: Imagine the peaceful chaos we could have in the world. As for your poem... The concept of reaching a state where all wishes are fulfilled but only the wishes from there and none from before is meditation material, too. And lately my consciousness has been exploring the theme of the poem more intensely. One mantra (potentially another kōan) that emerged that seems so simple/primitive but also wields a lot of power: You are not the same person you were in the past, so the past's pain doesn't belong to you. G.N.P.S. (grammar nazi post scriptum): It's its, not it's. (Not to be confused with German Nazi post scriptum where it would say "It'z itz, not it'z.")