Quiet & Disidentify From Noise

Posted: January 6, 2024 in Stimulus Space Response
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For me, itā€™s mental noise I need to quiet. For others, they need to stop talking.

Ram Dass (quoted in the graphic above) was a spiritual teacher, who, I havenā€™t studied a lot of, but whenever Iā€™ve listened to his talks or seen of videos of him speaking, would almost always give me goosebumps at some point. In a positive way of course. His cup runneth over with love and compassion.

Contrast that with the spiritual teacher I have studied the most, Eckhart Tolle. Eckhart rarely gives me goosebumps, but who communicates in a way that connects with me deeply, on whatever subject or subtopic he speaks about. I try to watch one of his videos on YouTube every other day.

Iā€™ve also read both The Power of Now and A New Earth which I whole heartedly recommend. Theyā€™re very long and dense, so going with the audiobook version is probably the most pragmatic way to go. Iā€™ve done a read through and a listen through of each.

As Iā€™ve gotten older, Iā€™ve become more quiet. Iā€™m sure I talked more and was louder and more obnoxious in the my past than my ego and memory will allow me to believe. But I am now, and for a decent number of years have been a more quiet than talkative person. I recommend it. A great quote that I find evergreen and true is; ā€œthe loudest one in the room, is the weakest one in the roomā€.

At times Iā€™m too quiet for my own good. But I find that to be a better way than the alternative. Especially in a culture where more and more people not only think what they have to say is valuable, but worthy of immediate and constant broadcast.

As Iā€™ve gotten older, my mind has not followed my mouth in becoming more quiet. Iā€™ve been meditating for around fifteen years now. On and off. The relative consistency to habitual consistency kicked in ten years ago. Meditation is one of the only things I recommend to all human beings without exception.

The practice of meditation has quieted my mind more than it was before I started the practice. Like anything else it is not a one time, cure-all, magic bullet. Hence why it is called a meditation practice. But it does help me. Thereā€™s more and more science showing how it tangibly helps people.

The greatest gift meditation has given me up to his point, is to help me quiet my mind and to disidentify from my thoughts. Individual thoughts, thought streams, mental movies, the voice in the head. Meditation has helped me to reduce their influence, their frequency, and to stop confusing those things with who I am.

So there is less mental noise. So I can hear more. So I can learn more. So I can do more. I donā€™t know about you, but I have a lot to learn and a lot to do that will help me live my life the way I know I want to. So every little bit helps.

#Climate & #Capitalism Crises

Posted: January 4, 2024 in Anarchy Journal Constitutional, Excess and Algorithms, Frackishima
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The narrative and perception on climate change mirrors that of capitalist economies in so many ways.

Trying to manufacture consent to view the issue in a way that it can be achieved at the micro level, when in fact the only success at mass scale is at the macro level.

We love to embrace scientific change if it gives our favorite influencer or podcast host something to sell and/or talk about. We love science when it finds ways to improve products and services.

But putting science to use for the masses beyond medicine has been a no go for generations.

There is more than enough money, land, and resources to change the way life is lived on planet Earth so that the way we live is more sustainable and has less negative impact on the world we live in.

But we donā€™t do these factual, documented, measurable things because it would negatively disrupt the capitalist system and itā€™s beneficiaries.

No different then kings sending the serfs to war over personal disputes with other royal families. Just on a larger scale. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Thereā€™s Value in Just Getting Through

Posted: January 2, 2024 in Stimulus Space Response
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You have to survive in order to thrive.

Crawl, walk, run.

You canā€™t pour from an empty cup.

We all want to be better people. We all want to do better.

But sometimes, some days, we just need to survive.

External factors show up.

Internal factors bubble up.

There is no instruction manual.

There is no such thing as normal.

As long as youā€™re not negatively effecting other people, itā€™s okay to just do what you have to do to make it through to the next day, the next hour, the next minute, the next choice, the next breath.

Radical Acceptance of #HumanNature

Posted: January 1, 2024 in Stimulus Space Response
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Judging seems to be a default setting in humans.

Itā€™s not just easy, itā€™s as natural and normal as breathing.

I know I have been guilty of judging others negatively, but what I was actually doing was projecting negative thoughts about my own flaws onto them. And Iā€™m not accessing my long term memory when I think of examples of this.

Iā€™m not sure if becoming more accepting of human nature comes with age or with experience. I just know that as Iā€™ve gotten older, and had more experience interacting with more and more people, I am (slowly) becoming more accepting of the fact that to be human is to be irrational.

I think that if we all take a minute to look back on some of our decisions in just our recent past, weā€™ll find the actions of an irrational person.

Studying philosophy has helped me with this. Reading books by Robert Greene has specifically helped me with this a lot in recent years.

To accept our human nature, is to be forgiving, to have empathy.

We need more of a lot of things in this world, but empathy, that is something that a majority of us can agree upon. Something free, simple, within all of our ability to control and influence.

Having more compassion for myself and empathy for others is an evergreen new years resolution for me. Being more aware and accepting of the irrationality of human nature has helped provide fuel for my ability to empathize to grow.

#Homeless Dreams

Posted: December 31, 2023 in Anarchy Journal Constitutional, Excess and Algorithms
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Homeownership, a foundation of the economic middle class, a trademark of the American Dream.

So many capitalist bootlickers, who confuse having a comma in their bank account with their class status, love to point to the stock market as a sign of how well the American economy is doing.

We humans love to feel smart and in control.

The modern American economy, this side of The Great Recession is drastically more complex and out of control of the average consumer and worker regardless of if theyā€™re in false class solidarity with the 1%.

Record homelessness means the system is a failed, broken disgrace.

Tent cities becoming an established norm across the country means the American Dream has become a living nightmare.

But it is hard to care about others when we are so busy just trying to keep our heads above water. Trying to make enough to keep ourselves warm, fed, and dry leaves little time or energy to help those who have already fallen through the cracks.

It would just be nice if we stopped lying to ourselves about it. But that would mean a drastic, immediate change in human nature. Iā€™m guess BlackRock will get out of the real estate business before that happens.

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