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k_sereinroomToday would have been a tolerable day to get out weather-wise, but I opted to stay in. There were numerous small household things to take care of, and now I feel accomplished. Nothing in the environment yelling at me to be handled.
I read the first chapter in the Ken Wilber book. Because of his writing style, I won’t be recommending it, but I find it helpful. Already it’s putting some of the well-worn phrases and concepts in their place. The book is about Wholeness, something we are lacking in our fragmented worlds. But there isn’t just one path to wholeness, there are five. And all five would make for a Big Wholeness. The five kinds are Waking Up, Growing Up, Opening Up, Cleaning Up, and Showing Up.
There are various segments of these paths being aggressively marketed to us. No one had to be perfect at any one of them. Someone like me, who had to raise herself, and find a way to survive and navigate, in a world where it was clear things are very wrong and people don’t know what’s going on, would naturally become a seeker.
I feel like I’ve been very small, walking in a surreal forest most of my life, and the looming trees are oppressively shouting at me: “Meditation! Yoga! Kill the Ego!”. (Those are part of the first path, Waking Up.) Now, the landscape can become more balanced. I am much larger, and those trees, bushes, and wild animals are further back from the path. I can glance at them and think, “Oh, that’s where you belong.”
It hasn’t been that intense 24/7. When you are in survival mode most of the time, you don’t have bandwidth for those. Many people aren’t even curious.
There are some well-meaning people who want to alleviate human suffering and have the wherewithal to map things out, like Contemplation, etc., but sometimes these are just alternative things to consume to the usual alcohol, porn, and gambling type things.
I don’t blame people for attempting to find ways to earn a living on this planet with its bizarre systems of being so challenging for people to have basic needs met.
The Waking Up path is the one which the world’s religions reside in, and I’m guessing it will be the one I am most bored with. The first chapters are introductions, and the latter chapters are overviews. There will be exercises, which I likely won’t do until I’ve at least read the whole book. I hope I won’t get distracted from this book, which happens all too often.
Some days I can barely string a sentence together. I simply can’t rely on my brain, as I can’t rely on my body. It’s a mostly interior adventure that people in my life haven’t understood or been willing to tolerate.
I read the first chapter in the Ken Wilber book. Because of his writing style, I won’t be recommending it, but I find it helpful. Already it’s putting some of the well-worn phrases and concepts in their place. The book is about Wholeness, something we are lacking in our fragmented worlds. But there isn’t just one path to wholeness, there are five. And all five would make for a Big Wholeness. The five kinds are Waking Up, Growing Up, Opening Up, Cleaning Up, and Showing Up.
There are various segments of these paths being aggressively marketed to us. No one had to be perfect at any one of them. Someone like me, who had to raise herself, and find a way to survive and navigate, in a world where it was clear things are very wrong and people don’t know what’s going on, would naturally become a seeker.
I feel like I’ve been very small, walking in a surreal forest most of my life, and the looming trees are oppressively shouting at me: “Meditation! Yoga! Kill the Ego!”. (Those are part of the first path, Waking Up.) Now, the landscape can become more balanced. I am much larger, and those trees, bushes, and wild animals are further back from the path. I can glance at them and think, “Oh, that’s where you belong.”
It hasn’t been that intense 24/7. When you are in survival mode most of the time, you don’t have bandwidth for those. Many people aren’t even curious.
There are some well-meaning people who want to alleviate human suffering and have the wherewithal to map things out, like Contemplation, etc., but sometimes these are just alternative things to consume to the usual alcohol, porn, and gambling type things.
I don’t blame people for attempting to find ways to earn a living on this planet with its bizarre systems of being so challenging for people to have basic needs met.
The Waking Up path is the one which the world’s religions reside in, and I’m guessing it will be the one I am most bored with. The first chapters are introductions, and the latter chapters are overviews. There will be exercises, which I likely won’t do until I’ve at least read the whole book. I hope I won’t get distracted from this book, which happens all too often.
Some days I can barely string a sentence together. I simply can’t rely on my brain, as I can’t rely on my body. It’s a mostly interior adventure that people in my life haven’t understood or been willing to tolerate.
