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The Living Force
Link: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/174897-Behind-Closed-Eyes
I want to thank the SOTT team for posting this article. It was both educational and inspirational for me in the sense that it indirectly addressed a concern I had at the time.
I am still practicing self-observation, but was beginning to give more and more attention to other matters. I noticed I was forgetting myself a little too often. When I got to the following point in the article, I got back on track:
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The slow fluctuation pattern can be compared to a computer screen-saver. Though its function is still unclear, the researchers have a number of hypotheses. One possibility is that neurons, like certain philosophers, must 'think' in order to be.
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I don't know why the sentence in the above quote is bolded, but if what I suspect is true, then this hypotheses is probably the correct one as it has certain correspondences to reality as we currently understand it.
The first thing that came to mind was the relationship between 'being' and 'doing' - especially in the Work.
Simply stated, the hypotheses tends to remind me that if I want to 'BE' an STO candidate, I have to perform those activities that define that particular state, and continue them in order to maintain that state of 'BEing'; [a neuron ain't a neuron if it isn't doing 'neuronic' things].
If, tomorrow, I stop my self-observation and self-education...then tomorrow I won't be an STO candidate. When DOing stops, BEing shrinks to nil.
The good news: there's nothing scary about this...I know that I do not have to worry about my BEing anymore. I don't have to worry whether or not I'm an STO candidate or anything else. The only thing I have to be concerned with is the question: "What am I doing?" My activities will define my BEing at a given time and over an extended period. And right now, the goal demands my activities to be the sincere and consistent gaining of knowledge and understanding of myself so that I can be of some use to someone.
[quote author=Article 174897]
Survival, therefore, is dependent on a constant state of activity.
[/quote]
Indeed.
Thanks again.
I want to thank the SOTT team for posting this article. It was both educational and inspirational for me in the sense that it indirectly addressed a concern I had at the time.
I am still practicing self-observation, but was beginning to give more and more attention to other matters. I noticed I was forgetting myself a little too often. When I got to the following point in the article, I got back on track:
[quote author=Article 174897]
The slow fluctuation pattern can be compared to a computer screen-saver. Though its function is still unclear, the researchers have a number of hypotheses. One possibility is that neurons, like certain philosophers, must 'think' in order to be.
[/quote]
I don't know why the sentence in the above quote is bolded, but if what I suspect is true, then this hypotheses is probably the correct one as it has certain correspondences to reality as we currently understand it.
The first thing that came to mind was the relationship between 'being' and 'doing' - especially in the Work.
Simply stated, the hypotheses tends to remind me that if I want to 'BE' an STO candidate, I have to perform those activities that define that particular state, and continue them in order to maintain that state of 'BEing'; [a neuron ain't a neuron if it isn't doing 'neuronic' things].
If, tomorrow, I stop my self-observation and self-education...then tomorrow I won't be an STO candidate. When DOing stops, BEing shrinks to nil.
The good news: there's nothing scary about this...I know that I do not have to worry about my BEing anymore. I don't have to worry whether or not I'm an STO candidate or anything else. The only thing I have to be concerned with is the question: "What am I doing?" My activities will define my BEing at a given time and over an extended period. And right now, the goal demands my activities to be the sincere and consistent gaining of knowledge and understanding of myself so that I can be of some use to someone.
[quote author=Article 174897]
Survival, therefore, is dependent on a constant state of activity.
[/quote]
Indeed.
Thanks again.
