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The Living Force
As I wrote elsewhere on the forum earlier, I've been among many members who have had back to school dreams lately. I figure that this is a call to arms from the DCM to all of us to ramp up the work and to prepare for a whole new world of experiences and lessons. This excites me tremendously though I have a tendency to see the glass as half empty rather than half full. My dream involved me anxiously trying to locate my rucksack, which I singularly failed to do. I hate losing things, it's a trait of mine, keeping hold of things and knowing where everything is, well, it's a good habit but can get annoying too. Anyway, the rucksack magically appeared in the dream the moment I gave up the search and stopped worrying about it (a metaphor for my obsessing over my memories perhaps), which pleased me no end.
I think the message was to relax the flow and not overdo things, you'll be surprised how much you have going for you if you check things out objectively. I consider my discoveries on here and Sott as the best achievements in life, though I could contribute more often I suppose, but I'm a bit of a slow learner. It staggers me to think about how much I've learned since about 1998, when my reading took a step up in interest level. Living with mental illness can be tough, but once I take the focus away from the self and look outwards at the world I tend to improve, which is strange, because much of what I learn of is depressing. I guess it's the notion of doing the right thing which energises me, regardless of the outcome.
Two things are focussing my mind these days; preparing for responding to increasing global turmoil, and also cultivating my karmic and simple understandings. Now, I'm glad the latter concept was found in my reading on here, 'cos if things are more simple they are also universal, and in an increasingly fragmented world this concept gives me hope for the future. But at the moment I'm merely at the point where I'm jotting down what I consider to be these fabled understandings, or at least the ones that I've found to be pertinent to me in relation to my general life plan.
Some context here; I've been living with schizophrenia since 2004, but it doesn't cause me as much trouble as it did in the past. Things genuinely are improving, incrementally. I've learned the hard way to take things slowly to ensure that I absorb information properly. There is a history of mental illness in my family tree sadly, many have suffered. Living with this condition brings its own idiosyncrasies and unique challenges, but they are not insurmountable, and it really helps if you learn (i) to love yourself in a healthy way, and (ii) to accept that not everything in one's life can be changed for the better in an instant. These two points meet the criteria for karmic and simple understandings in my book, and it has been very surprising to make deeper self-discoveries using the work on here as a springboard. Years before I'd heard of Jordan Peterson, I was already working on a self authoring project, complete with epochs and detailed notes from each period in time. If you're genuinely interested in understanding yourself it's do-able, the logjam in the mind just needs to be loosened up first. I used to be a very ignorant person in so many ways, and it's ignorance of self that stood out most of all. For years I flew through life by the seat of my pants, boozing and toking along the way, with nary a glance of introspection.
Perhaps my schizophrenia was a karmic response to my crazy lifestyle in my 20's? Quite possible. Anyway, I'm just taking stock of things here, and it helps to have a written record of my thoughts. I guess as a closing question to the forum here I'm kinda wondering what karmic and simple understandings have you all discovered in your time doing the work on the self?
I think the message was to relax the flow and not overdo things, you'll be surprised how much you have going for you if you check things out objectively. I consider my discoveries on here and Sott as the best achievements in life, though I could contribute more often I suppose, but I'm a bit of a slow learner. It staggers me to think about how much I've learned since about 1998, when my reading took a step up in interest level. Living with mental illness can be tough, but once I take the focus away from the self and look outwards at the world I tend to improve, which is strange, because much of what I learn of is depressing. I guess it's the notion of doing the right thing which energises me, regardless of the outcome.
Two things are focussing my mind these days; preparing for responding to increasing global turmoil, and also cultivating my karmic and simple understandings. Now, I'm glad the latter concept was found in my reading on here, 'cos if things are more simple they are also universal, and in an increasingly fragmented world this concept gives me hope for the future. But at the moment I'm merely at the point where I'm jotting down what I consider to be these fabled understandings, or at least the ones that I've found to be pertinent to me in relation to my general life plan.
Some context here; I've been living with schizophrenia since 2004, but it doesn't cause me as much trouble as it did in the past. Things genuinely are improving, incrementally. I've learned the hard way to take things slowly to ensure that I absorb information properly. There is a history of mental illness in my family tree sadly, many have suffered. Living with this condition brings its own idiosyncrasies and unique challenges, but they are not insurmountable, and it really helps if you learn (i) to love yourself in a healthy way, and (ii) to accept that not everything in one's life can be changed for the better in an instant. These two points meet the criteria for karmic and simple understandings in my book, and it has been very surprising to make deeper self-discoveries using the work on here as a springboard. Years before I'd heard of Jordan Peterson, I was already working on a self authoring project, complete with epochs and detailed notes from each period in time. If you're genuinely interested in understanding yourself it's do-able, the logjam in the mind just needs to be loosened up first. I used to be a very ignorant person in so many ways, and it's ignorance of self that stood out most of all. For years I flew through life by the seat of my pants, boozing and toking along the way, with nary a glance of introspection.
Perhaps my schizophrenia was a karmic response to my crazy lifestyle in my 20's? Quite possible. Anyway, I'm just taking stock of things here, and it helps to have a written record of my thoughts. I guess as a closing question to the forum here I'm kinda wondering what karmic and simple understandings have you all discovered in your time doing the work on the self?
