Contemplating 2 - nature, music & usMore thoughts and ideas on music, life, nature, art .. contemplating  Mind games - illusion continuums trickery We think that we 'see' movement, but we don't Thoughts are the same, they appear out of previous thoughts or perceived events and then, depending on whether we choose to engage with the thought (or not), they fade away and/or turn into something else The finest of particles so far found in quantum physics, also 'jump' about, appearing to be 'here' and 'there' both at the same moment - and may be equally well described as 'energy' Perhaps, if we accept uncertainty as normal and come to view life as a stream of events - experiences - without trying to apply constraints of time (when) or what (mind games) .. the magpie is singing might also be  Cycles .. The introduction of machinery and mechanization had totally destroyed any humanism implicit in English traditions of social order, and this destruction was reflected in a factory system which debased both product and producer ..  4 reliances "Rely on the teaching, not on the person; Buddhist teaching  Balance Indigenous societies always strove for 'balance' in community life; balance through moiety, gender, clan, land, spirit - and developed intricate social systems to achieve it The yin and the yang Spiritual philosophy too, most often seeks the 'middle way' - the balance - between head and heart, between sensual self indulgence and self mortification And an (Australian) politician ?  Freedom May we all realize freedom freedom from ignorance and avarice freedom from shouting, public fibbing and officials freedom for all in and of the earth freedom from 'Freedom'  Making sense my eyes see Our sense organs do not interpret or catergorize - we only do that as part of conditioning, of being taught and of learning What and how we see/sense is determined by what and how we are able to see/sense; 'able' being the crux of it Reactions to (some) stimulii are essential (that something that is 'hot' will 'burn' - ie has consequences); trying to add 'morals' and 'political' dimensions leads us into all kinds of trouble .. Our minds? There is no reason nor necessity for us to attach anything to them - emotions, labels, categories of good or bad, interpretations and opinions And: If something exists 'outside' the perceptible parts it doesn't mean that they do not 'exist', it just means that we do not perceive them - or at best, do not comprehend them in our usual (habitual) ways If we are able to comprehend that such named subjects as 'magnetics', 'radiation', 'love', feeling 'apprehensive' .. do 'exist' (even if not measurable in rationalist terms), then the possibility does exist for greater comprehension of those (other) parts of our world as being just as existent as the parts we do comprehend  Ownership I belong to this place My eyes see these forms, colours, sky, earth, and have since I was born My ears hear the sounds of air, water, people, nature My skin feels the wind, rain, warmth, cool My nose smells all these things and retains them as memory My thoughts are shaped by these elements, by the seasons and their cycles My body is made from all this My language is formed by its sounds and its stories; the stories are mine and are me I do not, nor need to, 'own' this place; this place, I belong to  Subject and object We are taught to divide everything this way; to view the world this way; our language is predicated on this 'view' This is 'me', 'my', I - the subject; everything else is external to 'me', is an object separated from me The cosmos - stars, sky, thoughts, air, nature, people, memories - is 'external, 'not me' Alternatively The 'cosmos' is the centre, is 'all', is everything and is inclusive of everything; we are 'just' a small part of this whole What we call 'physical', sensory, earth, air, water .. is always in transition, changing forms in a giant cosmic sea and it is all fine  Fear and economystics with no dance, song or spirit full of fear inventing, justifying, denying, one life in which to grab at everything  Views .. from here .. sees 'fear', and its unending promotion through contemporary media sees us losing our abilities to respond to where we are in the world and relate to each other as 'us' - rather than a 'they' being 'other than us' fear that manifests in presuming that those who yell loudest (that that is 'bad', is 'evil' that 'this' is 'good') are 'right' fear of knowing we don't know the view from here .. sees the constant media parading of famous, celebrity, money rich, the greedy as worthy of note and envy sees the constant creation of envy as a market tool sees isolated word mongers, eyes averted from life, processing words devoid of human experience; all head, no heart the view from here .. contemporary life that has to make itself seen - and heard - constantly its existence dependent on the quantification of everything as being 'useful' - but only if exploitable
of seeing, from a distance, the degree to which we have opted out of life, opted out of retaining any real decision making capabilities - about aspects of life that directly affect and concern us. of accepting that being dominated by entrenched interest groups is 'normal' of seeing the entrenched lack-of-people-interest and compassion in the sorry spectacle of 'government' of accepting that we (in Australia) dully import tv, media, advertising and unending promotions from other countries businesses as somehow supplanting any stories we might have the view from here .. It includes an age old culture, still operating in part, with a strength and an apparent knowledge of self and earth community that is wonder-full the view from here ..  Like to contribute or comment ? Email us, here Go to: |