An Earthling's Journey to Life: nature

Dienstag, 31. März 2015

542 | Creatures of Habit

I was reading Addictive Habits on Activist’s Journey to Life

<<...habits are quite similar to addictions: it's something you do over and over. You are often driven by a compulsive need (though with habits it's not experienced with that same intensity). It is something that you have done so often that it is now automatic - you don't even have to think about doing it>>

which reminded me that some days ago I’d wanted to share some thoughts on The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck

<<If you find yourself consistently giving too many fucks about trivial shit that bothers you — your ex-girlfriend’s new Facebook picture, how quickly the batteries die in the TV remote, missing out on yet another 2-for-1 sale on hand sanitizer — chances are you don’t have much going on in your life to give a legitimate fuck about. And that’s your real problem. Not the hand sanitizer.

…In life, our fucks must be spent on something. There really is no such thing as not giving a fuck. The question is simply how we each choose to allot our fucks. You only get a limited number of fucks to give over your lifetime, so you must spend them with care.

…Essentially, we become more selective about the fucks we’re willing to give. This is something called ‘maturity.’ It’s nice, you should try it sometime. Maturity is what happens when one learns to only give a fuck about what’s truly fuckworthy.>>

Well, the things we ‘give a fuck about’ are interesting enough to look into. Let’s see –

We start with learning how to give a fuck about what everybody else thinks about us (how to be cheered and not get scolded), we go on with learning how to give a fuck about what we wear, how we look and what impression we make on everybody else (whether we are liked and validated in the fucks we give a fuck about) – and if we’re lucky something ‘happens’ at some point in our lives that makes us wake up and realize that everything we’d given a fuck about was really just bullocks in our head and that there are much more serious and REAL stuff out there –which is bluntly put right HERE– to give a fuck about.

What we CARE about – what we ‘give a fuck’ about – really does say something about who we are. It does in fact say a LOT about who we are.

And since we’re talking in the context of habit and addiction, have you ever looked at your thoughts and reaction patterns, your habitual ‘way of going about things and reacting to things’ and how you repeat the same things over and over, and the way it all seems ‘so normal’, it all seems to be things you just HAVE to think, or say, or do, it just WANTS/NEEDS to come out…? Yep, those are the very habits that inhabit you, you have created them, but to begin with they were the very things you shouldn’t have given one fuck about. But alas upon our entrance into this world the system starts bombarding us with impressions, imprints, woes and ways and coping mechanisms. We watch and copy, there is no other way to make sense of and fit into this ‘adult world’. And we end up addicted to our own thoughts and reaction patterns, our own fears and desires, most of them unreal, irrational, yet we follow them, we validate the fuzzy logic in justification, and rest in self-righteousness. Right? Right. The human nature has been carefully formed and crafted, and today we have the ‘human condition’, the world as we know it.

Human nature, human condition – are they perhaps one and the same? Should we perhaps look more into and see: the conditioned nature of the human for what it is, a product, a construct, the result of systematic equations…

I’ll leave you with these questions marks at this point, more in this context in the next post.

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Samstag, 28. Februar 2015

537 | The Future of Change -part 2- Self Responsibility

<<…with the gradual embodiment/living of the realization of Interconnectedness – in how we relate to life as a whole and thus how we practically honor life within who we are and how we live and co-exist – the experience of interconnectedness would become gradually more real, as in: more constant, more consistent, more present; until it is through and through who self is.

Then the experience or feeling of it would appear to ‘diminish’, as the living of Interconnectedness becomes more ‘normal’, more natural, more given, a state of being and living – at that point it’s been fully integrated and ‘automated’ as self, within/as who and how self is – it has become our nature.>> from Day 535 | Awareness & Interconnectedness

<<That which we take for ‘human nature’ is also something that is taken for granted, as given, however it was created throughout time and it’s been automated to exist in ‘accepted ways’ within ‘accepted definitions’. We can't see it because we are it.>> from Day 536 | The Future of Change

...But that’s not entirely true. We CAN SEE it. At least we can see it in “others”, in the world, everywhere around us. Just mostly not within ourselves. Denial. The answer to denial is self honesty. See – if we only see the ‘evil’ “out there”, then we will only blame, point fingers, judge, demand justice, condemn, conflict. We will never however understand the manifestation at hand – what created it, how it emerged, what sustains it, why and how it exists, and thus how it can be changed. Most importantly, we will miss all the little and subtle ways in which that very same manifestation in its essence exists within our very own mind, or in our behavior. But because we have judged it, we fear it, we hate it, we condemn it – this also often happens when one has had a self-honest insight into one’s own mind: one immediately goes into reactions of self-judgment, or guilt, or self-victimization or self-loathing. Because we have judged it, we have separated ourselves from it; and because we stand in separation, we are biased, we cannot see the whole picture. That makes us part of the problem.

So how do we become part of the solution?

Through taking self responsibility as life, those separated parts (within/of self or within/of the world) can now be ‘lifted up’ and amalgamated into and as life HERE. We have a long way to go as humanity, and what I would like to see is us giving to each other, fairly sharing the resources of our home planet and leading sustainable lives in the abundance that is here for all. This is a lengthy process and it begins with self. Because we are the cells of the world, of humanity on earth. Hence a process of self realization, self liberation, self responsibility in awareness as life emerging.

Self is the origin.

Through self responsibility we take back our power and can stand in integrity.

And the more self becomes and stands as that self-directive principle in awareness as life, determined to no longer accept or allow anything less than life, anything less than living our full potential in every moment; determined to honor and enjoy life and embrace the creative potential of oneself that will facilitate equally the creative potential of humanity as a whole and each individually: the more we strengthen ourselves as life in awareness, the easier ‘change’ becomes – and the ripple effects spread throughout humanity. This revolution is about love in action, compassion in action, awareness in action – and we must do it together. We can only do it together. We are all here on Earth, breathing the same air, sustained by the same water, the same sun.

What would the world look like if everyone was able to be their own judge (in self-honesty, not in self-punishment!) instead of pointing fingers at others and judging the world/systems? If everyone would embrace self responsibility in the context of life and would support oneself to be and become the best version of oneself ever possible, to transform oneself from a system product to a living being in awareness – as a contribution to one’s own life experience and life as a whole?

Why have we not been doing that as human beings? Is it because we abdicate our power and responsibility to others, to gods, to systems, to faith and hope and other imaginary saviors? Is it because we fear our own power, not trusting ourselves to be the leaders, to be the change we want to see in the world? Is it because it’s easier to remain ‘comfortably numb’ than to take responsibility, stand up, stand out?

Self Responsibility is Power. Self Responsibility is Self-Response-Ability, thus the ability to respond at any given moment HERE in a self-directive, responsible way, as opposed to our habitual responses being reactive, automated, conditioned patterns, born of systems.

Let’s birth ourselves as life HERE – let’s make this world a world of LIFE, no longer a world of death, of destruction, of separation. Let’s restore the value of life as a matter of fact, as a matter of action, of change, of transformation – Let’s embrace LIFE within ourselves and each other!