SHACK 4104 ENOUGH

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How long is a piece of string, I feel enough is measured, felt or thought is enough. To me it is determined by the data and content in the mind cultivated over life's experiences and inculcation.  What ever your desires and conditioning prompts one that this is enough.

Enough is enough when one's beliefs, brain washing, life style and culture with success or failure become the standard of measurement which is the base and foundation and is demonstrated by the demands of the ego and determines the conditions and measurements set in the reactions to a challenge. 

SHACK  aka  GEOFF

SHACK 4103 RENEWAL

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 Sitting in silence, the stillness embracing my being there is a sense of renewal, as if my body is absorbing and ingesting something. Something that is tangible and just a feeling of renewal, regeneration, rejuvenation. This is the spirit, there is not much in the body, but it is as if I awaken to a fresh clear mind.

This something I cannot adequately describe or define, it is a feeling of renewal and what it renews is not physical or maybe a later effect, it is I feel spirit and it is if my body is like a sponge and it is slowly soaking up this feeling. I sit, just feeling this filling up, I have no thoughts and there is a profound rest and comfort and a feeling of all is well, really well. Not so much in the physical and it is if the physical is forgotten and just not there and yet it is.

I feel to sit for hours just imbibing and then I get the feeling to get up, come too, stretch or eat, drink. My body still stiff from an injury to the hip and yet all is well and a Buddha smile plays and lights up my face and heart and in that moment I know what it is to smile from the heart.

I feel I cannot get enough of this ingesting and renewal and when a weary me, a weary world yearns for this renewal and rest from the fevered brow of intense effort by the ego to drive on for success at any cost and then to distract from this fiery endeavour by alcohol, exotic food, sexual activity or watching a movie of a sporting event only for me to feel there is something lacking and the tendency to repeat the distractions and to feel a hole a something not quite hitting the mark. 

Then the 'voice of the quite within me' calls me back and I hungrily soak up the quiet and the rest in the silence and the stillness and that hole is filled with 'something of renewal' and I feel that my being is being filled up, renewed with this energy it is Life Itself, Life speaking to me in eloquent terms that is a language of the soul and reminds me intuitively this is a real life and not the impermanency of the world.

This is also alchemy quietly dissolving the hard ego thoughts to quietness and being renewed and also the cleansing waters of the soul and taking the slow embers and fires of transformation that shape and sculpt my being into the eternal creative unfolding that Universe holds for us. 

More and more the noisy cacophony of the human world jars my head, my brain and actually causes a pain of a sort which is a reminder to come back home to the quiet, even natures loudest sounds are not as distorting as the human sounds of some films, music, technology and incentive behaviour.  

Oh noisy world of materialism, what do offer or have for me, my soul has it all?

SHACK   aka   GEOFF

SHACK 4102 VESSEL

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The Use of a cup is it's emptiness

The Choice of Tea OK

Empty to have Coffee

Empty for some other beverage

Is the Mind such a Vessel?

Should it be filled with one choice of beverage?

SHACK   aka  GEOFF

SHACK 4101 RIPPLES OF THE MIND

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The Still Pond

A frog

Ripples

Thrown Pebble

Ripples

The Wind

Ripples

Did you see the wind?

shack  

aka

Geoff

SHACK 4100 THE EDGE OF MIND

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 To some Eastern Masters this may be an asset and should you have read my previous articles I write about 'no mind' and the inculcation processes that lead to a loss of identity psychologically speaking and finding out who you are without a definite identity. I have referred to this as 'nowhere to hang your hat'.

When we suffer a loss be it a job, health, a relationship we may feel a hole and a chip is missing in 'the memory bank' which is my personality and ego collective. I begin to doubt who am I without the loss, I become less and yet living and exploring that loss and the hole it left behind so to speak and just resting in the hole that seems so blank, a void so daunting and unfamiliar may have surprising results, one may find a peace in that space and the dark night of dread may give way to an extraordinary sort of 'empty'  mind so to speak and that perceived loss is seen as an attachment to form in which everything perishes and the clinging to that form be it beliefs or or so called tangible structures causes pain of attachment to that which the Universe teaches is impermanent and transient like a dream seemingly so real and vanishes and is forgotten in time and some wish or strain to get the dream back and its meaning.

So the edge of mind maybe the content of the mind and its juxtaposition and juggling of the content seems fresh and a new life and yet like the furniture in a room maybe changed round or new furniture added in a refurbishment it is the space of room that is always there, even if extreme cluttering is enforced. So the mind is always empty of content which some may seem as stupid, ignorant but that space is the real you and is there for form to arise or the room to fill, take away the walls and that space is still there, it is consciousness without thought and one is not a local imprisoned mind in a mind that really does not exist, a room of furniture that is a temporary construct to either exist for a persons lifetime or move to a new place and in the end all goes to an impermanent existence. 

Should one be able to enjoy the room and its content and move on without attachment or needing the furniture (content of mind, beliefs, agendas and so on) and become so attached as to become addictive to them and so form an identity which one tries desperately to have forever and realising in an awakening that this identity is just content and is or can be changeable and like a dog chasing its tail, its really an illusion and like the magicians trick no matter how real one thinks it is it was merely a sleight of hand. Perhaps that is what we are all here for to sort out the sleight of hand for -----? 

So falling of the edge of mind is really seeing the illusion of the content of mind and madness that is feared is because the content of the data in the mind has not the answers to reality and who one is, that is a breakdown of ego content, the computer ran  out of memory and sort rapidly through the data and it did not match anything therein or thereout,

 so suicide, depression, violence or shutdown with perhaps extreme pursuit of distractions may follow to drown the pain and it will be a shadow and one may forever be looking over one's shoulder to imaginary pursuer which was the content of the mind in one of its upgrades or juggling endeavours to make a reality and be forever safe. 

SHACK   aka   GEOFF

SHACK 4099 STEPS TO NOWHERE

 

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Imagine and feel that you are an ice cube and that is your present incarnation and in that cube is stored you present life's experiences, with graphic memories of the high's and low's and that you are full and vibrant or depressed and sunken beneath some unknown fear or a heavy pressing overbearing weight. Perhaps you are riding high or contemplating suicide or into heavy addiction and distraction anything to bury or ease the pain of living. Then feel the sides of the cube interrelating and interfacing to those near and dear or alone and isolated, whatever your circumstance endeavour to see your journey so far.

As our  lives move on the ice cube is melting and losing its shape of course the ice would melt quickly as to compared the analogy as to our body and also depicting the relationships regarding the elapse of time and its disparities. The interfaces may change and if the cubes were in a bowl they would interface at differing angles as the melt progresses which may by analogy mean changes in relationships.

For those with hard and fast rules, disciplines and beliefs they might endeavour to stop the melting and refuse to lose shape and content. They might fear mortality and even fight the process of death and gradual dying. And some who see that the thoughts and content of their minds are but inherited and inculcated and conditioned and realise their 'brain washed' content and that it is mere thought and conditioning and feel the cube is real as life goes on this planet and has rules of engagement and are content to hold very little of the content as possible and furthermore they realise that their journey maybe to find another 'level' of content and they may awaken to a deeper fundamental consciousness which does not rely on the content of thought and the melting process, this is the process of natural evolutionary procedure and they are merely following increments and steps to no thought in fact steps to nowhere. 

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They accept they are a temporary form arsing in this space ( consciousness) and the formless nature in which they tasted through the awareness of stillness is Life and that is their true nature. The so called empty mind the 'no mind' is not the cube and their identity with the cube or their body is a natural process and the melting is leading them to the unknown, the nothingness, the empty atom is a step into the unknown and they realise they were not afraid of the unknown but were clinging to known that is the analogy of the cube to the body and they can let go of the cube without fear or trepidation and accept and live without identity in the embrace of the still silent space of Being.

We become conscious of our true nature beyond thought and the so called thoughtless nature of no form or content, we become self aware of ourselves as indeed the Universe is.

SHACK   aka   GEOFF

SHACK 4098 REALITY

 

Is there such a thing as reality? Have a look at the you tube video above. It is suggested that it maybe simulated?

My view is that words in the video as all words are ideas passed down from theory to theory and it is all taught and on borrowed or upgraded ideas. So I feel that our minds manufacture or manifest mind patterns into beliefs so as to make it real and sort of solid, sort of safe and sort of, sort of.  This all comes back to inculcation which is the persistent repetition of ideas and data which are instilled in the mind, in fact mind maybe because of the data, the data moves on and some believe it so vehemently that it becomes a belief that in some is so water tight as to be a life long platform that life and death is the foundation for all thought and action.

I feel that our inculcated ideas, agendas and beliefs form our reality, it is just a mind game and is just a virtual simulation as real as virtual reality and A1 will enhance the fantasies of reality and lead us further into the world on non reality trying to prove it is reality. 

SHACK  aka  GEOFF

I offer another view of the Video above; The first of many was Sir James Hopwood Jeans (1877-1946) and he stated 'The Universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter... we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter.

— James Jeans, The Mysterious Universe, ^[18]

In a 1931 interview published in The Observer, Jeans was asked if he believed that life was an accident or if it was, "part of some great scheme." He said that he favoured, "the idealistic theory that consciousness is fundamental, and that the material universe is derivative from consciousness," going on to suggest that, "each individual consciousness ought to be compared to a brain-cell in a universal mind." Courtesy Wikipedia (He was a physicist, mathematician and astronomer)

I was evicted from UNI over my views on consciousness and creative intelligence. I was not surprised it was not mentioned in 

the video, although all the mind games hinted at it.