SHACK 4073 WHERE IS EMPTINESS?

 

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Where did the solid ice cube go when it melted, it lost its form, where did the water go to when it evaporated, where did the rain fall when it fell, where did all the human forms go when they left the corpse, did holding on vainly to the form assist, it causes stress and anxiety, the tight grip to hold tight to that which inevitably must go.

SHACK 4017 QI GONG

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THICK CHI

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SHACK 4118 THE NATURE OF REALITY

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The nature of Reality. There is no actual reality, we manufacture and manifest reality because of the fear of not having reality, we are not really here and that we really exist.

So because of non existence we create existence in the sure knowledge we exist and are here, whatever you want here to be. Satisfied hmmm  not really.

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SHACK 4119 ZENICLE

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 I want to know I know. Why so? Because I want to know I exist, maybe you do not exist,  does it really matter?

SHACK---aka --- GEOFF

SHACK 4120 THE ILLUSION OF REALITY

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'Reality is mere an illusion albeit a very persistent one'>Einstein. I have read and met many a scientist and philosopher, some of note and recognised as celebrities, some chatting in cafes and some out of the way places and off grid characters and of course the many dramas and films, videos and articles on the nature of reality.

Some famous philosophers and scientists when they had an awakening to whom they really are after many years of the quest, searching deep into what they felt was and is reality and living with a shared consensus that in philosophy we are inculcated and so everything we are and learnt is mainly passed down inherited knowledge, beliefs and so on and when stripped of these through a realisation we are mainly a conditioned brain washed being with a few innovations and dared going beyond the so called norm and not really stepping outside the box, either fearing madness, insane attitudes and shunned or locked away in some asylum or realising the empty atom and the quantum stuff that when one tries to put a handle on it, it disappears into the void of the empty mind of the philosopher who realises that the mind is an illusion full of someone else's ideas, thoughts and  beliefs and can either of them live with the empty mind, in fact mind has gone and if one embraces and surrenders fully to this, one has found an awareness and joy that is non local and has no destiny or subtle substance to support it and seems to be of no description or have a no location, it is consciousness. 

One can realise this intellectually and be what I term intellectually enlightened, a sort of academic satori and although the realisation seems so profound and so real as to convince one this is it I am free and one with the all and all.  Dr Suzuki remarked 'Satori is to be with God before he said let there be light'. For many who have reached this understanding that there is no reality, or that reality is a concept arranged from the storehouse of experiences collected and drummed into humanity since thought began and reinforced by authority in order to rule and have their acclaimed position in society as to be the top banana so to speak and to go further the descriptions of the atom, particle and wave are mere concepts to hang one's hat on so to speak in order to give the mind some sort of reality and keep one safe from the reality of no reality and so stave off the event of the collapse of logic and materialism and realise the emptiness of no local reality and fall into the everlasting arms of a non local no definitive anything of a seamless nature which is infinite and eternal, has no borders or explanations and yet to the experiencer who also is seamless and nonlocal it is a feeling of connectiveness and unity of joy and compassion.

The struggle to surrender fully not by will, for will cannot do this and is an expression of human endeavour and so gets its inspiration from the accrued stored and of inculcated experiences based on one's chosen belief system, academic knowledge or just plain life style and graphics therein. So it never new, it may appear to be so and a few upgraded, configurations, a few cosmetic touches it is merely left over food reheated with a few spices and garnishes added. 

The hungry ghost, the phantom of the mind, seemingly so real creates the reality according to its inculcated storehouse and its strategies and creates this entity named the ego, the collective of life's brain washed conditioning and acts accordingly to the precepts not necessarily inherited as it were but made up of a scheming ploy to be top dog or just the opposite a lazy non conforming attitude and let life slip by and often resentful of others or many other manifestations of human behaviour. 

Then the crux; I know all of this and have sampled the seamless at times and yet there is a bit, a hard and fast stuck bit of the ego that will not let go and to some this awakening was a curse and I know of some who went to distractions such as alcohol, extreme sexual indulgence, went crazy and some that distracted themselves in extreme behavioural activities and one or two who committed suicide and many became depressed and psychotic. For me I wrestle still with the final jump and the thought of the illusion or reality has become a Koan and the paradoxical nature of the illusion of reality versus the most of humanity believing in the reality and the challenge to live in the world especially with the state of humanities moral compass, religions, wars, politics, powerful wealthy persons, multinational companies with no allegiance to country or origin just to make profit and live the so called good life and shunning from the idea that impermanence is the nature of the reality of the Universe and seeking eternal life as a robot with their 'brain and personality' down loaded and then be  a cyborg, or there is no no after life and might as well just do what is the best  for me and not mind the others after all the end is oblivion. So what I feel is that the Koan of the Illusion of Reality and in fact that is the deception, there is no reality and my ego rebels at this, all egos do not like to be deceived and will challenge the deceiver, the magician who pulled the rabbit out of the hat and told us it was real and like a child I thought it was and now I know it was and is not real I have the conundrum which I have solved and realise it is the Koan of seemingly reality as inherited inculcation versus there is no reality proved in science and philosophy and yet science and philosophy are mere concepts to HOLD reality in place and are just explanations which change overtime and they are indeed a moving phenomena with a Noble Prize to make sure we keep the illusion safe and sound and yet I feel uneasy about the reality because I have tasted the non reality and there is the 'stuck hard bit in the frying pan' that refuses to be completely empty and pristine.

SHACK   aka    GEOFF

SHACK 4116 POLITICS

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 Do you understand politics? I confess I am bamboozled. For instance there are agreements and they are broken, the one that comes to mind are the two Minsk agreements that were supposed to stop this Ukraine and Russia war and somebody has altered them as from the original on sites like Wikipedia and taken out the main elements, I use to monitor these and do articles on many more, there were so many around the Covid debacle that I gave up. Doctors, professors sacked because they went against the narrative and brain washing, now coming out with freedom of speech gradually being restored.

The trust  certainly in the UK of politicians is almost zero and the debates in the parliament are like a children's party and TV and Radio programmes with discussions are hand picked and thy never get to the points raised and the experts squirming to answer and even heckled are not shamed or embarrassed.

Politically when women and children are slaughtered in great numbers so it is politically ignored when even the biased media point out the atrocities. So where has the moral compass gone, for instance in the UK many children have suffered during the Covid Lockdowns with increased mental health, so just think of those slaughtered and deprived in countries now at war or in new leaderships that take us back many years although promising reform and fresh air.

Is there a solution; I feel that many are aware of the problems but are either seduced by the media and easier take away meals with additives that are doping the minds and failing the bodies and just collapsing on a sofa and watching violent films or war dramas or porn further cause apathy and dullness. Then again in the UK some horrific murders by young males that are watching on the dark net are viewing videos on killing and weapons of torture and so on and it is becoming so elsewhere. 

In the UK a man raped his girlfriend, murdered her sister and mother, young boy murders three young girls and others injured in dance class, young man murdered his mother, sister and brother and was on the way to slaughter youngsters in a school and the USA school and college slaughters, in Germany car and vans ploughing into crowds in markets and so on, the war in Israel and Hamas. All over the world the crimes get more grizzly and gore and mindless psychotic with mental health at an all time low.

Some say this is a purging and cleansing, the wounds and boils of the past bursting and the puss is coming out like a lancing of a boil and the cancers and malignancies of past countless karma coming to the surface of the battened down ships hatches of rotting cargo needing to be cleansed and like one of the labours of Hercules;- for the fifth labour, Eurystheus ordered Hercules to clean up King Augeas' stables. Hercules knew this job would mean getting dirty and smelly, but sometimes ...It seems this is happening and pollution and floods, droughts with extreme suffering is upon the world and perhaps as the the sixth extinction is drawing nigh the signs are a wake up call if we heed it.

It needs an awakening by grass roots and not Netflix or social pungent media or corrupt multinational companies who have no allegiance other than to make money and harvest their own self power and dominance to somehow grow a social awareness and spread and share their wealth and could a great miracle come about if the mass population really want it.  

SHACK   aka    GEOFF

SHACK 4115 KOAN

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WHAT IS HERE WHEN THERE ISN'T A HERE

OR

MAYBE THERE IS A THERE?

SO

WHERE IS THERE THEN

SHACK   aka   GEOFF

SHACK 4114 AM I ANYWHERE?

 

FROM FILE

Most people have 28, billion, billion, billion atoms in them and the Universe is composed of atoms as above 99,999999999% empty space. Surely you might question am I really here? or have we been brain washed and inculcated to believe we are here or somewhere?

Perplexing isn't it or a Koan.

SHACK   aka   GEOFF

SHACK 4113

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Breaking from the known 

is 

Freedom


SHACK  aka GEOFF

SHACK 4112 MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

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I felt to quote Shakespeare as it seemed to fit this article.

What if I told you there is nothing real, there is no definite reality, what might you say, this cannot be and I say you and I are programmed to believe this, these are the programmes and codes, we are created as such by our Creator.

The lesson is to 'see' behind the facade of this facade, this seemingly so real illusion and break free to that which created it.

Why do we think and believe we are programmed like this? Perhaps this is the lesson to get to who programmed us and ensure the Creator of Its programmes and so verify Itself. I am here and not an illusion and so break free of the programmes and then we and It will know. . Or I am not here and I am an illusion of myself. 

SHACK     aka   GEOFF 

 

SHACK 4111 THE CALL OF THE WILD

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 The call of the wild, the call of the soul, the call of Spirit, the silent call, the still silent voiceless voice. Do you hear it-NO, Do you feel it -YES.

Sit and listen to it, it is still and yet moving, it is noiseless and yet speaking, invisible and yet very there and apparent, what is IT then?  I haven't the remotest idea, so there you have it. What is this IT?

SHACK   aka    GEOFF

The first time I heard a Wolf call I felt a tingling sensation go up my spine and then I was filled with and ancient feeling of the unknown origin of ourselves, I feel this tingling, an aliveness, I feel connected to nature and the Universe. I feel spirit, I just feel feeling. I feel I am a soul whatever that maybe and as unearthly as I can be and yet strangely very much in tune and alignment to Mother Earth and her comfort. The tingling feels icy cold and yet not cold of Earth cold, it feels neither hot nor cold but a sensation which the brain cannot decode, so its nearest is cold / hot and it is not of this world and yet it is a fundamental of it. SHACK. 

SHACK 4110 RIDERS OF STORMS AND WINDS

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 Sometimes a quote or phrase 'grabs' one and its sticks in mind although one may not understand it or its meaning it seems to resonate somewhere in the psyche and may linger for some while.  

There are two that I set out; ' Mountain Spirits, who walk the wind, Guide me on the path of resilience and determination'. This feels very ancient an old tribal of some ethnic race in the mountains who felt the banshees or spirits rode the turbulent mountain winds, the snows and challenges that the high mountain passes and valleys with crevasses challenged them and they sort of surfed them and went with the winds thermals and so on they felt the waves and rode them and this seemed to me a lesson on riding the difficulties and fears, the anxieties, set backs and some disasters in ones life. I felt that instead of fighting the tides of opposition and currents too strong for my body and seeming inevitable, I could surrender the hard thoughts of doubt and fear and try to relax and let the fear subside by watching and sensing the undercurrents that offered a way out of the dilemma even it meant going along with the waves and winds until a way out spontaneously and miraculously appeared.  

The resilience was somewhat physical and not so much a determined will power but a gathering and building up to trust in the 'deep feel' by an inner relaxation from anxiety and angst. A sort of letting go as was felt appropriate for that circumstance presented. The determination was an inner 'knowing' by riding the winds that it is all is well even through the darkest storm and riding it out was the determination not by will and fear but relaxing and trusting in the deep intuitive feel in the quietest atmosphere that one could engender by being as still and quiet as possible.

The second one; May the sacred waters cleanse my soul. And the the fires of transformation forge my spirit.  By waters it feels like the flow of awareness, qi, kundalini, dreylas and the flow and buzz I feel as life evolves and courses through me like a river of light, the feel of aliveness, the specks of energy(dreylas) buzzing and pulsing everything is alive even the bed and chair this seems to be food for my soul and cleanses the scum of the harshness of the world, everything thing seems pristine and pure.

Sometimes the 'heat and cold' of the energy cascading through me raises my awareness to a joy and nourishes my spirit to such an extent that I  feel invincible, not so much physically but as a spiritual energy being and my earthly fears are 'burnt up and dissolved' not by meditation alone or qi gong or prayer but by being still and feeling beneath the surface of thought to a stillness that beckons and invites me to rest replenish the soul and let the body just rest and do its thing.

These two quotes seem to suggest very ancient and in past experiences that built up the the now of my many lives journey, not so much the incarnations but the nuances that shaped the lives to be. 

SHACK    aka    Geoff

SHACK 4109 STILL AND STILL WITH STILLNESS

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 When I am still, quiet and thoughts and buzz have subsided, I am just aware of being aware, who runs or is charge of my body then? Who organises my heartbeat, my organs, I am being breathed and kept alive in this form and certainly not by any effort on my part, not thinking of the effort to stay alive or to save it either.

So why not totally surrender to the unknown, invisible something, indeed is it a something, no thing? That unknown something, that awareness aware of Itself, might have something to do with the organising of the body's and functions and how it does this is the Great  Mystery and should we try to analyse, define and grab it, we limit its wonderous works.   

Get behind me oh ego, agenda. When the old cantankerous bull elephant retires to the forest, leave well alone. Let the bees be undisturbed in their hive. Let the Mother bear and her cubs be at peace in their den. Let the Wolf pack do its hunting and living. Let me be still and trust.

SHACK    aka    Geoff  

SHACK 4108 SILENT GROWTH

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 In the silence of stillness I feel the silent growth unfolding like a scroll and it is seamless a steady emission, an implicate order of something evolving, as if an inner blueprint were being unfurled, as if the divine plan was being displayed in a silent evolutionary growth, not the growth of form but of spirit, an energy being unfolding in elapsed unlimited non local time.

It feels like a slow cooker, the contents being energy spiritual particles, like an alchemic process and the crucible being a containment field of an energetic etheric nature and the out working to grow in the silence away from the chattering mind and tense body. A secondary effect may help the physical form but that is not the main aim, the aim I feel is the growth of an energy 'body' a being of light and power far from anything flesh or physical endeavour and I feel that the silences that enrapture me will grow and expand and when it is mature and ripe I will, that is my individual spirit will merge fully into the growing energy glow and I will pass from the physical into the spirit that is all encompassing. 

This feeling grows and I find myself more and more in silence and solitude and yearning more of it, one may say it is growing old and yet many elderly are content with a hobby, watching TV and other pursuits and this is OK and their karma, their allotted destiny, I do not feel isolated or lonely, I feel I am on the right path as it were for me. I may be kidding myself, however I feel it my bones and water so it is said.

In the stillness of my being I rest content and yet occasionally there are sharp reminders when the stream of the silent growth is somehow interrupted by events not foreseen or intended and these increase the thirst and quest to be in the intimate presence with the silent process within or is it within? It is indeed everywhere and yet individual as well, such is the wonder of being still and feeling the spirit doing its silent work however one has to be still and acknowledge it.   

I sit still and attentive, time has no meaning, I am still and no thought, just a stillness with nothing to offer or attract me, it is beyond the physical sensation and yet is somehow resting in it and gradually the physical will have served its purpose and the silent 'gnawing' of the growing spirit will shine through and the job of the physical had completed its purpose. This does not necessarily mean a painful illness or disaster to shear away the physical to reveal the spirit, it can be a silent smooth parting of the waves so to speak, this again is in the hands of a greater intelligence which has the blueprint and destiny for the individual and that individual becomes one with the one and withal and is no longer an individual.

SHACK  aka  GEOFF

SHACK 4107 INCARNATION

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 I have described my Near Death Experience elsewhere in these writings and on national TV and Radio. What is clear now more than ever; I did not want to come to Earth and was convinced to do so and I thought I had a mission and that seems to be the case in a way.

It was not a grand mission of a world light or do anything much, a few workshops and a few healings of patients and myself. The main mission was to learn to learn the facade of apparent reality. 

SHACK   aka  GEOFF

SHACK 4106 QI

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 Sitting still and with an agitated mind, there was such a stillness in the garden, the trees still, birds and and cat still as if transfixed, no wind just a heavy grey sky and no cloud movement and my mind stagnant still and an ominous feeling and then I started Qi Gong and became aware of an icy tingling in my spine and then spreading to my whole body, so powerful as to feel is was hot / cold and I had the feeling it was chi, kundalini, orgone, life force, spirit and so on. I felt it was stimulating my whole body inside and out so to speak and felt the chi like pin pricks, darts of energy and I sometimes see these minute specks as 'dreylas' it was like fine rain spitting on water and I felt this was rejuvenating and stimulating the stem cells every 'prick' was like acupuncture needles injecting energy, life force and renewal, it felt regeneration was taking place, it was not so much physical but seemed to go deep into the substrata of my being as if the build up would eventually rejuvenate the physical.

I felt the tingling sensation was the chi / life force entering the 'atomic level' as it were arriving from the quantum level to the coded 'sparkle' the information 'fertiliser' of the minute particles that have the life giving force commencing at the 'ground level' so to speak at the very centre of the body the dantien / hara everything seemed to be imbibing, ingesting. soaking up as if every pore was opening up and sucking in like a sponge this chi energy, this tingling pin pricking sensation and then travelling deep into  the inner lining of the organs and the fascia and even to the foundation of the fascia itself, in fact it only becomes solid flesh when sufficient trillions of these specks are sufficient in numbers in order to give the feeling of so called 'flesh' however under scanning electron microscopes it proves to be a moving tableau and like so much as they say the empty atom.

So I sat feeling this sensation of icy hot imbibing and feeing renewed mentally and realising that there was and is a need to continue this quiet stillness tot fill up a depleted 'sea of chi' that had has taken toll of my being by Covid years and vaccine injury and wasted fantasising and wasted theorising and past non creative ideas and speculations. At my age of 86 in the year of 2025 maybe I have the chance to fulfil the deficit?

SHACK  aka  GEOFF

SHACK 4105 NOW AND ZEN

 

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At one time in my late teens I attended a Zendo in Chiswick in  West London and I was brought up there with quotations and sayings from several Japanese  老師) old teachers and many of these saying were well known. 'what is enlightenment--a dead log' I felt this meant when the mind was quiet and in meditation it was as if it were a dead log, but pleasant and peaceful. Then 'if you see the Buddha coming down the road cut his head off' I felt Buddha nature was not seen or had a form it was an experience of emptiness of thought without suppression it was no mind and is not a form. 'What is a hill is a hill and the busy inquisitive mind on the quest for enlightenment says it is not a hill but with no mind it becomes a hill again' To me this meant in the search and quest for satori 悟  an awakening to Kensho (見) one's true nature the mind tries to identify the experiences on the way, the journey and because it upsets so many beliefs and convictions the mind tries to find an acceptable explanation so as to feel secure and safe and yet in the end has accept the fact its just a hill.

If there is not an acceptance not just a compromise or giving up and going to extreme distraction or depression and some even suicidal, then to some the gruelling journey is worthwhile and to some it is a challenge not so much of the will or the move away from suffering but of a distant ancient calling of the spirit and soul.   

SHACK  aka  GEOFF

SHACK 4104 ENOUGH

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 Rarely do I find an image that illustrates or expresses what I wanted to write about. I have not gone to their work or am affiliated  with them in any way and thank them for their image.

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

Courtesy MTC.ae

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. 

SHACK 4097 THE QUESTION OF ME?

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 There is a well known quote in self growth and spiritual circles which is 'Who am I' and another quote is aid to be 'when you do not have to ask this anymore you have the answer', I  question that? Many gave up the questioning got despondent and went into several distractions.

When I was given a Koan by Sensei any answer I came up with was a swift response of a flick of the 'the encouragement stick-Rinzai keisalzu' and later on I understood why as in many back SHACK'S because any logical or 'smart arse' were likely inculcation, note in particular

persistently with repetition, advertising and education, lifestyles, religion, science all can be of this nature,` depending on how blatant, insidiously, subliminally and just repetitious chanting can induce such effects. Grooming by the internet of children and vulnerable persons have become a nightmare for the victims and those who are in authority and charged with upholding the moral compass and ethics. 

My exposition is that the 'me' is not in the thought process which to me is in the category of the conditioned inculcated brain mind processes. So this hints at something beyond thinking or explanation it is prime pristine consciousness and goes beyond description and definition, it is an experience. It is awareness without thought and the empty mind as it were of Eastern Philosophy is that. So emptiness is not a dull dark void but a consciousness of awareness an alert awakened sharp something without thought.

This theme of emptiness and in previous SHACKS  I refer to as 'nowhere to hang your hat'  not having an identity as such and a kind of rebirth back to 'show me your original face koan' and a further one 'show me your face before you were born' and this akin to to not having a choice with your birth and your name, the first inculcation, I refer to as Stamp 1. Having to live with this emptiness is the hall mark of the spiritual warier and not made into 'hook and false belief' and having to remind oneself to be empty.  Appreciating there are beliefs in reincarnation and pre-life contracts and this in serious research has some bearing on the birth, should one carry over unfinished business or failure to clear the cache of a previous incarnation then one may return to clear these issues and so have a clear pristine consciousness and perhaps we are witnessing now the clearing house of outworn not fit for purpose being forced by war torn wars and outdated fear and hate in order to come to the emptiness which is pure potential and a renewed cycle of a rebirth into awareness with thought and inspiration  coming from the empty seamless space as it were. 

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The conditioned mind is similar to the image above mainly all virtual reality, in fact the 'me, I and you' are constructed on beliefs which some are so fixed by persistent repetition that they become a platform, a construction pad, a known and safe place and yet on research and questioning are mere ideas that have been for centuries the rock bed of many and so clung too sometimes so fiercely that one would defend it to death and kill for it. The 'me' is a historical library and catalogue all bound together in a tome sometimes so heavily treasured and cherished they become holy.  

A quote by J. KrishnaMurti 'we are not afraid of the unknown we are afraid of losing the known' so much so that when we look at the Empty Atom and the Observer Effect we may be puzzled and the quantum 'stuff'  is making the theories, vast equations and names that boggle the intellect and yet many a physicist have seen one cannot put equations on the quantum stuff because there is every possibility and probability in there and has the observer the ability to choose a probability and possible choice, the choices are usually made from the 'known which is the Me'. 
 

The message of the empty atom is, is by the virtue of its emptiness it showing the emptiness  of the Universe and is not recognising that space, emptiness is awareness, it is consciousness.  Which is the ME before conditioning arose, also emptiness cannot be filled if it is then form and creation is there and all forms planets, stars and bugs are impermanent, they come and go whereas awareness does not, only when thought clouds the mirror of one's true self. They are virtual components projected onto the screen of mind by the collective belief system named ego. 'Mind is like a mirror bright make sure no dust alights'

Particles, atoms, molecules are said to be the building blocks of creation, they are found in stars and so on and they are so set that I feel they are mere platforms, scaffolds to hang certain thoughts on that clothe the ME with local impermanent virtual ideas and collected data, scientists have created the illusion as have Universe that these particles are real and delve into quantum stuff and one will see the mystery and instead of admitting the emptiness of it all mathematical equations and formulae, theories and vast machine to smash matter and find there is nothing there or even smaller 'bits' and when studying these bits one is studying oneself, we are the matter under the scanning electron microscope and really asking who are we? 

There are no atoms and so on they are mere constructs to help humans understand things about creation, they are steps on the way, rungs of the ladder until the conditioned local mind gives way and opens Itself to nonlocality and the illusion we exist and this is the illusion and delusion that actually we do not exist, this is the crux we have been inculcated to believe we exist whilst we may exist only in the Mind of The Universe, We were and are dreamed into existence by an aware intelligent creator, a part of the dream and fantasies of that pristine prime consciousness.

 SHACK aka GEOFF

SHACK 4096 PRISTINE

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This morning of the twelfth of January 2025 and looking out of the window to a deep frosty clear bright morning it brought a flash thought and a smile with an inner grunt as if a deep recognition and agreement came; lovely nature the trees bare and yet glorious the fences and huts frost covered with moss peeping through and a quiet stillness.

I found myself reflecting on the flash; nature is so pristine and is not contaminated by human thought and yet paradoxically it is human silent delighted admiration and gasping at the beauty without explanation, just sheer unadulterated love and appreciation a 'thoughtless awareness' that joins with the thoughtless awareness of nature, humans and nature realise their unison and essence. In that instance humans gift of self awareness is shared with nature and the exchange of thoughtless beauty and essence in nature to humans is exchanges by human self awareness to nature. It is as if nature and humans have awaited these gifts of Spirit to one another for many a years.

SHACK aka GEOFF   

 

SHACK 4095 SATIATED

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 I have taken poetic licence over the hungry ghost in the image above. To me the ego is the hungry ghost mainly because it is invisible as a sentient form as recognisable to the senses and it only shows itself through its actions, it is the prompter behind the scenes that which is composed of beliefs, patterns, graphics and emotions conglomerated into an energetic mass and formed into a entity which feeds of a healthy pure mind source and is indeed a parasite or a virus like being. 

The ego entity is never satiated and this is because it knows and is keenly aware of its nature, which is leached from the life force of the individual. Because it is leached it is aware of no real authenticity, it flounders along and when exposed as to its flimsy existence it then tends to grab and shore up and build layers around itself which in many cases leads to defence and attack tactics.

Its leached energy is fed by inculcation( the process of fixing beliefs or ideas in someone's mind, especially by repeating them often: persistent repetitive input, sometimes relentless and threatening) so the life energy is leached and feeds a box set of hardened compact concretised dense energy fields which the brain decodes by signals from the neurones and then acts on the body mind interface and produces an outcome via and commensurate to the inculcated belief systems. Hence other and opposite systems of inculcated egos can cause war and severe relationships and can destroy the host if its demands are not acted upon or destroy those opposed to its doctrines and actions.   

The typical hungry ghost has a large belly and thin frame, the belly demands more food to build its thin and emaciated body into a more substantial frame and structure. Even a hopeless case of lack of self confidence is a form of this ego, it thrives of its hopeless image and it blames its misery on fate and an angry God or parents and so on and then endeavours to impress the world and often the homeless drab person can rise to be a defiant despotic dictator endeavouring to hide its feeling of weakness and historic failure. The emotional hurt and trauma ever in the backdrop of the mind, a haunting taunting mocking hazy feeling that seems to stick like glue to a almost non identity defying grasping or grabbing it by the throat and doing away with the uncomfortable feeling of inadequacy an inability to deal with life and to compensate it with extreme or depressed measures.

Then the egos entertainment; the emotional buzz, the highs and lows, the roller coaster of images and endless fantasies, each one exacting the emotional high, low, drama or even death, I had patients who were addicted to sex, nymphomaniac, satyriasis (satyromania, Don Juanism ) and they toured the worlds 'flesh pots' both were bi sexual and he went mad trying to find the 'kicks' for new partners, positions of anatomy and so on and he then went to psychiatry and I do not know what happened, she went to drugs and again looking for more thrills and buzzes, she refused help of any kind and threw herself of a high rock in Cornwall shouting, this is the 'final thrill' and died crushed and maimed. Then many fantasies, each one trying to get the emotional high or satisfaction which ever the ego demands according to  its stored box of graphics and life experiences. In vain sometimes revisiting old fantasies in a desperate effort to get the 'last time' feeling and high and then being disappointed and feeling robbed and cheated and self blame and sometimes the guilt and humiliation of such episodes and some saying, Oh God knows what I am doing and trying to hide in darkness or another room so as God will not see them or in their heads.

Some egos are not aware of all the above and just feel its OK until they are deprived of all stimulus, others fear that they will carry this over to another incarnation and come back to try to finish off what they feel it unfinished business and some as actual ghost that try to possess a host or feed of satanic black magic rituals or just sex parlours, brothels or individual shaking with emotional highs and lows. When there is an awakening and recognition of the above and the condition still arises, there then can be a window as the awakening often brings in with it some means of relief or assistance although not entirely at peace and absolving or exculpating in front of God or ones own image of right and wrong in the moral compass and comes to terms with it and some break through.

These can be classed as addictions and any attempts to supress, bury, justify the guilt or the rampaging lust for more and more in order to surround oneself with layers of protection, an armour as to the hurt one feels and burying one's head in the sand, may give temporary peace but it lays there in the bushes and sand and awaits a chink in the armour and springs into life and one is off on the wheel of never ending repetitive karma, does it ever end, maybe, but does the Universe stop Its seasonal cycles, sometimes it comes to a sell by date and evolution kicks in to stop the same old, same old from reoccurring and perhaps that is why the Five Mass Extinctions were about and the turmoil we see today as everything seems to break down is the same message. Perhaps these are the signs of the 6th Mass Extinction  arriving and maybe with the knowledge of the previous five we can alleviate the extreme devastation.

There is a scientific thing which I like and have my own interpretation and poetic licence of and it is Viscount IIya Prigogine and his dissipative structures in thermodynamically circumstances; all organically living systems have to exchange a sort of trade with the outside systems such as food, water, then excreta as faeces and urine and so on, the organism then through this exchange grows and evolves, then at some point there is sort breakdown when the input and out put balance and  a kind of chaos ensues as the organism grows through it stages of evolving. Like the crab shedding its carapace, the snake its skin, the caterpillar to the chrysalis and baby to infant and so on at these dissipative events a sort of chaos ensues, the snake is vulnerable while the new skin evolves, the crab the shell is soft until hardens and the caterpillar goes through its metamorphize to the butterfly. Should the exchanges with the organism and the external supply be healthy and excreta have been equal for instance food in urine and faeces out acting as compost and manure then on this equal and nourishing exchange the chaos is the neutral as it were silent growth and the outcome the organism grows successfully to its evolutionary increment should the exchanges be hindered or not fully integrated then it emerges after chaos into a blemished form. This often seen when mutations occur and self replicating cells and organs suffer some defect.    

The outcome; maybe chaos is the breeding ground or field for the phoenix to rise from the ashes of the old, this is what manure and compost are.

SHACK