SHACK 364 METHUSELA

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What’s the use of living a thousand years if you build up karma and a huge concrete ego, mind you some folks do and it’s OK for them and not everyone believes in karma? Even in concrete, cracks can begin to show and water droplets in winter freeze and expand the minute holes in some concrete and over the years cause cracks and this can apply in analogy to ego. And sometimes the ego can be gradually sculpted by reincarnation until the slate is clean and of course this again depends on one’s views of reincarnation.

The Universal Plan of Evolution maybe as follows; everything arises from a fountain of Potential and then as waves and ripples as fine energy and then gets to be more compact and compressed to make form that human brains decode as solids. This original energy is the aware intelligent cosmic creator source and force. The potter shaped the clay into pots into forms. Individual pots were given a piece of the potter in our example a piece of cosmic consciousness and the name of the plan or game is to figure out the plan or who the potter is and his source and so gradually refining, searching in order to alter the shape of the pot and what is put into it and so gradually in the fullness of time become one with the potter and cosmic source.

I feel the form is the pot and the space if not filled is the ‘piece of cosmic intelligence, for the use of a vessel is its emptiness’ and the potter and the Cosmic Intelligence is space which is aware intelligent invisible cosmic mind.

The space within the form can be dense like ice, refining to water and then to steam and then to vapour when the form can no longer contain the substance in its finer form.

The vapour then joins the greater vapour of space which again refines to the finer more subtle elements from whence it came.

These subtle elements themselves dissolve into the sea of evolution and become potential again, potential has the possibility and probability to be anything that is imaginable and more so, this is best left to the all knowing, all seeing awareness. Of course the awareness sees otherwise it would not be aware.

So in a way as everything gets recycled and is cyclic in nature, indeed in essence we are Methuselah's.

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SHACK 363 FAME

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The tiredness of fame; being a celebrity, being someone special; do celebrities do it for money only, or do they do it for the adoration and love of their fans and from others, being fair they love the physical parts and their talents and get joy by performing these, and then there are the perks such as advertising getting recognised at restaurants and special discounts and so on. 

When all this ceases and there are only memories to feed on, a shallow feeling of the real thing. Then everyone expects something from a celebrity ‘everyone wants a piece of me (an autograph, a smile, a nice word, a selfie) said a well known celebrity.  Do we indeed create the need in our lives for a celebrity and want to become one.

When the ‘show is over’ the act, sport, fame and demand have gone, the novelty worn off, some celebrities welcome the rest and retirement, others get depressed, some take up a hobby and some get hyped on drugs.

There are those when in celebrity status believe they are above the law and some cannot cope with the fame and yet love it and try and hide away as much as possible and recharge. Fame is not all glamour, endless rehearsals, training interviews and such like and the media on their backs.

Then there are the fans who are living off of the fame of the celebrities who imagine the parties, money, travel, relationships, fine clothes, cars, private aeroplanes, yachts, meeting the royals and such like. This feeds the fans fantasy and dreams and maybe some lonely unfulfilled parts in themselves.

In both cases this can fill some deep felt need to be acknowledged and loved and the search for love and happiness in the outside world which at most can only be an imitation of an inner aspect, inner in the sense of finding it in oneself, not narcissistic, but a true in depth feeling of a sort of completeness.

 One can still enjoy performing and watching a performance but it is not contributing to the psychological, emotional and mental lack, it is an appreciation of the skill, dedication and beauty of the performer.

 Then there is the love that has no form, no idol, no tangible evidence of its existence and yet can be found in quietness, non performance and after a while in everything everywhere and in any situation. By inner I mean it is found by an inner focus, as if ones eyes were turned inwardly to view the mind in a non opinionated way, not on thoughts or mental gymnastics, fantasies, visualisations or imagery, repeating mantras and the like and just watching what arises and not trying to judge it or fathom where it came from or what it is related too.

In a way we are celebrities seeking the bliss which maybe our celebrity and if one has a modicum of this bliss we may become a performer in the ‘outside physical world’ as a celebration and expression in this form of chosen expression, just doing it for the sheer joy of it, not as a sport because we like the fitness and prove our physical prowess or singing to show what a lovely voice I have or writing and all else to prove look I have talent.

The performance does add to the bliss, the difference being I do it to express my bliss and or I do it because I  am good at it and I want to be admired.

With the bliss when the physical or for some reason one cannot continue the performances there are no regrets because one is in and still has the bliss.  There are  no withdrawal symptoms, a clean break is managed and one just spends ones time cultivating more bliss until one leaves the body for full time bliss.

There are similarities with full time employment and when one retires so to speak. Those in the bliss do not feel deprived as much as those who lived to work and those who worked to live. The job was not their idol or their celebrity and as long as they had enough to live on they were content and promotion and getting to be the foreman, charge hand or management was not important although one might attain this without the ambition.

There is no wrong or right way it is one's predilection.

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SHACK 362 HOW NOW

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HOW BIG IS SPACE

AS LONG AS A PIECE OF STRING

HOW DO YOU QUANTIFY THEM?

AS BIG AND AS LONG AS YOU WANT TO MAKE THEM

THE STRING IS OK 

BUT THE SPACE?

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SHACK 361 BIG, SMALL, ROUND, SQUARE?

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IT IS SAID WE ARE ONLY A FIGMENT OF AN 

IMAGINATION

IN A FANTASY OF THAT MIND

HOW BIG IS THE MIND?

IF ALL OF THE CONTENTS OF A MIND, DREAMS 

THOUGHTS, EXPERIENCES ARE ADDED UP 

ONE WOULD NEED A MASSIVE BRAIN TO HOUSE THEM 

IN

SO THE LIFE FORCE OF VIBRATING WAVES AND 

FREQUENCIES  MAY NOT EXIST AT ALL

WE YOU AND ALL ARE MADE OF DREAM STUFF

TELL ME WHAT IS THAT?

SHACK

A Zen master sitting on  a tree branch meditating when along came an academic who says to the master ' I understand that you say the secret of the Universe is contained in a grain of sand---How so ?'

The Zen Master replies 'honourable and dear academic how many books have you read and remember?' 

Academic 'hundreds and I remember something of nearly all of them'

Master ' in such a small head!!!'

Taken from many Zen Koans and Quotes  over the years. SHACK   

SHACK 360 WHAT/

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WHAT SHAPE AND COLOUR IS THE MIND?

EVEN A PATHOLOGISTS SCALPEL CANNOT FIND IT

IS IT THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE?

AND THEN ONE HAS TO ASK 

WHAT SUBSTANCE IS A GHOST MADE OF?

A BIT OF AN ILLUSION IF YOU ASK ME

AND CERTAINLY NOTHING DEFINITE

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SHACK 359 LIFE CARRIES ON

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I came across a scientist who said ‘we are made of atoms and those who are studying atoms then are really studying themselves’.

This means to me that what is ‘behind the atom ‘ as it were that is where atoms are derived from and from the observer effects it would seem our minds ‘interfere’  if you like or perhaps interact, collapse the wave which maybe the first steps in the process of manifestation of form, something tangible and perceived by the human senses.  In other words our minds or rather consciousness arranged by our personal thoughts interacts and interrelates because our minds and bodies are composed of the same structure that is molecules, atoms and particles, consciousness meets itself in form and also in no form. The nature of consciousness is awareness which is life and so it meets its kin at the level of atoms and solidified atoms so to speak as form. After all if the observer is an aware consciousness and collapses the wave then it has an affinity and likeness to it, both respond to thought and intention, which must be the nature of molecules, atoms and particles.

This is intelligence in action. There is a remarkable demonstration of this in a slightly different way; plants by the side of a busy dual carriageway main road started to die because of the fumes and pollution, the few that did survive had adapted to the environment and showed it in a plant clinic, when some of the plants were brought to the purer state of the clinic they died, again the survivors turned back to their former nature. It seemed some intelligence was at work here.

Rubber tyres dumped into the barrier reefs in Australia did have a disastrous effect, some years later the sea life started to grow back on the tyres.

After the atoms bombs were exploded in the Bikini Islands the local life went through horrific mutations, some years later it returned to normal, it even restored the predatory and procreative cycles.

To me this suggests there is a Universal Consciousness that is all pervading and is the informing principle behind the Cosmos. It seems that Nature can do without us and our meddling ways will not thwart it, it may delay it and humans may destroy and blow up the planet in their vain effort to own, make profit and rape nature.

Near me there is an old railway track and train yard, disused over may years, beautiful flowers, weeds, mice, birds and insects are in abundance there, nature does not need us but we need nature, this is the time to renew our partnership with her.

Scientists will be surprised when it dawns on them that the Author of the Blueprint of Life is not out there in the Universe but is indeed dormant in them and awaiting liberation by the prison door of ego.

The atom is 99.99% space and that space is where everything arises and returns to and space is consciousness, so when one looks at inner space one is looking at oneself and one’s own experience of that 99.99% is being aware of oneself as space and that space is infinite and all pervading, it is non ending and is not graspable by flesh not other senses it is only recognised in meeting itself. That .1% left over maybe the consciousness that is given as a gift by the atom that recognises the process of creation, the atom witnessing itself in action.

If one is still in doubt go put your finger under a scanning electron microscope or a piece of concrete and you will be mightily surprised of how your solid finger or concrete really looks at its building block levels. Many have been shocked when they have done----I was.

So where does one go from here?------back to meditation, getting quiet and empty, so the mind is dynamic without thought and therefore reunited in space once occupied by thought---------?

Life goes on despite human meddling.

SHACK

SHACK 358 PAIN & URGH

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Iv'e heard it said humans are addicted to pleasure

And the fear that when pleasure is denied them 

they get into pain

Pain and pleasure are opposites

and if this is case a pendulum will always oscillate

between them  

They need to be complimentary 

and how to do this 

Be in the middle so being neither of them

So one does not need to be in the 

fear of denial nor the 

addiction to pleasure

This duality is energized by the Middle Way

and so has control over them by  being neither and both.

SHACK