Understanding is built, knocked down and rebuilt upon experiences.
With focus on sensitivity, we may come to embody functional skills.
These skills with the hard won wisdom of how to apply them gracefully,
enable us to become valued members of our species.
Abundance is available to the degree to which we understand our habitat.
Experience engages ones nervous system and other tissues directly.
In the absence of sense, there can be no understanding,
There can be no skills,
there can be no inherent value
This leaves us, insecure, un-validated.
This leaves us ripe for belief.
Where Understanding offers the possibility of response to reality - responsibility
Belief offers only, reactivity, up-set and more insecurity.
The cure for fear, is stepping out of time.
Ceasing to compare future to past or fantasy.
Completely accepting what is actually present,
without any personal perspective about that.
Fully sensitive to it, yet equanimous about it.
The experience of full unconditional aliveness,
Is the gift of acceptance, there is zero morality in this.
How could there be?
The possibility of compassion is born of appreciation.
Appreciation is possible with acceptance, (the opposite of judgement).
Direct sensitivity is possible with focus
Focus is possible when we come out of our memories, our strategies, our endless "neediness" for conditions to be met.
Without understanding their is only belief.
Belief may use stories to offer temporary relief to fear, doubt, insecurity of uncertainty.
With Belief, there can only be conflict, as it will never match reality, can never update to it, or remain present to it.
Belief is at war with everything that does not align to it.
Either way we will pass when our time is over,
understanding can bring joy and appreciation
of the life we all have remaining.
To choose the path of understanding is to recognise "upset"for what it is.
Upset is often when we are using opinion for personal advantage,
then feeling insecure when challenged.
It is normal to use belief and memory to fill gaps in our understanding.
There will always be gaps in our understanding.
Releasing belief is a daily task, like burying kitchen waste.
Releasing upset, takes time proportional to our ability to let go,
equal to our capacity to own our pain.
To recognise that we are all in this together,
that no single individual or guru,
can experience everything all at once,
is to know both compassion,
and appreciation of other perspectives.
Not so much temporary beliefs, but enduring, tested and unfolding talents.
particularly, those, who share openly,
without personal agenda, despite insecurity
those who give, without thought of return.
out of appreciation of flow
ancient, yet always fresh,
ever new
To all my teachers, which is everyone
Thank you, I hope you also are
enjoying the ride of our lives.
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Todays blog was a stand alone, but if this resonates with you and you would like to know how I arrived in this place, perhaps you may enjoy the series below, if not, thats also totally cool, thanks for stopping by.
Wisdom as Action Series
Act 1 - Do you remember?
Act 2 - What is Love?
Act 3 - Feeling Swell
Act 4 - Bound to be Free
Act 5 - Trust Issues
Act 6 - Knowledge
Act 7 - All you Desire
Act 8 - Virtue Reality
Act 9 - @tension
Act 10 - Rote learning vs Understanding
Act 11- Morality Paradox
Act 12- Body Language
Act 13 - Adaptability pt1 - survival
Adaptability pt2- attunement
Adaptability pt3 - focus
Adaptability pt4 - nutrition
Adaptability pt5- sex and intimacy
Adaptability pt6 - shelter
Adaptability pt7 - beauty