I love it, on so many levels. As a meditation, this is a deadly insight into the subjective nature of mind. Truth moves.
If you are currently taking drugs, then this statement, “truth, is whatever works best” is simple, straight-forward and correct on a daily basis.
If you are currently giving drugs up and are caught in the ambivalence of relapse, then “truth, is whatever works best” is the way your mind is oscillating between behaviour’s. An insight into the nature of your “brightness self” in stark, unpleasant contrast to your “darkness self” is possible. Truth is more than one “thing” at the same time.
If you are living free of drugs and reading this, then “truth, is whatever works best” becomes a meditational medium by which transformational intelligence can be experienced.
A thousand and one ways do I love the Buddha. But I am not a Buddhist.
There is no other moment to it. If in doubt ask Einstein.
Only one moment exists. This moment.
All else is just a projection of the mind.
Therefore tommorrow never comes, because it does not belong to reality. Only today is coming. And today keeps on coming. Just can’t seem to stop those today’s coming. For example I am writing this to you today. You may well read it tomorrow. But I will never know, because I am most truthfully living today.
Tommoz is our dream. And we need our dreams because we are not rooted, partially or otherwise, in real reality. Why, when reality is available, do we dream of tommoz’s? If we cannot not be here, then dreams help us be there. Because we “have to be somewhere”. It is like saying, “I am not be here, but I am going to be there”, and this helps me to rest and relax. With this loop rolling, I now find a future is needed. Tomorrow, I love you tomorrow.
Trees don’t dream
They don’t need too
They are now
Fulfilled
They are singing now
Not tomorrow
Except for human kind, nobody else is preparing for tomorrow. Who else would care for it? But we do. A beautiful dream for the future is needed because we do not live primarily in the now. And then of course there are drugs and alcohol. The corrupt connector’s that let us know a “now” is available. God bless drugs and peace be upon them.
The mores desires and wants we acquire and accumulate, the more tomorrow’s will be needed to see them fulfilled. Many desires, many tomorrows. The more ambitions we have, the more future will be required.
Why? Really you just can’t live in tomorrow. It is a dream and we go on giving our energy to the dream. Alternately we could live today and the tomorrow will take care of itself. Which is easy for tomorrow to do, as it does not really exist anywhere except in our imaginations, collective or otherwise. Living today implies that none of us need ever worry about tomorrow, ever again.
For the basic of human needs, this day has more than enough. All life is now.
Which is where Jacques Fresco, today’s awesome Earthling fits in. Basic human needs do not need tomorrows. They are always taken care of today, because they have to be. Air, food, shelter. There would be nothing of poverty in this world, if humankind remained true to needs. Under this situation, everyone would have more than enough. The Earth has plenty. The sky is not poor. The rivers are flowing and rich. The oceans are vast. Life is abundant with tremendous adventures and treasures. Not a single tree remains thirsty. Everything about us is more than what is needed. Life is affluent. Possibly even luxurious, as long as you stick to needs.
And then there is desire…
Please enjoy the video material you will find via the link to this wonderful man and his articulated desires for a better tomorrow, today. This fellow is the real deal.
When your mind, or anybody else’s mind dictates the terms of life, it comes in three flavours.
Mad, bad or sad. Any combination is likely, and all three at the same time is possible.
People who have a life-long experience of contentment and happiness have managed to balance their “mind” with a separate (but connected) sense of “essential self”.
The only way this can be achieved, in the long term, is via the medium or technique of meditation. And meditation, it may surprise you to know, comes in limitless forms. One form of meditation you may be familiar with is drug and alcohol use. Perhaps you are more skillful in the area of meditation than you currently give give yourself credit for?
The mind is a “bad” master, but a “good” servant. Much like electricity. Which, incidentally is currently powering your neural net and gifting you the ability to read this. How wonderful.
Follow the spider in “web weaving 101”. Whilst watching contemplate the following;
Continuation
Repetition
Cycles
Long term successful drug repair and recovery is obtained simply through dogged determination and cycles of repetitive meaningful behaviour. Exactly like the spider, constructing a web of limitless functionality.
Through this simple principle you may design or manipulate your thinking to construct a life you would prefer to lead. Know that it is the choices we make that construct our lives, choices over the passing of of time create cycles and all is lending itself to your personal evolution. This is how transformational intelligence works. Spider is natures best weaver of thread, learn from spider and you may become the best creator of your life.
Drug useage is an excellent barometer for observing levels of social distress. The more out of balance and socially distressed the community, the higher the rates of drug use reported. From Ice Age hunter/killer, game playing opportunists to the post modern stress disorder soaked cities we are now living in. It has been a big cycle.
The following presentation is one of the best of its kind I have watched. The evolution of our species in the context of all life on a shared planet. If you have ever felt like blaming society, you are right. Burdened by it, we are. Documentary’s like this one show perhaps where to more correctly attune ones imagination, if we are to “survive progress”. Humanity can be seen as a species reflective of the evolutionary nature of a phenomena known as transformational intelligence. Nature is taking a monumental chance on making apes smarter. Perhaps we can do better by Mother.
From a personal perspective it stands to reason that the more you know about about what you are and where you are, the less ignorance you will be operating with. Think Neo in the Matrix movies. And ironically ignorance is one of the easiest things in the world to fix. Get connected, become even more aware and learn (or un-learn if you prefer).
“Documenting the complex relationship between Humans and Psycho-actives” is the mission statement for the Vaults of Erowid, a most trusted and well utilised resource. Highly recommended.
