Hi. My name is Human, and I’m a conceptual addict.
Just now, my current addiction is the fascinating task of expressing clearly (and conceptually) the pitfalls of being swept up into the world of concepts, of ideas and beliefs, and ignoring non-conceptual reality.
Unfortunately, my ongoing exploration of these cool ideas has temporarily been interrupted by the [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Reality Intrudes Now
Posted in musings on March 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sorting it Out – Interlude
Posted in musings on March 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Giuliani walked to the doorway and hesitated before taking a step into the room. Most men were simple. They were looking for security, or power, or a feeling of usefulness or of certainty or competence. A cause to fight for, a problem to solve, a place to fit in. There were many possibilities but once [...]
Sorting it Out IV: Authority and Control
Posted in Reality, belief, love, musings, mysticism, relationship, religion, seeking, self-help, spirituality on March 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My standard disclaimer applies.
If you have no love—do what you will, go after all the gods
on earth, do all the social activities, try to reform the poor,
enter politics, write books, write poems—you are a dead
human being.
Without love, your problems will increase, multiply endlessly.
And with love, do what you will, there is no risk, there is [...]
Sorting it Out III: Authority and Believers
Posted in Reality, belief, love, musings, mysticism, relationship, religion, seeking, self-help, spirituality on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Prologue
In the beginning, we arrive on this earth newly grown, as a new plant springs from the earth, from our mother’s flesh — a unique blend of the heritage of both our mother and our father. We are small, helpless, a little bundle of need, of potential and possibility, born with [...]
Sorting it Out II: Authority, Good, and Evil
Posted in Reality, belief, love, musings, mysticism, relationship, religion, seeking, self-help, spirituality on March 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Personal Evolution
It took me many years to realize that there’s no necessary connection between truth, the Sacred, the Holy, that which is the source behind the concept called (among other things) “God,” and that I label the Mystery, and any church, dogma, doctrine, or religious teaching. Rejecting the authority or validity of [...]
Sorting it Out: Authority, Good, and Evil
Posted in Reality, belief, musings, mysticism, relationship, religion, seeking, self-help, spirituality on March 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My standard disclaimer applies.
Now I’m going to start exploring some relationships between authority, good, and evil, or my concepts of good an evil, and see where that takes me. Later, I think I’ll want to explore how all these relate to love, and maybe a few other things.
Good and Evil
Where did I get [...]
Tonight’s Exploration: Love or Cancer
Posted in Reality, belief, love, musings, mysticism, relationship, seeking, self-help, spirituality on March 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I started out tonight to explore some of the more messy connections between power, good, evil, and love, but then it struck me that it might help to first explore in a little more depth something my niece and dear friend Sarah and I were discussing on a walk by the Yakima river last weekend.
In [...]
Winding down …
Posted in Reality, love, musings, relationship, self-help on March 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Love and life are better lived than written about, tho I love doing both. Today was a day for just living. Mary and I went out for lunch after she finished her morning job and talked and played Sudoku and stuffed ourselves comfortably full & came home and crawled in bed for a [...]
Finding Love Within
Posted in Reality, belief, love, musings, mysticism, relationship, self-help, spirituality on March 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Continuing from last posting … when I throw out the things in my own direct experience that are sometimes mistaken for love but are not love, I throw out the idea of love as a business deal, as a way of getting something I want and think will make me feel good, as an antidote [...]
Exploring Without Maps
Posted in Reality, belief, love, musings, relationship, seeking, self-help, spirituality on March 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So if no one can lead you to truth, the real, the sacred, the Mystery with any words, symbols, or other communication, then why did Krishnamurti (and other thinkers with similar views) spend so much time writing and speaking words about his take on reality, truth, the sacred? Wasn’t he just wasting his & [...]
