Reality (4)

 From Robert Pirsig, ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE .

                                               "The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans .   The present is our only reality .   The tree that you are aware of intellectually, because of that small time lag, is always in the past and therefore is always unreal .   Any intellectually conceived object is always in the past and therefore unreal .  Reality is always the moment of vision BEFORE the intellectualization takes place .   THERE IS NO OTHER REALITY .   This preintellectual  reality is what Phaedrus felt he had properly identified as Quality .   Since all intellectually identifiable things MUST emerge FROM this preintellectual reality, Quality is the parent, the source of all subjects and objects . "   

                "Phenomena, themselves ARE the Absolute"  where Absolute is another word for Reality, this from "The 6 Insights of Mahayana Buddhism" .  

                  You can see it rite ?

                                                               Tare Forward and Keep the Faith

Reality (3) The Movie

 Ken Kesey / Tom Wolfe

                                           "A person as all sorts of lags built into him .   One, the most basic, is the sensory lag, the lag between the time your sense receive something and you are able to react .   ONE THIRTYETH 1/30 of a second is the time it takes, if you're the most alert person alive, and most people are a lot slower than that .   We are, all of us, doomed to spend our lives watching a movie of our lives---we are always acting on what has just finished happening .   It happened at least 1/30 of a second ago .   We think we are in the present but we're not .   The present we know is only a movie of the past, and we will really never be able to control the present through ordinary means .   That lag has to be overcome some other way, through some kind of total breakthrough .

                  "There are all sorts of lags that go along with it .   There are historical and social lags, where people are living by what their ancestors or somebody else perceived, and they may be 25 or 50 years (or centuries) behind, and nobody can be creative without overcoming those lags first of all .   A person can overcome that much through intellect or theory or study of history and so forth and get pretty much into the present that way but he's still going to be up against one of the worst lags of all, the psychological .   Your emotions remain behind because of training, education, the way you were brought up, blocks, hang-ups, and stuff likethat, and as a result your mind wants to go one way and your emotions don't."  

Reality (2)

 From THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION by Aldous Huxley .

       Huxley quotes Dr. C.D. Broad :

                              "...the function of the brain, nervous system and sense organs is in the main eliminative and not productive .   Each person is at each moment capable of remembering and perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe .   The function of the brain and nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and irrelevant knowledge by shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive or remember at any moment, and leaving only that very small and special selection which is likely to be practical or useful ."

                              "To make biological survival possible, the Mind, has to be funneled through the reducing value of the brain and nervous system ."

                                   "...likely to be PRACTICAL..."   Remember this please .

Reality (1)

                                                           My own Study of Reality is ongoing .   The blogs that follow are passages that I found revealing and therefore worthy of our Consideration .  I will make no comment on these passages, at least, not yet,,, I will wait until my Gentle Readers have assimilated them .   

       Dr. C.G. Jung quotes Richard Wilhelm the Translator of the I CHING from Chinese to German .

                                   "Reality", says Richard Wilhelm, "is conceptually knowable because, according to the Chinese view, there is in all thing a latent rationality .   This is the basic idea underlying meaningful coincidence, [Synchronicity] ;  it is possible because both sides have the same meaning .  Where meaning prevails, order results . 

     Dr. Jung submits this :   For the Unconscious psyche space and time seem to be relative ; that is to say, knowledge finds itself in a space-time continuum in which space is no longer space, nor time time .  If, therefore, the Unconscious should develop or maintain a potential in the direction of CONSCIOUSNESS, it is then possible for parallel to be perceived of 'known' ."

                            I ask my Readers to hold on to "Continuum" because "IT" is one of the Things that Sword'sMen Protect, via the Teachings of the Tengu Masters .

                               

Harmony

                                                           Please forgive me .  I do not have the strength to continue .   Know this :   there are MILLIONS of Realities, each one of us actually creates a Reality that best suits our psychological 'Condition' :  Reality, then, is dependent on AGREED Conditions, where Truth is accepted as "The Majority Perception", something that Kant spells out in his CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON .  

                           Trump lives in HIS Reality, while the rest of us Suffer in Ours .   The DEAL is to bring everyone's individual Realities into Harmony ,  whereby a United Reality affords advance into Peace that benefits EVERYONE .

                     

                                                                       Tare Forward and Keep the Faith 

Magic and Mystery in Wakefield, Rhode Island

                                                           I'm getting a late start this morning due to Illness .   I awoke at midnight because I  could barely breathe with any comfort .   My head was a watermelon filled with watery junk and a 400 pound baby hippo had nestled on my chest .   I have just returned from the pharmacy with Coricidin HBP a capsule that will coax the baby Hippo off my chest and help drain my brain .   Weirdly, there's nothing rwong* with my Body ~~~~~~ .

                               I had planned a quiet delivery of something I've been working on for several weeks :  Spiritual Pragmatism, roughly defined as a Spirituality based on PRAGMATISM {{ duuuh }} and that Pragmatism is Buddhism and specifically ZEN Buddhism, because Zen is a Path that demands strict adherence to  >REALITY< .   Some of you may ask, "What's so damn SPIRITUAL about Reality ?" and it's a GREAT Question .   Those like me, those of my "ilk",,, can see "IT" straightaway :  Reality, some would argue,, is DEVOID of Spirituality, I contend the Opposite, that Reality is not only Spiritual but MYSTICAL as well .   

                                Look at this :   I press a key and a letter appears on this screen .  I mean, how is That NOT a fucking MIRACLE ?   I know we can use Science to explain "IT" but for most of us jus' reg'lar folk, that "IT" is nothing short of fucking MAGIC, since Magic can explain just about EVERYTHING in just ONE Word .    

                                Check "IT" out :   when we agree that >Birth< is a "Miracle" then EVERYTHING-ELSE is Miraculous as well .  Life is a MIRACLE !!!   The Logic is irrefutable .

                                 Reality, then, is a MIRACLE !

Offal-icians

 BUMMER ALERT

                                                          I always thought I would write a book on Manhood describing the Journey from Childhood to Manhood as a Reference Guide and Manual .   {{MANual}}} .  When the time came, when I had the time and LUXURY of workless Freedom, I no longer felt compelled nor Obligated  because what I thought I had appeared as irrelevant .   The World had changed, check that, my World had changed to such a degree that expression of yesteryear problems and how they were surmounted presented as ridiculous .   Who wants to know what happened in the Past (?), meaning, those Problems no longer even seemed to exist .

                              I am old now .   I have become aware of Young Male Problems that are the result of a Role Model Shortage, that is, young "men" do not have Role Models that reinforce TRUE Manhood .   Present Day Males have looked to >>>TRUMP<<< as a Role Model, even Joe Rogan, a kid I like despite his personal Politics .  Look  at what has transpired :   So-called "Men" who are Elected Officials {{offal-icians}}  have demonstrated time and again that they are, IN FACT,  NOT   True Men AT ALL, but rather BOYS whose FEARS have gone un-addressed and have resulted in the preference toward COWARD-SHIP* rather than BRAVERY .   They have validated each other's FEARS and defend their Cowardice as Protecting themselves and their families at the expense of those that voted for them with the Expectation that they would SERVE them with Valor, Virtue and Distinction .