Realizing the simple
I remember having a conversation with someone in terms of realizing the simple. The conversation also dealt with money. They said to me that they want the simple to which I responded from a monetary perspective in that moment that the simple costs something but not that much! They looked at me and agreed. Yes, the simple is always here, yet because of the present systems, the simple costs something. The simple must cost something, because it is not in our present system, as the present system is built as a reflection of human beings who have lost their common sense ( which simply means to lack investigation of all things, or to continue a lack of real LOOKING- which means to be actively suppressing a natural ability to LOOK!) of which that same system moves to contain or control that lack, that imbalance ( it is BOTH a system that abuses a lack yet also controls that same consequential state of lack - as a state of considering all things) . Ironically, our present systems would not be the elephants-in-the-room dominating the landscape were they in accord with the simple!
The simple also is what happens in the moment, because the simple can be found between emotional reactions. The simple is usually that which is in plain sight, that space where one is usually calm and enjoying the moment. The simple is usually where one is more in common sense, that which is ironically no longer so common!
The simple is where one does not fear being defined as something as one is focused on the moment, realizing the small that composes the big. I mean why do we get up everyday and do those small things that lead to a bigger form that has greater stability and greater and more stable long range outcomes? We get up every day and brush our teeth to have an outcome of less consequence in terms of our teeth. Practicing our words, doing the simple, every day, leads to mastering language, something that unites all human beings. It is those small movements done consistently that build a whole that in itself builds that simple understanding that allows one to move with more ease, with more concise definition. An inner back chat of information is more of the degree of one’s separation as a reflection of one’s protection from self responsibility. In a quartet rehearsal, is one comes to a rehearsal and makes an excuse that their friend bullied them and they could not practice, the rehearsal does not happen. The lack of DOING, leads nowhere. One ends up in a wallow of self pity, based on a value judgement that is a consequence of a lack of investigation. One is practicing a lack. Sometimes, moving forward in activity, lends perspective on an inner demise opening doors and windows of insight into the greater whole. One may find, reaction to another state of ignorance, was based on a mis-take from the past that one fears being defined as “ not good enough.” This in itself is a loss of a natural ability to do the simple math of reality.
The simple has a quality of the absence of fearing to be defined by the immediate reactions around one. One is more able to see the imbalances, or the hypnotic pulls into value judgements ( energy) that through repetition have come to be believed to be a truth. To in-stead see-&-IN-PULL to the immediate living form, without believing in the moment that what is here defines who and what one is as hypnotic emotional pulls, as one sees AND allows presence to be IN-PULLED to define and investigate to then transform with calm, for a moment, to then move through placing into the greater whole the imbalanced emotional patterns or movements to then find what is more in consideration of all things to build a more stable less consequential path of least resistance. The way forward is usually of practical action as this is finding solutions and admitting to existential stances but not falling into distorting illusions or habituated “ end games” and instead realizing imbalances to take them out of the room/space. Simple. lol, this would be so much like realizing the smoke and mirrors of a valley of “ good and evil.”
The simple is to realize that one becomes what one practices in thought, word and deed. Just as a master realizes a more perfect practice through consistent effort, so does a more reactive and protective reaction build a template that comes to direct the self. Consistent practice builds things, either within living what is public notice, as the golden rule, or living a consistent practice of constant protection and defense! If one consistently practices and looks at a new subject to build a new skill, one will move through what I call the 21 day change. I lived this so many times in a discipline, I can say it works like clockwork! The entry into something new appears to be impossible and difficult as one begins to change within to learn the new “ language”/measure/geometry. It appears to be slow. The in the second set of seven days, one can move with the forms with greater momentum, thereby lending opportunity to balance and fine tune the new. By the third set of seven days, one has integrated the new movements and can begin to move with what appears to be a mastery, yet one must continue to lend focus on that newly integrated effort, to really fine tune the movements until they begin to automate, YET with presence, because one will need to cross reference these same things as new things are added. That point of automation must be realized, because if not, what one has learned can run away with one! How we learn and how we integrate new information, or deconstruct and reconstruct is known, and it is simple. The complicated is when we have not considered all things, and end up missing the simple steps and instead back track with justifications leading to behaviors of protection and defense instead of finding the simple and being in a more solution oriented, discovery-awesomeness mind set.
There must be a line in that cycle of integrating something new, itself perhaps able to do this sequence at varying speeds depending on one’s inner mastery of self and experience. There must be a changing point in that sequence of 21 days, where one steps over a line where one focuses on the new task, within the self, and expands into greater communication with that new information and the greater world around one. On one side, one is focused more within, and in the other, one steps over a line of and as a greater momentum, to begin to focus on greater variables. The greater variables fine tuning the process of self definition as “ know thyself.”
Interesting. I find as I write this that despite having lived this in moments, I still at times move into competition. At this point, knowing the disconnect as a form of distraction as comparison as a fear of loss, that being in a state of comparison as what competition is and does that has the color of mercy or self pity, a form of begging, or a form of fearing a limited morality which is subtly moving into protection and defense as believing a morality to have a greater power which is ultimately an illusion. I have to stop and breath, slow down and say no; this leads nowhere, it leads to a now and a here, which is a duality, or a state of separation that occupies attention and causes a disconnect from the simple, from the practical, as it has the color of protection and defense and a belief in a need. This I have also lived, thus to allow this, only limits a correct use of the presence of and as me that is what catches this same reaction/action within myself.
Embracing the simple, and calling things out by name, will bring forward all resistances, because this is how things are sorted out. As one begins to build momentum within this, patterns emerge and the resistances become more similar than different. One is more able to transpose information and HOLD what is more of a constant. It is so much like being steady in playing a musical instrument, which is what the human body is and does of which as humans at the moment, as language, is what must be mastered to self realize one’s place in creation as this physical and practical reality which is the means of life in expression here. This is that point of finding the eternal, that which can withstand the test of time. The contrast of chaos, as polarities of inflammatory value judgements, causes a disconnect from what is constant, that area that realizes there can be no collateral damage, as the golden rule is the measure of taking the good and ensuring no harm, meaning the excuses of accepting extremes that show harm is unacceptable, and a gift, because the extremes reveal imbalances that must be balanced in the order of maintaining life here. Living this is not a competition. Being competitive is believing in a more and a less, manifest as the savior character which is the righteousness character, which is a loss of real presence in that which is steady, which is that which is simple, which is that of being a living of common sense.
How is it that a musician can master the physical instrument to such a degree they show great subtlety with an instrument and with the geometry of the sound? Why have we not come to understand that it is the same within our physical bodies in terms of what we emit as sound as words? The extremes show the means. Mastery shows capacity, and a lack thereof shows the mis-steps. In a society that moves to justify mis-step and make it a norm, or something special, we live a scream of lack instead of a respect for mastery.
In today’s world having the means of practicing the small, and the simple, lends the ability to master the greater. Given our present system, one that moves to control information flow, means that access to the simple will cost, but not that much, because the means of mastering the simple that must cost something, will end up being nothing, because the rewards of a mastery of the small leads to the ability to sense the nuance all around us as life, as the real magic is in the doing.
Within the systems, people do not really want to cause harm, they do not really, when one-on-one want to cause harm to another except in those moments where the frustrations exist and one does not want to follow through. Then one has already gone back into the mind, and is allowing ideas, as expectations to be lost, or to be believed to be impossible ONLY and are not walking the small, getting things done with clarity taking the next step.
Instead, one is too much in a story that is not of what is here, in consideration of all things, as a inner resonant story is precedent to reality. Experiences from the past that show us to ourselves and how we have not taken the time to realize how we are informed.
Lately, I find that it is easier to realize the storm of persona. I can more sense my own posture and how that shows me to myself. I also realize how often I miss details within this, and find myself hesitating for a moment. I carry with me, a resonant morality, one of limited story, out of sequence with creation as the physical.
Taking a breath, slowing down has aided me in this. Recently, I had two specific confrontations where I was being asked many questions that were really a form of a set body of beliefs coming towards me. From practice, I could slow down and allow that “ barrage” to come towards me, moving more into listening to begin to sort out the points while also reading my own reactions within, and remembering more of the whole around me. In being the processing of this, the storm as the voice of limitation being a part of my immediate environment played out its voice, as though it was given space to view itself, overall - which so much of the time is thwarted by reactions of protection and defense. In the space of not immediately moving into resistance, the storm intensified its voice and then suddenly came to me and agreed with me! Myself, in a slight delay of processing, could also realize what had happened subsequent to my own inner processing of the orchestrated habits of belief around me.
This is similar to what is an absence of allowing another to self generate, which so often is thwarted. Limitation is also done through a lack of follow through, meaning, on individual levels, the opportunity to self generate is missing, thereby causing a practice that limits completion, of which as a movement, can become a practice that then can lead to defining someone as lacking in capacity. This is how tiny movements miss the next step, and become a habit of that which does not show who and what a person really is. Then one is caught in focusing on a self defining lack, which in itself becomes a distraction. I find using science, as the discovery of patterns, and the anecdotal stories of daily movements, can open a landscape of possibility, it is playing with dimension. It is sharing the stories of information made idol on this living earth and opening those moments of effective practice in this reality. It is bringing one into the fold of life. It is feeling the embrace of endless possibility because possibility is in the word I-(a)m- possible.
From another perspective, the same can happen on a larger scale. Yet this is also similar to that of which I speak. Within slowing down and processing what is the movement around me, or what is being expressed, within a greater whole, those two moments of which I speak, were of that lack of which I speak, coming at me, that I processed as a form, finding ways to essentially align those same small expressions/movements into a more stable ground, only to discover through that patience a moment where that lack was realized to be processing itself and then stepping forward to admit overall, that something was indeed missing in capacity within itself! It is so much like we are dealing with a swirling mass of colors, a techno colored dream coat that is that accumulated lack of processing information as it is caught in itself and yet, understands this and does seek a means of resolution.
Is there a tipping point, as essentially I was discovering? There is somewhere a gap for me within this. I have been looking at a means, a dividing line, where one remains caught in a lack on one side. This is below a means where there is not enough momentum to begin to realize greater relationships, or greater processing of interacting bodies, of expressions in a moment to see through a distraction of belief, as an inner resonant body of information so consuming of one’s attention because it is a form of inflammed belief that is experience of limitation as a lack of real follow through causing a narrow focus that then loses touch with the living reality around one. Slowing down and looking at detail also demands reference to the whole to lend greater definition. Somehow the gap is here, as one side of this line, cannot use the means on the other side! Using the means on the other side, only pulls one side off the table! What is good for the gander is not necessarily good for the goose, as they say!
The other side of that dividing line, is when enough capacity has developed within processing information, as these movements and expressions of which I speak, that one begins to see through some of the cracks of belief within and the reality without as that reality and this inner state caught in itself because it has not yet slowed down to realize itself as a form of distraction causing a limited focus on the greater whole.
Thus, it is to realize detail and to also begin to apply that with greater agency to the extent one can hear the varying parts moving as the relationships of this, into the greater whole, a movement that happens in the same manner as a musician moves to perfect that ability to perform with a group, and also realize the effects of what is generated on the audience as well. This is so much like a child learning to crawl and to walk and to talk. We are, as humans, by design, meant to in deed be this. It is natural.
One cannot see the more complex until one has mastered the basics to the extent one can process greater amounts of information AND, that what one is processing in inclusive of this reality around us. The earth is the living “ text book’ and there for there is nothing to memorize, because the real book is here. It is not in that church on the horizon of that media spin in those modern stain glass windows called the internet. Clarity means, in this context, processing what is within and without, above and below. What one is within, what one is, where one is, how one is from one’s development into the greater whole, and why. We need only look around to know why, because we are in creation, it is here, right here, as it would be in all common sense.
I see this as the same principle within learning to master an instrument, for example. We do not ONLY learn one part, we master each part to a degree and then master the moving parts working together, to then use the parts to fine tune the whole. This is both of detail and a certain movement, or momentum, as both are necessary. I suppose on another level this is what is meant by opportunity!
I could say, that in the moment, I was so busy processing that previous moment, that there was a slight delay in processing when the next moment arrived, and somehow, from practice, I caught myself! Of course, this is stating something that is obvious, yet is it? We can know something as an idea and that idea can become a distraction as an expectation in itself thereby causing a delay in processing. One’s basics must be in order, or the obvious can become a missed potential in itself !
The greater ability to be able to do this, is priceless! That which seems a matter of course, can get so jumbled that what aids in fine tuning this natural ability then becomes priceless! Is this in itself as a course of self development that which life is all about? In this day and age, the natural ability, is so assumed to be a given, and it is, yet because of the present system, what lends greater self awareness is of immense value, especially when it is in a form of self empowerment! It is to say the magic is in the doing, and what gives license to that ordinary quality, has immense value. To believe that the steps are a matter of course, in our present system, is a form of magical thinking! It is wanting things to be easy, when it is the process of discovery that is the order of the day! People pay so much to discover themselves! I say to people, because I have had this conversation, that the simple costs in this society, but overall, that which is simple does not cost that much. This, in itself, is pretty simple and in itself shows a respect for the measure of this reality out of synch with this overall. Part of standing up, is realizing the value of this. When we realize something we are willing to support that and can understand the common sense that the simple costs something, and that we by nature, will more than stand with that and support it, because supporting it is HOLDING that which is obvious it in place.
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