'Burden' Articles
Burden is the degree to which you are distracted from your own patterns, your own rhythms. Anything that doesn’t resonate with your internal sense of self will be perceived as a burden. The reason burden, and bearing it arises, is because we have come to ignore our true natures, often to the detriment of our physical and mental health.
There is a way that we can be in the world, but it begins by putting our personal presence first. Only then can we be present for others and others be fully present for us. The only good you have to offer is your own good. The only good you can really receive is your own good.
All burden is paradox. In every vision of burden, you have the secret of freedom as well. If life is burden then Atlas will inevitably weep, but if life is the place where you live, then even the biggest challenges will leave no lasting scars.
“Every burden is a blessing.” Walt Kelly
“No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.” Max Planck
Shadow Cast
Today, we are talking about a heavy topic. We are talking about burden. I will open with the question, What is burden? That which weighs heavily on our minds. The monkey on our back, at times provided to you by others. For me, it is a thing that you must face and you can do little or nothing to change it. Money is one for me. Ok. I will go ahead with that. Burden is the degree to which you are distracted from your own patterns, your own rhythms. It’s the shadow cast by your own light. Anything that doesn’t… Seek More
Being Overshadowed
Shadows are distorted by the interplay of light being reflected off of other objects. They can even be obscured by the shadow of another, thus we have the idea of being “overshadowed”. The father wanting his son to follow certain traditions simply because they are that. That is an example, yes, but why do we adopt burdens? To feel useful? We are taught to adopt them, we internalize. We want to be loved. Indeed. We have a fundamental need to be loved, but can we be loved for our burdens? We want to always be the one to help others… Seek More
Personal Presence First
Where do we find the experience of self? Personally, only within. Experience is what I see mirrored to me in others. I think in ourselves, and in our interactions with others. When we explore our inner nature, do we discover an alien being? Alien as in foreign? My point is that you find the truest connections with others when you discover a spiritual resonance. Nothing is foreign once you encounter it. This is true. Is everything in your nature actually determined by others? It seems you must/should encounter many within that resonance, and not every soul you encounter can provide all… Seek More
The Only Burden
We are multifaceted beings like little suns of life force. A light source that can cast long shadows, and our full being is like an elemental force. Can we give more than that? Can we give less? I think we are afraid to give too much to the wrong person. There is the sticking point, the concept of the wrong person. There is only one wrong person, and that person is the wrong one only because we have decided they are. Do you know who I am talking about? Our self? This is the real burden, the only burden. We have… Seek More
First and Foremost a Person
What would the world be like if there were no roles? No rich or poor? No holy or profane? Everyone living with every ugly little detail out for all to see? Burdens are lifted when all is revealed? When all is revealed then we know what we have to work with. How well do you function one handed? You would make do. And even when you have no hands, even when you have no legs, how is this? The most horrid thought many people have is being alive but totally disabled. Where does that horror come from? Trapped in a… Seek More
Life Without Burden
I live a life without burden, which doesn’t mean I am no burden to others. To offer my ugly side on the chance it may have worth, I am not adequately able to read other peoples subtle messages, those instinctive signals that make people feel so uneasy around each other. Because I cannot really see these things, my mental faculties are instead taken up with other observations. This is perhaps what allows me some novelty of thought. I see contradictions in human behavior. I see it play out over time in their world. I see how one person’s force of… Seek More
Work From Desire
You don’t have to ignore anything, quite the contrary, just choose. Have you ever really been burdened by a choice? Only because you have an idea of “should”, otherwise you work from desire. Does desire care for what you should? Only for shampoo at the drugstore. I have to get the perfect one you know. If you have to get the perfect one, then never purchase shampoo, never purchase food either, never purchase clothes, never go left or right, or simply never perfect. I find it easier to never perfect. I don’t perfect my classes. I don’t perfect my thinking.… Seek More
Trust Feeling
Control is putting the brakes on life. It has limited use. In fact, there is a simple guide for when you actually need to exert control. The same thing that makes you avoid cooking your hand on the stove, makes you avoid being locked into things that hurt you, unless you interrupt this. Common sense? Deeper than common sense. I don’t trust common sense. I trust feeling. When someone gets to ordering you about, do you analyze it intellectually or have a feeling first? Feeling. Trust those feelings, which are different than emotions. Emotional sensation is another word for it.… Seek More
