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Passion and Choice
The monk is passionate, passionate in ascetic seeking. The zealot is also passionate, passionate in persecution. Some believe the monk is trained to forget his physical humanity, and to focus on the mind and that is not passion but doctrine. I would disagree. There are surfaces and there are depths. Monks live in their own “chosen” world…
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Choice Beyond Thinking
Choice seems so readily obvious. People claim to make choices, and then complain about the consequences of those choices. We make choices every day if only minor ones, but do people really choose? Do they take the action that choice supposedly is? In my experience people tend to choose by habit not by thought, so…
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Depression and Choice
Someone who is quite depressed is so because of how he is ‘thinking’ about the situation. He is in that. He is causing his distress and it is not the situation itself. What could be said further is to ask him how he feels when he isn’t thinking about what has him depressed. Unless his…
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Choice in Events
If we must attribute power to events and the mechanics of life, then this suggests it is then a rule, does it not? If it’s not a rule then maybe the mechanics as we see them aren’t seen clearly? If events have power, they arise from cause and effect. Look over any community and there…
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Decision and Choice
People speak of good choices and bad choices, and do everyone a disservice by doing so. There are only wise choices and unwise choices in my experience. Good can arise from an unwise choice anyway, and harm can arise from a wise choice. When guided by that inner spirit, it’s a certainty. If that inner…
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Inquiring into Choice
I feel like I never learn from unwise choices, and they keep repeating. What am I doing wrong? When a choice repeats, it isn’t from a failing on your part. You merely misunderstand the nature of the choice. You may perceive it as what it presents itself to you, but there can be an internal side you…
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It Is Your Choice
For various reasons, we accept that we “must” from society, but we do not “have” to do anything except breathe and eat? Actually, yes we do. You won’t get to eat anything if you don’t work, or break the law. Somebody owns anything and everything you might want. It is your choice, but should you…
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Choice In Conflict
Let’s get a bit wild. Let’s say you have a haunting. How many of you follow this research? Ghost hunters anybody? I’m not a hunter, but I believe in them and I like shows about haunting though I sometimes question the accuracy. The accuracy is specious, but I’m just checking if we have a perceptual…
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Choice Of Focus
I will make a challenging statement, and my intention is not to offend. You don’t see what is there, no one does. Whenever you see anything, you see only the part of you that is there. The quality of your attention or judgement. Inside is a reflection of the outside? Yes, exactly. I think that’s…
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Wiser Choice
I used to work with a woman. She talked about going to discos and not wanting to get too close to anyone, just have fun. I dismissed her as a party girl and didn’t have much to do with her, and then one day she told me that she had been engaged and her fiancé…
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Individual Choice
Don’t empathy and compassion often lead you to do things for others that hurt yourself? True compassion will allow for forbearance. True compassion will lead to the realization that the worlds burdens are not your personal burdens, and your values are not the world’s solution. The idea that the world needs saving, and the individual…
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Tribes Of Choice
There is an idea behind surrealism. That you can put two unrelated images together and the mind will make sense of them. It’s true, and we have. We have in today’s culture accepted something even more toxic than a surrealist model of reality. We have instead accepted sweeping generalities that get synthesized into a subjective…
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All About Choice
On one hand is the question of how to best help others understand the changes that are at hand. But on the other hand, those who are capable of knowing and understanding already do to a great extent. They only need to know that they are not alone and not imagining it. Thus I referred…
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Second Delusion Of Choice
The idea that our consciousness works on a dynamic of seeking pleasure and avoiding pain is the second delusion. People believe that life is about choices, and although this makes thinking easier, it quickly becomes an obsession to the point that they think life or death is a choice. The more choices we have, the…
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Choice Center
I find panic comes when I can’t decide which one to follow within me, heart or gut. That’s the problem for everyone. This is why the third chakra is so often out of balance, and really this happens because people see the conflict. So they create the conflict in their thought, model it very clearly,…
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Choice And Free Will
What is it to make a choice when all choices are dictated by the spirit of the world? Harmony or disharmony. Playing an instrument well or poorly comes to mind. And that is part of the choice making process, yes. Choice and free will are acoustics. You can sing of your free will, and the…
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Choice Making
People in relationships… Half are in the heart camp of everything is wonderful. Half are in the gut camp of just the facts. Very few are balanced in a relationship, especially a new one. Very true. There are a few who make it to very mature relationships who are balanced. The balance is the secret…
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Choice Making Center
The events that lead you to choose chocolate chip over peanut butter cookies are not confined to that. Something as simple as your preferred choice of cake or pie is a manifestation of how resources both grow and are consumed. Your choice is not disconnected. This is also part of why you have the innate…