Annata is that which is beyond name and form, or conceptualism , beyond thinking, unfathomable and unutterable…
Where matter exists change is constant. There is only lasting resolution in the unchainable, annitcha . The eternal irresolvable insoluble incongruous cosmic amalgamation
(where there is no time for change) is the phenomenal predicament of perpetual change.
A fundamental principle of Huna is Aloha, which partially means to hear what is not said, to see what cannot be seen and to *know the unknowable.
*Once awareness is wise to the conscious mind and the subconscious has been positively reprogrammed, attention and concentration bring us into subsuperconscious states. We begin to breathe regularly and diaphragmatically (balanced and even.) We become aware of only one thing at a time in the physical world, allowing one thing to attract our attention, rather than continuing to ramify. This practice begins to weave awareness into subsuperconscious, perceptive states. ☯
As Arjuna said to Krishna:
“The mind is restless, turbulent, powerful and obstinate. I deem it as difficult to control as the wind.”
*“I no longer have patience for certain things, not because I’ve become arrogant, but simply because I reached a point in my life where I do not want to waste more time with what displeases me or hurts me. I have no patience for cynicism, excessive criticism and demands of any nature. I lost the will to please those who do not like me, to love those who do not love me and to smile at those who do not want to smile at me. I no longer spend a single minute on those who lie or want to manipulate. I decided not to coexist anymore with pretense, hypocrisy, dishonesty and cheap praise. I do not tolerate selective erudition nor academic arrogance. I do not adjust either to popular gossiping. I hate conflict and comparisons. I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities. In friendship I dislike the lack of loyalty and betrayal. I do not get along with those who do not know how to give a compliment or a word of encouragement. Exaggerations bore me and I have difficulty accepting those who do not like animals. And on top of everything I have no patience for anyone who does not deserve my patience.”
Upon death, I suppose the quest for re-entry into a more desirable lifetime ultimately is beyond our control . We may however quite possibly exert some influence in this destination based upon our behavior in this present lifetime.
Three Kinds Of Karma
Brilliantly incapable of average comprehension is the idiot savant. The complex mind has many layers, and it requires studious introspection and analysis to recognize when these disparate units and partial selves are functioning correctly or are demanding specialized attention. Even a complete simpleton possesses layer upon layer of compartmentalized sectors, vying for energies in the psycho dynamic scheme of things.©
The Hindu concept of Gunas is instrumental to this understanding.
I believe the soul never dies (purusha) it is persistent, all pervading and complete in and of itself; aksara, “imperishable, indestructible, fixed, immutable” The prakriti is the physical aspect of matter, and that is what differentiates souls from mere bodily containers of spirit. We are all a separated and simultaneously a singular piece of the great soul, the atman. Our individual karmas are the reason we are here. It is the sole catalyst that separates and differentiates us one from another. It is also Maya. It is only entirely known to the one eternal absolute soul, God Brahman. ©
John 13:34-35“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
Maya is the false perception and illusion that matter is not changeless and is not subject to corruption, decay and transmogrification. Christ having such knowledge said:
“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt and where thieves break through and steal.” Matthew 6:19
*Reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one”
Albert Einstein
Thank God for the mute button.
“Tree, Oh tree, why won’t you speak to me?” ‘Because, you speak enough for three’.
“The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.”Plato
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov
The mind can be likened to a trap for consciousness, a labyrinth, or a prison. It is not that you are in prison, you are the prison. The prison is an illusion. If you are identified with an illusory self, then you are asleep. Once you are aware of the prison, and you fight to get out of the illusion then you are treating the illusion as if it is real then you remain asleep. The dream becomes a nightmare. You’ll be chasing and running from shadows forever. Samadhi is the awakening from the dream of the separate self or the ego construct. Samadhi is the awakening from the prison called me. You can never actually be free because wherever you go your prison is there. Awakening is not about eliminating the mind or the matrix. On the contrary when you are not identified with it then you can experience the play of life more fully, enjoying the show as it is without cravings or fear. The divine game of lila, the game of playing in duality.
Human consciousness is a continuum, on one extreme, humans identify with material self, on the other extreme is samadhi, the cessation itself. Every step we take on the continuum toward samadhi, brings less suffering. Less suffering does not mean life is free from pain. Samadhi is beyond the duality of pain and pleasure. It means there is less mind and less self creating resistance to whatever is to unfold. Non resistance is what creates suffering.©
Rollo May, Man’s Search for Himself
“Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude, and even at times are very frightened at the prospect of being alone. Many people suffer from “the fear of finding oneself alone,” remarks André Gide, “and so they don’t find themselves at all.”
You know how sometimes at night you see in windows the glowing blue hue of people watching televisions? If you could see love there would be a similar brilliance glowing in homes where love prevails; an incandescence of full life force.©
Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others. Past and present. And by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future. Cloud Atlas
“Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be. ” Bhagavad-gītā
“Aloha” is the essence of relationships in which each person is important to every other person for collective existence.
Somewhere your own next incarnation exists and is waiting to be happily dissolved by your actions and efforts in this timeline.©
*Gita of Nirmāṇakāya/Bodhisatt
Hermes Trismegistos is made to say: “To speak of God is impossible. For corporeal cannot express the incorporeal . . . That which has not any body nor appearance, nor form, nor matter, cannot be apprehended by sense. I understand, Tatios, I understand, that which it is impossible to define—that is God”.
A grandfather recites a plight to his grandson:
Grandfather: I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. Grandson: Which wolf will win the fight in your heart, Grandfather?
Grandfather: The one that I feed.
“Help me find compassion without empathy overwhelming me…”
Native American Prayer
Oh I consider much of dreams to be more a mammalian brain function as opposed to some mystical oracle of auguries. It’s a crap shoot so to speak. However if a genuinely conscientious person continues denying a problem, it will surface in dreams. In that (pushing into consciousness) the analog becomes the digital; the brain becomes the mind, the repressed becomes known, and a dynamism of truth (that which is repressed) demands that it show itself. © kwr
The human brain is a kludge of different operating systems: the ancient reptilian brain (motor functions, fight-or-flight instincts), the limbic or mammalian brain (emotions) and the more recently evolved neocortex (rationality). Religion irritates the rational brain because it trades in magical thinking and no proof, but it nourishes the emotional brain because it calms fears, answers to yearnings and strengthens feelings of loyalty. Stephen T. Asma© NYT
I surmise that we, throughout the day, perceive far more than we can comprehend and logically comfortably assimilate, so the brain requires some time to pull together the unfathomable quagmire of a loosely bound myriad of images and ideas. Thus, this is why sleep and dreaming is essential. This phantasmagoria seemingly becomes a kaleidoscopic mush which nevertheless must be somehow managed, and somehow miraculously transcribed by a finite mind.
Our computer like mind requires time to acquire ample disk space for the brain. Our brain (not mind) is capable of retaining great detail in each day of observations, so much so that much, if not most, must be filtered (collated) in order to maintain an equilibrium. Dreaming is partially a mechanical dynamism and function of thought (mind) symbiosis. ©kwr
An abstruse amorphous algorithmic ad hominem of a priori antinomies, and smarmy snark. (an aside)
Do not confuse verbal dexterity for moral superiority.
A person can be highly intelligent, but if they forgo being delicate with ordinary people, they’ve upended their intellect. Meaning, not to speak over their heads.
http://hellopoetry.com/poem/359151/rush-et-al/
On Sigmund Freud:
Freud’s compartmentalizing of the psyche actually became a roadmap to honesty and self-understanding. The psychodynamics of repression, oppression, denial, and other clever machinations of the mind applied to avoid some pressing matter is the stuff of neurosis, some psychosis and the co-morbidity of complexes. The Oedipal state applies to boys and girls. Jung’s archetypes and shadows (animus/anima) are examples of conceptual awareness that can bury a healthy mind in confabulations that apply reaction formations and defense mechanisms. These shields and rogue thoughts are the mainstay characteristics of personality disorders.
Sigmund Freud is certainly a genius. I suppose his relevance is dependent upon one’s values and receptivity for logic. Any self examining analyst endeavors after that which is inscrutable, mysterious and layered in guile and for neutralizing inanition. “The highest measure of his meaning may derive from the echoes of his voice in artistic work.” That statement is profound and astute. Freudian psychoanalysis is a foundation for many “artistic works” that require a clear understanding of the minds’ convoluted schemes that squirm between instinct and intellect.
*Wake up and face the animal in you
the frightened lizard that wants to win you,
that wants the madness to continue
screwed into every sinew”…
“Super-ego,” a cold, censorious spoilsport whose favorite phrase is “Thou shalt not.” For some people, whose spontaneous awareness is strangled in a network of inhibitions, prohibitions, guilts, fears, repressions and other unlovely products of a puritanical conscience, the weakening of the super-ego generates a certain Dionysian ecstasy, a fuller, richer sense of being, a liberation.
Jung writes:
Neurosis is an inner cleavage — the state of being at war with oneself. Everything that accentuates this cleavage makes the patient worse, and everything that mitigates it tends to heal him. What drives people to war with themselves is the suspicion or the knowledge that they consist of two persons in opposition to one another. The conflict may be between the sensual and the spiritual man, or between the ego and the shadow. It is what Faust means when he says: “Two souls, alas, dwell in my breast apart.” A neurosis is a splitting of personality.
His personal sense of identification is not bound up in gender, race, body, status, income, ideology… or ego construct…
A brahmachari is a celibate student, often under simple vows. Some titles have feminine equivalents, such as sadhvi, yogini and brahmacharini. The Vedas explain, “The brahmachari moves, strengthening both the worlds. In him the devas meet in concord; he upholds earth and heaven.”
Anata- that which is beyond name and form, beyond thinking.
(in TheravadaBuddhism) the belief that since all things are constantly changing, there can be no such thing as a permanent, unchangingself: one of the three basic characteristics of existence
Hell is a state in which your whole life is concentrated on your perceived agony.
http://hellopoetry.com/poem/387855/something-for-everyone/
Unmitigated honesty is the best writing tool by which to assure utmost authenticity.
On a raft of obscure and recondite verbiage which stubs the rigidity of the ordinary toe, offends the things they hold most dear, and deploring the banal and mundane average usage which is a literary artisan’s foe.
A lunatic is entitled to his temper, but artistic temperament is often a self declared license for misbehavior among the sneering cynical maladroit of the hoi polloi and its masses of averageness…
*”You’re obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack of all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That’s the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.”
Octave Mirbeau*
I posit that suspected victimization is often used to limit one’s abilities (defense mechanism) by scapegoating and blame-saying to remain in a fixed state. A mediocre homeo stasis of intransigence based on the extreme need for a constant comfort.
*The crimes of others you deplore, but of yourself you don’t keep score. *Todd Rundgren
The attempted use of reasoning to define and conceptualize something beyond the comprehension of all minds combined is an exercise in futility. The dogmas and doctrines and creeds come into play, creeping little labels of ownership and authorization that turn the one against the other. Each warring and quibbling and demanding some entitlement of exclusivity, some divine sense of holy entitlement, propriety and territoriality. ©kwr
“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him” – Voltaire
Virtual Tour of the Vatican
Astronomy 101:
I succumbed into a stupor of inconsolable incredulity upon discovery of black holes. I was never a really stable person in the first place, but that was sufficient to send me off into an abyss of imagination similar to that of a autistic child dumbstruck from beholding and relishing the pure intricacy of things. My professor waved his hand in front of my face as one would do to ascertain if someone had vision. I was out to lunch before the whole class.
A word processor won’t make you a writer. A calculator won’t make you a mathematician. A stage and a microphone won’t make you profound, eloquent, articulate, a thespian, or talented..
Some people are so invested in their hate and fear that peace is the most threatening thing they can imagine. They have become accustomed to conflict as stimulus, as a homeostasis.
http://hellopoetry.com/poem/600990/destination-anehodnia/
anhedonia |ˌanhēˈdōnēə, -hi-|
noun, Psychiatry
inability to feel pleasure.
DERIVATIVES
anhedonic |-ˈdänik| adjective
ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from French anhédonie, from Greek an- ‘without’ + hēdonē ‘pleasure.’
For many hippies there was the humane conclusion that blindly seeking financial security at the cost of the soul, (superficial pretended happiness and phony ethics) was a dead end unfulfilling lifestyle.
The quest through drugs was mostly to find alternatives to alcohol, tobacco and other socially acceptable but destructive substances. I rarely use metaphors, but one man’s meat is another man’s poison.
Alcohol is difficult to manage for neophytes.
Generally if you weren’t dedicated to working, paying taxes and being a “contributing member of society” you risk being a cast out. The American constitution provides a person’s individual right to pursue happiness, it doesn’t explicitly define the course one undertakes to achieve said happiness. Originally (for hippies) it was all about love and peace, destructive drugs then entered the scene. Just prior to this time, I believe it was considered effeminate or sissified for a man to talk about love (outside the church). The hippies were unafraid and unashamed of love.
http://hellopoetry.com/-sobroquet/
Poets make lousy friends because eventually they’ll skewer you with their poison pen; their insulting writ of relentless invective and opprobrious apoplectic venom. The naked foist of un-allayed aggression as art-form whereby the vitriol of familiarity slices like a knife. The very nature of chumminess turns adversarial. A quirk, an idiosyncrasy, a malevolent adherence so committed to unreduced truth as to be a fist to the face, a shocking starkness of incivility justified by a requisite expedience hastened by the anxious need to blow you off forthwith. A lunatic is entitled to his artistic temperament, an intellectual his space.
I don’t want knowledge, I want certainty
I‘m as constant as a star, constantly in the darkness
get back to me when you can explain black holes without swallowing hard
God’s sewer system
transmogrification
nothing entirely disappears, it merely changes shape
dissoluble
we never really die
“The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change -” Heraclitus
I regard all life as phenomena that is beyond exact description or definition. Therefore you have mystics philosophers, oracles and religions. Most people are simpletons with enough curiosity to know that life is devoid of any entire elucidation, and religion makes things tidy, knowable and then forgettable. The Bible probably has as much bullshit as beauty, and that sounds like life in general. Nihilism isn’t defeat as much as it is reconciliation with the absence of continuity.
*This is an ancient stratagem and many have used it: The way of the monk, the way of the hermit or the recluse is the way of one who tries to obtain victory by avoiding the battle. He makes a fortified position in a remote place and hopes that the enemy will not find him. There were days when men and women in thousands flocked to the desert, lived in caves, remote hermitages, perched like storks on the tops of tall columns. Does such a retreat ensure victory? Not necessarily. It simplifies the struggle but the hermit, too, has his problems. There are devils in the desert, as St. Anthony discovered. Besides, as a permanent way of life, it is sterile. A year’s retreat into the desert may be profitable but a lifetime in the wilderness — that is another matter. A man owes something to the society that produced him even though he may dislike that society and reject its values.
You are the descendant of millions of years of yearning. Defining the inexplicable is impossible. Language does breakdown when broaching the predicament of phenomena, something for which language is not and was not ever intended. Ensnared by the necessity for empirical results; reliable duplication, crucibles of criterion that result in replication, necessitated by a reductionist world, whereby only ‘facts’ have validity and the separation from the spirit world creates another chasm.
“When you find someone who is industrious, studious, compassionate, loved by friends, and neighbors, tolerant in religious views, and who can point out to you the magnificence and efficacy of God in the simplest of things, you have found a mystic.” “With these qualities, whether one is attired in sacerdotal robe or in the overalls of a mechanic, one is none the less a mystic.” ~ Ralph M. Lewis
The mind can be likened to a trap for consciousness, a labyrinth, or a prison. It is not that you are in prison, you are the prison. The prison is an illusion. If you are identified with an illusory self, then you are asleep. Once you are aware of the prison, and you fight to get out of the illusion then you are treating the illusion as if it is real then you remain asleep. The dream becomes a nightmare. You’ll be chasing and running from shadows forever.
Samadhi is the awakening from the dream of the separate self or the ego construct. Samadhi is the awakening from the prison called me. You can never actually be free because wherever you go your prison is there. Awakening is not about getting rid of the mind or the matrix. On the contrary, when you are not identified with it then you can experience the play of life more fully, enjoying the show as it is without cravings or fear.
The divine game of lila, the game of playing in duality; dancing with Shiva. Human consciousness is a continuum, on one extreme, humans identify with material self, on the other extreme is samadhi, the cessation itself. Every step we take on the continuum toward samadhi, brings less suffering. Less suffering does not mean life is free from pain. Samadhi is beyond the duality of pain and pleasure. It means there is less mind and less self creating resistance to whatever is to unfold. Resistance is what creates suffering.
A Movie Review
The movie Men,Women & Children, is a dark almost dystopian drama revolving around the information age of the internet, smart phones , pornography, gaming and the social estrangement and conflict that it can sometimes cause. Several families and many stories comprise this psychologically penetrating film. This rendering is a contemporary depiction of how the anonymity of a veiled identity can lead to an insatiable greed for power, deceit, isolation and the peculiar dilemma of emptiness in the midst of “company.” It is a story of how young people are exposed to too much too soon; indeed, how all of us are susceptible to becoming emotionally hobbled, psychically injured, morally corrupted, cynical, confused and dissociated. Not for the faint of heart, the film is at times briefly explicit with pornography and crude language to depict the identity crisis and abuse of power so prevalent in this odd era of cyber space and its ubiquitous surveillance society. The use of sexual imagery is not designed to appeal to prurient interests and is more a cogent instrument of teaching: a minimalist study with maximum intricacies.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3179568/
For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. Adolf Hitler
Unsurprisingly, when Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power, the first entities they conquered were the free press, psychiatry (analysts), and academia, the very civic functions that insist on unmitigated honesty, sincere self awareness and self understanding. ©kwr
The evil of racism is that it is a violation not only of another’s dignity, but also of one’s own person or soul; the failure of connection with others is a failure to understand or feel what it is one’s own humanity consists in, what it is to be alive, and what it is to see both oneself and others as being ends not means, and as having souls. However much anodyne talk there is of ‘one’s kind’, a society that is racist is a society that cannot accept itself, that hates parts of itself so deeply that it cannot see, does not want to see – because of its spiritual and political nullity and inanition – how much people have in common with each other. Hanif Kureishi
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/kampf.html
Jew who bears this logo is an enemy of our people-slogan of the week Nt, 27J1942 / Central Publishing House of the National Socialist German Workers Party NSDOP (Nazi Party), Munchen (Munich)
Jude Wer dieses Zeichen trägt ist ein Feind unseres Volkes- Parole der Woche Nt, 27J1942/ Zentralverlag der NSDOP The National Socialist German Workers’ Party, (Nazi Party) Munchen (Munich)
http://www.yadvashem.org/
4/27/2014 Holocaust Memorial Day
https://www.adl.org/
“Remember only that I was innocent, I too, had had a face marked by rage, by pity and joy, quite simply, a human face!”
Benjamin Fondane, Exodus
Murdered at Auschwitz, 1944
“The price of liberty and even of common humanity is eternal vigilance.” Aldous Huxley
