November 2, 2011, Lakewood, CO
11:33:21, hours MDT
...continued hiker’s meditation…
Saturday, September 15, 2007
posted by Rolf Gates http://rolfgatesthoughts.blogspot.com/2007/09/important-thing.html
Defending an idea or a position is not important. Justifying or explaining the way things are is not important. Feeling more or feeling less is not important. T he movement of the mind to an imagined past or an imagined future and the feelings we feel when we follow the mind’s wanderings are not important. All of the reasons we can only be a little of who we are, and all of the ways we try to prove them to be true, are not important.
The important thing is to be awake now, to feel the transparency, to feel the universal shining through the individual, and then to allow life to express itself though us.
The important thing is to be awake now, to feel the transparency, to feel the universal shining through the individual, and then to allow life to express itself though us.
Rolf’s above thoughts tend to give much weight to the pointlessness inherent in living in one’s head.
Reflectiveness— upon reflection we tend to get out of our head- space and enter the realm of the sensed partialness of the moment.
I believe that there are three ways to Get- It.
1) — we get It and become available to its inherent energies and are therefore able to use It,
2)— we get It in the last three days we live on the planet and then feel remorse and guilt over not being able to reflect and use this at once vital energy during our living on the planet and then,
3) We never get it… see the dictators on the planet for example— the self- absorbed; whereby it is all about them.
Is not the through- hiker aware of this detail in his/ her walk?
Is not the intrepid camper in walled tent on a blizzardy night not this aware as well?
Were not the Innuit of the Barrens aware of this?
The contemporary experience for American consumers is geared to have them live in their heads, so that the managers can manage them better. They do this to them by hiding the demands and clauses in the “fine print.”
Does the intrepid camper above NEED fine print while the wind and snow is howling out there?
Does the through- hiker require fine print in order to walk the 25-30 miles per day?
Did those Innuit before the demise of their Culture need fine print to know about the moment?
Did you answer no?
Your thoughts are welcome, thanks a lot for your kind attention to today’s missive.
me
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