Hoc Legere Scis Nimium 

Eruditionis Habes igitur tu es

Observe the Unobserved

Buenos Dias on this fine and dandy post Saint Paddy's Day.  

Would you believe that I started this seventy-two hours ago?  That sums up my hectic daily operations and navigations.  Although I did post Jack Kornfield's video on Saturday (my first post in probably two or three months)...Which I am saddened that I have done.  Jack is a Buddhist teacher.

Anyhow!

Yeah, I am Very guilty for going off the grid...which I often like to do...but, at least I still write when I do...which I haven't been doing for a variety of reasons...and it has created some negative internal animosity.  Plain and simple, I feel my best when I roam the grounds of my existential mind...and I share that world  with whomever is willing to roam that land with me.

Writing is my soulful elixir.  You call them rambles, I call it cerebral ecstasy.  An imaginary paradise of sorts, with a meaning more relevant than any promise of any heaven.

It's always been such a funny little truth how we exist on a wandering path of parallel lives...how we inadvertently mirror one another...without effort, mind you.  But with much recourse. As Life simply stated...twin souls....yet trapped in conflicted worlds.

If I could change my road, I would without thought or hesitance...as if I am picking up a pair of dice.  With a light flick of my wrist, all would change.

Too busy should never be an excuse, since we all live in the same dimension with the same sense of chance and consequence...but, it is what it's been...and that's a place that barely allows me to breathe, smile or sweat. There might be an award for me at the end of this rainbow, but I won't place any bets or make any promises.

The only promise I need to make is that I will persist and I will ascend to the pinnacle I hold myself accountable too.  This round planet has too many sharp curves, but it's how we react to them that defines us.  Merciless and void of compassion.

I dreamt last night that I was standing on a street corner of a somewhat familiar, yet still fantastical street corner when this collisions of cars just erupted in front of me.  Frozen in time, I had no chance to react to this seemingly instantaneous occurrence.  Not able to react or respond.  Almost as if I was invisible to all.  Yet, I was completely spared of any repercussions.

That's my life, I am in my peaceful bubble in the midsts of complete chaos.

Spared by its expense, yet kept as it's hostage.

Crammed on my corner.

Mute to the world.

In many ways I feel the comfort of it, in other ways I feel my voice may eventually get heard.  Maybe that's my optimism, maybe it might be a yearning for brighter hope.  I suppose it's better to be positive than to be negative.  It sets up for a happier expectation.

Which is a good thing.

In my opinion.

Which is like every other.

A commonality in humanity.

But, at least I know it.

And some people feel that it's better not too.

Again, in my opinion...ignorance is one of the sins of humanity.

With it comes a lack of awareness, an absence of mindfulness.  Which creates an attitude of selfishness and an empire of self absorbed ideals.

Which only fuel a detachment from the greater scheme.

A dissociation amongst our molecular connection.

That's me, thinking out loud in my bubble.

Thanks for joining me

Feel free to stay a while, it's quiet and peaceful here...and it should take you out of your chaos.  I've tried existing in that inner turmoil.
And quite frankly, it's not how I like to exist.

Namaste

Jack Kornfield

enjoy liberating the disconnect
and
connect the dots that most people can't seem to see


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JePG49HA3ww




Ps
Jack will be giving a talk at the Bryant Hotel on April 28
Like I said,
Sit Back
and
Enjoy

An Arm of Its own

How exactly would you handle your self when your mechanical arm gets out of hand on national TV?   And you are Speaking French?

Geez, I've had bad days...but this...is a tad bit different.  Thumbs Up, thumbs down...lets just agree to pretend that none of this ever happened.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iEfRA-IU5yA

We Are NOT Our Circumstance

I am who I am and that would be Me.  Me is who I know, it's what I know.  It also happens to be the only thing I know is true to and for me.  Anything else is hearsay and rumor.  Loud or small, quiet or a behemoth....it's still not pertinent to defining me.  Nor do the things around me contain me within their limits.  My emotions are transient, they do not control me.  The world that I stand, the road that I walk is still not me.  Your words, still do not define me.  My circumstance is not who I am.
Me, that's who I am...and my reaction to my circumstance defines the what in who I am.

In my short time here, I have endured many lessons.  Some have taught me well.  Some have gone disregarded or ignored...for better or for worse, those lessons seem to come back threefold.  Some lessons serve an obvious purpose, while other lessons tend to be more subtle and less palpable.  Some lessons have immediate impact, while others aren't appreciate nor understood.  But each lesson, is still a lesson...and we are our own student and teacher.  That's who and what we are.

Lessons come from obstacles, challenges and discomforts.  Life is what we live in, it's also where we are.  Life is not round or square.  There are no parallel lines or perfect triangles.  Life isn't a stream that we float through.  Like all problems, we do not control them...but, we control how we respond to them.
Life is a long lesson plan, and it's a lesson that will continue on with or without 'us'.
If you choose to root yourself, becoming apart of something external rather than evolve around or within the circumstance of life...you become apart of whatever it is that you're rooting within, and theirin lies your self worth.  Submitting your will to the happenings of whatever tangible it is that you are allowing yourself to become defined by.
This is a risky proposition because you are at the mercy of whatever happens to this relationship that you have allowed for...making your value vulnerable and susceptible.

Defining ourselves through our circumstance allows for limits, immeasurables and happenstance.  More importantly, it allows for excuses exonerating us from any growth...and it can keep us stuck in place too easy to stay complacent in.

B  L  A  M  E

It's easier to stay and complain than to react with intent.
Repeating the same, because it's easier.
It eventually becomes the 'what we know'.
Ultimately, defining us.
If we choose to become our circumstance....which could be mistakes or failures, Time (available or lack thereof), criticsm, authority/title/power and any other past baggage that we may be carrying with us because that is how we choose to define ourselves.

Or

We choose to react to our circumstance.
By learning and adapting by using tolerance, endurance, durability, resourcefulness, conviction and fortitude.
By understanding that there is existance beyond the circumstance.
By absolving the possibility of limits, boundaries, end points, prejudices and expectations.
Basically, nothing truly is an absolute...nothing is ever permanent.  As a matter of fact, change is the only constant in our reality....and our possibilities for tomorrow are still yet to be determined.
Determined being the word, and that word is directly correlated to how we choose to react to chance. Focus is our perception, and depending how we choose to focus...we decide our reality.
Our reality ultimately becomes the definition of who and what we choose to be.
Whether mad, happy, sad...it's still not defining us.
It's just what we are in that moment...and if I make it me focus, it becomes my excuse....and I can use my excuse to define me.
Because it's easier to lay still than swim upstream.
Either way, it's the choice (of sink or swim) that can define the direction we choose.


What Defines You?  I bet that it's not your circumstance...unless, of course that how how you choose to define the Who or What.

I choose Me, in the here and now.  Straight, forward, strong and viable.
With patience, compassion and willful understanding that this thickened round rock we all call home has many roads that I can choose to walk, free.

Curse Like a Sailor

only if you mean it!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0f8xnaDIAow

Mixing It Up With Miranda

Forgive me father for I have sinned,

I must confess, completely and utterly without doubt or hesitation absolutely confess...I do not recall you getting snippy or overreacting in any negative manner towards moi.

I am confused, positively consumed in a debilitating (ok, maybe I may be over exaggerating a tad) chaotic confusion....

But all in all, it's true like Rudolph and Frosty in the hearts of so many...I have no idea what you are referencing.

Is it a good or bad thing that I don't know what you mean?  Inquiring minds aren't waiting, they are pondering.

Maybe you intended to get snippy and you got sidetracked?  Maybe the messaged got lost in transit?  Perhaps Santa caught it just in time?  I suppose anything could have happened.

The last thing you sent me said how was it that I could I be handsome And wise.

Now, correct me if I am wrong

(I always welcome all forms of input, opinions, perspective, criticism, debates or discussions...I can't help it it's the whole Greek philosopher in me)

But handsome is good...as is wisdom.

I also recall you feeling stressed from your disgruntled watchdog neighbor...and I did what I could to assuage your feelings through reason, comfort, peace and understanding.

I don't know what else to say...other than that I am happy to learn of your resolution!

(That's really good too).

One other question my lovely dear...what words were you looking for?

Like I have already mentioned...I am elated to learn of your resolution.

Well, now that we have that covered like a present with a bow around it....!

How ar' thee finest of fine, sweeter than sweetest, adoringly precious....always so special lady that dominates my essence like none other?


"MIX"
by
Miranda Lambert


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zTlaRu_Wsl4&list=RDzTlaRu_Wsl4