INVISIBLE GURU FORUM

Chinese people have the strange habbit to eat dogs.. dogs have brains.. 

or not.

 

Some reason, I tend to be attracted to 'drama queens'. Drama queens have stories, they are totally 'in' the world and tend to believe that their world is the center of the Universe. I am now involved with a 'drama queen' who's every waking moment is a fun house that beats any reality TV show I have ever seen. Her world is full of intrigue, liars and 'good' people and 'bad' people, 'he's doing this to her', OMG etc. etc. Wow I am entranced following Vicky's world as she gushes out her stories, her world. Me, I listen mostly, so I attract folks who like to talk and showcase their world to listeners. That all being said, I do have an antennae, and maybe it's from the body, that detects negative energy. Been pretty good at staying away from that...so far. My 2 cents.

I find your assertion that one's body should be trusted to do the right thing entirely in agreement with my own experience.  An example: For years, I have spent a few hours each week shooting pool with a friend of mine (on his pool table, in his house). Evaluating my experience in this pastime reveals the upper and lower limits of my skill. Overall, it looks like a sine wave - some sessions better than others. Observing the comparative quality of many thousands of reps has demonstrated that my body knows exactly how to make even the most difficult shots successfully when my consciousness of what I'm doing is directed elsewhere. The less concentration/determination I apply to making shots, the more likely I am to succeed. This has proven true countless times. My body, through muscle memory, knows exactly what needs to be done.  If I keep my conscious mind out of the way, it can be trusted to make the most exacting shots time after time. Trouble is, the conscious mind has more fear of failure than it has trust in success and therefore believes it must assume control in every situation.  Willfully trying to suppress it leads to a state of dissonance in which failure is guaranteed.  I do my most accurate shooting when my conscious mind is busy prattling away about anything except the pool game.

AP, what do you mean by the 'conscious mind'? I'm a pool player myself. Do you mean the 'mind talk'? When I am running the table, I am 'in the zone'. Is that what you mean? Thanks.

It's the same mechanism that makes old folks afraid of computers and youngster very proficient on them.

Love ya, Jed.

I like people only in as much as they reflect my own image, only if they see me as good, smart, beautiful, etc. We can only really love ourselves.

Good people are those who believe my lies, who support my ego, and bad people are the honest ones.

I believe this summed up the question I had previously with what was meant by the mind not being a good judge of a person. I find this to be true of the mind's character - supporters of its beliefs about life are 'good' and whom flatter their ego in some kind of way.

People that don't do these things and are honest, even if they don't bother anyone, are seen as 'misfits,' 'something is wrong with them,' 'rude,' 'pessimistic,' etc.

I read (and experimented) that we can only talk about ourselves when taking about 'other' people. There might be a double connotation in this, but how the heck can anyone else know another human being (unless they literally see the action) when they don't even know or like themselves?

I had a great laugh when I realized that everything I've said about another was literally about 'me.' It just didn't want to accept or see it. And how foolish the mind is thinking another person (or living thing) is above or below it. The same thing keeping your worse 'enemy' alive is also keeping you alive (and while we sleep). We are literally taking in the same air to help sustain each other life. Labels are just labels and are directly related to how we are feeling and whether the person in question supports or rejects our ego's ideas in some way.