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Jed McKenna

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What to do while locked down.... or all the time.
« on: March 26, 2020, 01:47:05 am »
Dear reader:

Well, we are finding ourself in a wonderful dream, and it is time to do things we have never done, use this time as an opportunity. My suggestions are:

1.) Clean up the house, do those things you have been putting off around the house.
2.) Study something you have always thought of studying, learn guitar, Swahili, how to dance (best learned alone), study and get going on the Tai Chi course you bought years ago, and I am running out of ideas. You tell me what you are going to do.
3.) If you have put some food away, be aware that you will probably eat MORE when stuck inside, be cautios.
4.) If you smoke dope, cut back.
5.) Get into a daily routine, shower, take garbage out, blah, blah, whatever it is, get into it and maintain it. Approach this as a task, a job, a new way to behave. You can figure it out.

Well, that's just what arises to me, but I would enjoy hearing your thoughts on what to do. No theories, politics, or invest info. Just what you are going to do with your spare time... and you might have alot of it.

I wish you the best always, and stay healthy.

Love ya, Jed.

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What to do while locked down.... or all the time.
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2020, 01:07:57 pm »
Thank you for the practical advice. I like my gurus to have good common sense. Like when someone asked the Dalai Lama his advice on sex. The Dalai Lama replied, “Wear a condom.”

The 60s have been my most challenging decade. Easy to forgive others & not be judgmental, but harder to develop any kind of plan of action.

In some sense I realize that this is not “my world” any more, and I’m fine with letting it go. But, now what? Well, I will attend to your practical advice here and just be thankful for all the intelligence with which I’m surrounded, in nature, in my body, and from a plethora of other sources.

Perhaps it is time to resume my death doula studies? I paid for it after all. If nothing else, perhaps I’ll be more prepared, practically, for my own death. I was supposed to start hospice volunteering when everything came to a screeching halt. Is that what death is? A screeching halt to things as usual? If so, what a potential blessing!


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Re: What to do while locked down.... or all the time.
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2020, 05:58:16 pm »
Sunny day. I opened some windows and had at it, cleaning the house after a 2 week + cough and blowing my nose. Thank you Jed, for the simple instructions—ones I can understand and implement. None of that “look outside, then look inside” stuff. I am one with my house, though. It is me and I am it.

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Re: What to do while locked down.... or all the time.
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2020, 04:43:59 am »
Go out for walks or run whenever possible. Since i can't go to gyms i workout indoors a lot. I should spend less time on the internet. I have plenty of puzzle books and books i can always read or reread. I enjoy late night movies at home. Just sitting alone with myself is nice too. Not much of a drastic change from prior.

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I sit in contemplation. I hunt down whatever is unreal. After finding it, I intend to kill it and move ahead. But then a voice comes forth from inside and tells me that, "every unreal is act of the Real." Then the same voice asks me, " how the act of the Real can be unreal?" It stops me taking any action. Then I fall back in the lap of the Cogito [I-AM] of the undifferentiated God. This gives me the satisfaction. Then the Cogito, to repeat its cycle, throw me back in grip of Maya. And again, the Cogito starts its journey through the darkness of self and world ... to the light of Its own Truth. Caught in these recurring cycles, in divine hide and seek ... I find me passing my times!

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Thank you all for your thoughtful posts.

Take care, be well...

love ya, Jed