What is Real?

“The experience of suffering is to Acceptance of ‘what is’ as Cold is to Heat.”

So the experience of suffering is resistance… the very act of resistance, a refusal of acceptance, blocks up the body electrically, runs the wrong brain chemicals, and just on that level things get messed up. It’s like you’ve gone from the runner’s track onto a treadmill. You’re in a bottleneck. Or you become a bottleneck.

I’ve done it.

Your article is excellent. A good one to read at the end of the day when I am feeling I haven’t done enough, not quite, not yet. That’s the dance training…. a moment of reminder and I can let it go.

i really like this post, but there is one slight part i have issue with. i do not think love and hate are opposites, or that hate is the absence of love. i think fear would be better in that spot. i think hate is definitely “a thing” in itself. also people can have strong feelings of both love and hate towards the same person.

Actually if we concentrate on our dislikes enough they become hates. Getting rid of dislikes is a refinement that takes sensivity. It’s more important to work on hates first. Science is now telling us that pain is concentrated thought. If we keep thinking about something, we put more and more energy into it, making it powerful indeed. A pain is calling for an answer, more rest, a doctors visit. Maybe it’s not good to ignore it. Sometimes, though, there’s not much to do. Musing with the spirit might bring insight into the cause or a solution. While we are thinking of solutions, the energy in directed to a solution. That eases the pain or eliminates it and the energy comes over to the solution, which is a good idea to put our effort behing a solution rather than in effect lamenting our inability to do anything.
I had a neighbor come over complaining about world conditions and the plight of unwed mothers. You know, if I asked him to help me and he said my situation was terrible and he was going to worry about it, I would think that quite heartless and yet that’s what complaining is. He said he couldn’t do anything about world conditions. I said let’s sit down and see what we could do about it. He foolishly did and before I could say anything, he started talking about his daughter. I thought, oh, something we can do something about. Couldn’t get a word in edgwise before he was talking about himself. Now there is where we have to start all solutions, if that’s not too absolute a comment. I saw that he was out in the world thinking about those problems and not connecting to himself or his daughter who hadn’t learned to connect with anything either, because I knew her and could just picture that from the look on her face all the time, a disconnect. By really listening to her, he could go where she is and be a companion. If he was connected to himself he would be connected to reality and connect her without a word, possibly.
So that leaves us with, what is connect to yourself? Science says our left and right brains are disconnected. There is a deep groove down the center. as you may have seen in pictures. They say we are stuck on the left side, I might add the bad side. Connection of the sides connects you to everything, almost or at least you have that sense, including more effective thinking ability. But how to do it. It’s really easy except for one thing, we don’t want to. It means complete objectivity like the right brain has. We have to look at our intutitive thoughts and give up all other thinking, our feelings and opinions and just find out what out intuition has to say. Question it, even, and we go where it is. Like talking to his daughter, it’s mostly listening, what women always say they want men to do. Not just listen, but go there.
In the past that has been a problem, because we lost our identity in the process, so there’s more to it. Basically, if we are well connected to the right brain, we can come back and bring, almost leverage them back with us. There is an objectivity, in that the alternative is no world. Ayn Rand said that this is the only possible world, except for the bad in it, of course, and we can eventually do away with that. The good in the world is objective in that the good in the world isn’t going anywhere for long. The mistakes are becoming evident to everyone and they now don’t want to, nor will they put up with them anymore. It’s like critical mass in nuclear fision. Information has hit critical mass and “all things are being made new”, or at least in the works.

Charles:

I guess the fact that hate can be all consuming is evidence for me that it doesn’t work as a lack of love. That hate is something there, not what’s left when something is taken away.

I had always thought of fear as being the opposite of love, but I’m not sure of that either when I use your light/dark analogy. I think “shining” love on fear does take it away, but does a lack of love in one’s life means fear will be felt? Perhaps apathy is the true opposite of love. Not caring at all.

I have a tendency to (over) think things through until they seem logical to me. Sorry if you find it annoying at all!

Herb:

Interesting comment. I have thought about how, in my personal life, I would rather push for something good than fight something bad. Although it can look like a purely semantic difference, I think the way an issue is viewed can impact a person. Don’t know exactly where that fits in, but I know it does.

Also, this isn’t the most important of comments, but the whole left brain/right brain is not accurate. I know now it has become a new way of saying logical vs. creative/feeling or math and science vs. language and art, but really it doesn’t reflect how our brains work. There are not people walking around who use the physical left side of their brains most often and then others who use the physical right side of their brains most often. Ideas about personality differences are interesting, but that language often bothers me because it is based on something that is neurologically incorrect.

I don’t know about right brain left brain. I use it more as a metaphor. An x for a formula. I just read that women have 10% more connections with the right and left brains and 30% more intuition because of it. I’m up in the air about all that. I did think that I got so depressed once thinking how worthless it was. I don’t suppose I’m that worthless, but I had a lot of energy behind it for some reason. I wonder if making such a judgment at all is even necessary. It certainly wasn’t very helpful. I just decided that I had to get some coffee any way and some how forgot about it. I saw myself doing that, so I decided to make it a rule that all negative thoughts were kind of unreal. Just thoughts that didn’t do any good so why give them a job? Then I could say that depression is unecessay too. Hate turns out to be a thought directed to no purpose also, since turning to a solution brings all that energy over on to a positive. Hate is letting something go for too long that needs doing, like us all working together. It’s in a way hateful on our part not to work together. LOL To hate what’s bad for a second is to turn away from it to something else. Staying attached to it indefinitely is bad x time. Even if the object exists for a time, we don’t have to hate it because hate is debilitating. You might think you have to hate, but I find you don’t. Just listen to your intuition. It has solutions and will soon have you involved in solutions, which becomes fun. Most of the problems come from issues we failed to address. Issues cause us to move and keeps life flowing. That’s good. Letting things go starts building into a problem. The origin wasn’t bad, just something we needed to do. Ignoring something starts to build that whole negative world. My idea is not to hate anything, just change it. Then you’re engrossed in the solution, the intuition and imagination open up and lo and behold, a whole lot of good ideas. Hate is stuck in the pain and contemplating the no progress, no imagination. Intuition is imagination in progess. It’s a choice because the intuition will always give you a way out or something to do. The mess is cause by the inertia of Six billion people who, by only coming together, would solve enough problems to work together on the rest, which is extending life and health.
One person, however, can solve what’s in and around them and then reach out to help others do the same. No mind change and no real change. If you know, reach one teach one and a firestorm is starting already. I see it all around. I always thought it was dumb to say that “you can be as happy as you want to be.” That’s only if you connect to the intuition in my experience. Most of the things we hate most, we made. Pain to me is being separated from what you may call various things like, God, our higher power, the intuition and other things can substitute, just some designations turn out to be more effective than others. I care little what someone else uses. I’m just happy for them they are looking away from what I see as the wrong way. I don’t look back, I already know the problems, I pretty much look at the solutions and look back to match them up with the problems. Like shining a light in the dark. You need the light first. The subconscious, still small voice or whatever you call it, knows the answer or is the answer. It’s not a word game. Any word will do, to some degree. Beats pure pain. That’s not my kind of purity. The sages have always said to turn away from bad. Isn’t that the first step and the deeper meaning of sayings like that? In the East they turn to the Tao. Isn’t that turning to good. It’s like the answers comes out of the void. Answers from nowhere. LOL Funny but true. When you look to the void or nothing, you turn your back on every bad thing we’ve made. That’s half way there and then ideas come that are all new. Unfamiliar, but listened to, questioned, they become very familiar and obviously right by every test.
Maybe we need to reach a critcal mass of information to have it work. Many have. Maybe we need to know something deeply and a few sentences on the ten categories in the library. Or maybe a little of the 100 sub categories. So many people actually reject one or two of the top ten. How can you think straight like that? We reject entirely too much. That’s the advantage or looking to nothing we know. Every day require being alert to the new. Ideas are supposed to pass through like food. Every second we have to look forward, not back and ideas come for the moment and new patterns are seen that are different for the next second. Makes life a thrill. An overview of the whole situation includes the past and future, but being in the present we can see the forest for the trees, see the problem objectively, from a distance, not living in the past or even the future. That’s only scientific.
Observation is the crux of the scientific method. The first thing they taught us is that science isn’t a set of rules, except for how to observe. Ideas come from the facts, seeing the facts. Looking at them. Evaluating them is something different from observing them. It’s really like, they eveluate themselves. See the cars and no one should have to tell you what to do unless you are not paying attention, not in the present or are drunk, emotionally drunk or tired or the like. It’s so much like that, that it can almost be said to be that. Your subconscious can evaluate vast amounts of data, and you’re pretty much wasting your time when it will tell you what the data means by intuition. Maybe this quote will mean more than what I can possibly say from my limited prespective. There’s plenty of other information out there like this also. Too much even.
“From Intellect to Intuition”
By Alice A. Bailey
This immediate access to Truth is the ultimate destiny of all human beings, and it seems probable that some day the mind itself will lie as much below the consciousness as the instincts now do. We shall then function in the realm of the intuition and shall talk in terms of the intuition with as much ease as we now talk in terms of the mind, and we will function as mental beings.
Are you familiar with the Christian books in the Left Behind Series. They think we’re all going to be left behind, but it will be them, if they don’t wake up. The good news is that, “We all will be changed in the twinkling of an eye.” maybe just at slightly different times. LOL
Thank you for this forum. Some how the spirit moves here. A spirit of love, truth, acceptance, inquiry and probably more. Thank you again.

Somehow I see all things as relating so let me see if I can relate these two things.
In Canada it seems you can be designated either a Child of the Provinces or a Free Man on the Land. It allows for a person to grow up from the collective to move on the stage three of Communism as far as I remember. Both parties are trying to pull us back into a monarchy/government monopoly and the like. If our schools or education doesn’t get any better, then we can’t handle maturity anyway, so it doesn’t matter.
The other idea is that science and spirituality are like two rails for a train track. The tracks seems to come together in the distance, but they never do. Life is always a duality and driven by the tension. God is singularity, but he made duality, us. If we don’t want to exist, just enter a collective and loose all identity, an identity crisis. The say we are God in the singularity, but the mystery is that somehow they do. Need I say more?

That needs more than moderating it needs editing. Please do and add to it, I think I left soemthing out to say the least. lol