Tuesday, December 10, 2013

December 10

Post 1021, Day 344 of 2013
- and 1074 days since I started this blog -


Daily Comment
It's all Decartes' fault.

 I think therefore I am. 

 Or, maybe, I think therefore I think I am.

 And so on.

 Are we somehow 'not' when we are not thinking? Or is what we call thinking just the part of thought we are aware of? Self-awareness seems to be the primary function of conscious thought, but we couldn't know that without thinking about it.

Secondarily, thinking seems to be the function with which we maintain duality, the self and otherness, so it is useful in navigating the sensual/physical/material world of time and space.

 Is it essential for life? Conscious thought would seem to be a tool, not the user of the tool, and no, it is not essential. I am biting my tongue to keep from mentioning how I know people who seem to survive just fine without any evidence that they are now thinking, or ever have. Oh.

 At best, thinking is a distraction from the essential, and a barrier to living in the moment, when you have to stop processing environmental information.
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 Food and Diet Section
2013 Daily Weight
Today's Weight:         204.2 lbs
Previous Weight:        205.6 lbs
Day Net Loss/Gain:      - 1.4 lbs

Diet Comment
The turnaround continues.

Food Log 
Breakfast
A cacao-kale-hemp-chia protein shake (almond milk, kale, a large egg, raw organic cacao powder, hemp seeds, chia gel, whey powder (30g protein), cinnamon and stevia-inulin blend).
Lunch
Turkey breast on Ezekiel 4:9 Golden Flax sprouted grain bread with mayo and a salad of Spring Mix greens, cole slaw mix and balsamic vinaigrette. 

Dinner
Ezekiel 4:9 Golden Flax sprouted grain cereal with blueberries, almond milk and stevia-inulin blend.

Liquid Intake
   Coffee:  28 oz.   Water: 104+ oz.

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9 comments:

  1. andyDecember 11, 2013 at 11:42 AM

    i completely agree. Well said !

    - Light - Love - Compassion - Harmony -

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    1. Reverend KenDecember 12, 2013 at 7:42 AM

      Andy, a lot of this comes from you. Obviously.

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    2. andyDecember 12, 2013 at 9:11 AM

      Well, to my mind, wherever it came from, it was expressed simply and beautifully in your blog for the world to read.

      - Light - Love - Compassion - Harmony -

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  2. joanDecember 12, 2013 at 9:25 AM

    so I of course think thought is part of being in the world not separate from it. I think it can go on without awareness of it. It is like breathing, an automatic process that maintains life.

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  3. andyDecember 12, 2013 at 10:04 AM

    Thoughts are constantly flowing and changing, and happen as an automatic process, When you are aware of the automatically flowing thoughts, uncontrolled and uncontrollable, it becomes conscious thought with no identification with the process. By not attaching to this process, you create space for other ways of interacting with the world - such as breathing without anxiety and resistance ; or understanding without the prejudice of the conditioned, programmed intellect; etc.. The point is, if we can do anything with our life, the first step to understanding what is needed from us, is to free ourselves of illusions and delusions.

    - Light - Love - Compassion - Harmony -

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  4. joanDecember 13, 2013 at 9:41 AM

    I agree but thought is still going on at some level and automatic things are happening. I do agree that by becoming conscious of that process is the way to free oneself ( alittle) from it. Love you

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  5. andyDecember 13, 2013 at 12:02 PM

    Automatic processes are necessary to perform the billions of adjustments that are required to maintain a balanced exchange and transmutation of energies between our body and our environment. Our conscious intellect's delayed reaction time to change ( it takes time for the signals to travel from the surface of our sense organs to the interested brain centers that inform our active responses) prevents us from responding in real-time. This means our thoughts only relate to memory constructs of what has happened and not what is happening. Thought, as Ken has indicated, "... seems to be the function with which we maintain duality, the self and otherness, so it is useful in navigating the sensual/physical/material world of time and space.". All of our automatic functioning ( including automatic thinking) are tuned to fight, postpone, or defeat our space/time death ( as if we could ), Thus, functioning only through automatic processes, we live by Fear and illusion, responding to an event that has not happened, and thus is not real. If we are able to free consciousness of this illusion, we are left with consciousness grounded in the reality of Life.

    " to free oneself ( alittle) " --- Isn't that like getting yourself a little pregnant?

    - Light - Love - Compassion - Harmony -

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  6. joanDecember 16, 2013 at 10:23 AM

    I guess so. I think only very special people can exist in the moment. Most of us can do it for small amounts of time.

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    1. andyDecember 16, 2013 at 11:17 AM

      we all only exist in the present. i have never met any "special" people in my entire life.
      I personally have never been able to "stay" in the present for any amount of "time". The challenge for us is to recognize when our automatic, habitual mental activities draw our attention out of the present. At the instant of recognition, we are fully conscious in the here and now, able to recognize when our automatic, habitual mental activities draw our attention out of the present. All is in motion, nothing stays the same.

      - Light - Love - Compassion - Harmony -

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