Post 1266, Day 240 of 2014
- 1,336 days since I started this blog -
- 1,336 days since I started this blog -
So, my intentions are good. There is a wide gap, though, between my thoughts and actions.
Thinking, it turns out, isn't all its cracked up to be. I'm not sure what the alternative is in social situations (I know a few alternatives, but they're useless around other people).
Non-thinking will probably take you further, but who knows how to navigate a non-thinking world? Also, non-thinking makes you vulnerable to accepting other people's thoughts.
That's no good.
Mindfulness seems infintely more useful than non-thinking, but for me it is so... hard, except when I'm playing music.
I wonder why?
No I don't.
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Food and Diet Section
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| 2014 Daily Weight |
Previous Weight: 209.2 lbs
Day Net Loss/Gain: + 0.6 lbs
Diet Comment
Well, yesterday's dining out day, and late-night snacking undid some of the previous gains. Predictable. Also, the coming weekend - spent visiting friends in Woodstock, NY - may not have a very positive effect.Diet Comment
Food Log
Breakfast
Skipped.
Lunch
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| Salmon salad (Wild Alaska pink salmon, celery, mayonnaise) on baby kale, baby spinach, chard, black beans and cole slaw mix. |
A Quest bar.
Dinner
Liquid Intake
Coffee: 28 oz. Water: 80+ oz.
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ReplyDeleteThinking is automatic, as is the ego that propels it. It never stops, as do all the unconscious functions of physical, dual being continue without conscious participation.You know this intellectually, but can also see the truth of this by observation, without interpretation. Identify with the one who has the thoughts, don't identify with a thought or thoughts. i think you will see that the thoughts come and go, are interchangeable, and have no real power or effect on anything other than that which identification attributes to them. The alternative to thinking is not non-thinking. It is your conscious awareness, that underlies and overflies thought and ego.
more to follow as i figure out what words to use. Feel free to ask questions, PLEASE.
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Problems aren't solved by thinking, but by insight.
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What do you do when you improvise? i think that you stop trying to control the situation and use thought only for execution of your Buddha Mind's immediate response to the now/here ever changing situation. You don't try to anticipate, strategize, manage, think through and calculate. You just react intuitively. You trust the spontaneity. You go with the flow wherever it might take you.
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I agree with you all the way.
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