2008-08-23-0835 Perfect--that's how things are. Here to play. I was, earlier, wandering into great thoughts. I could follow the culture channeled by others in the afternoons; I could see where my being wanders--what passes through this undirected node--before then. G. Ann: "As I say: I don't turn on the TV before noon."
I am near a deserted creek crossing. The washed-out bridge has been rebuilt downstream. The only sounds: creek--Granite Creek--, wind, birds, bugs, and the munch of ants' jaws as I am tested for edibility.
Looking down to shallow pools, little trout; pools in the worn granite.
Conceptions, billions of them, walking around. Looking deeply (a Thich Nhat Hanh phrase) at a being, I see the moment of origination. The initiation of mixing and copying.
Looking deeply, also, I see human minds-- my own, this afternoon--seeking direction. The mind reading this.
We're more than seeking mind?
Benjamin Franklin, for him, once, access to information was the good.
Now: access to from where info--conception.
The novel, easy on the mind, because, till novel ends, mind need not wonder, can rush on, rush on. Not always easy though to find reading mind is happy to follow.
The novel suits the onrushing, ever-twitching, ant-like & bear-like (when they seek food), behavior of the loosed mind. Follow me!
Or, reading, more generally.
No answers here, other than give mind hours per day to wander, not immediately directed, affected by others. Does this require isolation? If others are around, reflexively, I react, unless, perhaps, through meditation I have made them "ripples on the surface of being" (Eckhart Tolle phrase).
May be time to walk on. Mind is empty as the blue sky, as the breeze, templado, temperate as it is.
Seekers, questioners, choosers! From where comes seeking?
From where, choosing?
From where, the question?
From where the conception
that it is time to walk on?
Can you live if you ask?
Can you not ask?
And what is good? --As B. Franklin prayed to be guided toward. And what is the good of _our_ time? Where and to what actions are we now guided if we stop and listen, follow?
I am not guided toward the roads that cars drive down. I am not guided to where mind-numbing, preoccupying food is always too easily got. I am guided to where ants nibble nipples near ripples.
Aha! Something cries: "The future! What about the future?"
"Great action! What about action?"
"Contentment. What about that?"
What about this culture flow? Could it be that more and more will live with less because less is all needed, wanted?
Oh, we each serve/perform our function, I suppose. Given the variables encountered.
Oh Culture, flow from me! Reproduce through me! Grow by my life. Be freed by me.
Mind, you seek guidance, occupation? You seek something to devote yourself to? Love, union, joy?
I leave you with nothing but the seeking and old Wilber's remark that we're both ever seeking and ever whole and we can switch--and I guess shimmer--between the two.
Same as for the future and as for being here now, I suppose.
If you want a solid course of action: arrange to spend more time with nothing to do (yet with access to what you might want to be content, relaxed, at peace).
The only solid possibility I see following is that that freedom becomes recognized, valued, understood, cultivated. Not all that different from how freedom and time to meditate are cultivated by some.
--to the extent that that freedom is seen as as necessary as nutrition, warmth, freedom from physical, emotional violence.
In other words: a cultural transition from: "Idle hands do the Devil's work." to "Minds never idle do no real work."
They avoid the work of our time.
Not Franklin's time. Not the time after ours. When more of the world is free to let mind wander, when that ability is regarded as as necessary as sleep? to our purpose here, then that may be the time after ours.
Humanity something different then.
Is this a vision of cultural imperialism?
Is this a vision of cultural liberation, diversity, multiplicity, indigenization, freedom?
A vision of liberation of the origin of culture, of conception.
Culture comes not from the land alone (minus "alone", perhaps a Quail Springs phrase), but from the interaction of freed, seeking mind with what it finds itself in. A mind, active, is always channeled and limited, but, in general, humanity? culturemind? would benefit from minds given more freedom, less channel. And this means freedom likewise from drives, addictions, compulsions, fears.
There is always unknown. Rather than attempting to fill limited minds with limited facts, encourage minds to play with moment conception.
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Peace,
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