"We are all just walking each other home." Ram Das
Focus on Interiority: #wisdom #poetry #compassion #holism #dĆ ojiÄ
Zero interest: politics, casual followers, marketing
Gerrit
3 levels of consciousness, not 1:
channeled ā roots,
contained ā trunk,
distributivist - flock
Holism: parts & wholes.
We mistake the āIā of the trunk as the only āI,ā
when the āIā shifts up & down depending on circumstances.
There's no unitary āme.ā
Whitman: "I am large, I contain multitudes."
4/4
Flock
The birds of the flock appear from the branches (as leaves would), fly away, & return to merge back into the branches: this is the level of ādistributive consciousness,ā where the trunkās āIā am lost, mostly freely, in the unseen realm; like when one connects, reads, works, remembers, etc. 3/4
silent maidservants. Beneath that splendor lies danger. She lures young men with moonlit songs, poetry, and a voice that slips straight into the soul. Her verses are not mere art, but enchantment, and few who follow her ever return unchanged, if they return at all. 2/2
šØ ALT
#Poetry #Painting #Summer
walking along a ridge of white sandā
itās cooler below the surface
we stop and, gazing at an expanse of dunes
against an ocean of skyā
- Arthur Sze
šØ Felix Vallaton
Lifeās VIP list is surprisingly low-key: the people who share the last biscuit, admit when theyāre wrong, stay humble after a win and make others feel seen
The best flex? Making life a little better for someone else āØš«¶
#mentalhealth
In Chinese folklore, Wang Yuzhen ēēē is no ordinary beauty, but a yaoguai born from a white snake that cultivated for three thousand years. Clad in green robes & red shoes, adorned like nobility, she moves through lonely places with ghostly elegance, followed by 1/2
#folklore
Trunk
The "meat" space of things one can touch: the level of ācontained consciousness,ā where the āIā resides.
Meditation, reflection, conversation helps me be the āIā in the here & now. Plus, 20 years of therapy also helped āmeā try to be āhere,ā but my consciousness tends to shift up & down. 2/4
My ātree of consciousness.ā
Roots
The lizard brain & socio-cultural & genetic influences & whatever else. Itās the level of āchanneled consciousness,ā where āIā disappear, but not freely:
as in the fight/freeze/flight response,
anxiety & chemical triggers, societal pressures.
1/4
šØ Anneke Chambers
GMš, Susan!
@sdcushing.bsky.social
#BlueBrew, pls?
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#PalacesAndGardens
Kind hearts are the #gardens,
Kind thoughts are the roots,
Kind words are the blossoms,
Kind deeds are the fruits.
Take care of your garden
And keep out the weeds,
Fill it with sunshine,
Kind words, and kind deeds.
-Longfellow
