A Core Package — Basic Message in a Clear Bottle (OM004)
— "So what is it that you wish to say?" ...asked no-one in particular, so I heard. Good question though — thanks for asking. Alright then. One neat baseline package for you. What I seek to communicate and share in thousand ways.
1. May we get over the narrow selves we're boxed into. Our tunnels: the fractured little identities we guard. Separating us from the whole and warping our awareness.
2. May we get over our habit-driven unconscious reactions. Choices without awareness bind us and compromise our freedom. Instinct, emotion, intellect, identity — liberate it all.
3. Attend to general patterns — zoom out from the details. We find parallel and familiar insight across all contexts. We recognize the same loops we repeat in a thousand ways.
4. Attend to your primary perspectives of orientation. We have basic cognitive tunings and windows of attention. Eight human frames. Four elemental movers. Roots of awareness. None of this is "philosophy". You need but zone in and see.
5. Accept and relate to the fact of perpetual change. Where all of this is impermanent in the flux of change, obsession with fixed roles and frames leads to suffering.
These are the basic goods in a short package. None of this is newly created, invented, or hypothetical. Most of this is tragically forgotten in our world. As to the final question that follows, "What do you hope to get out of all this?" Covered in the tail end of the reel yes. Fast-forward if the rest bores you mindless.
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- ¶ 1. Let Us All Get Over Ourselves ↴
- ¶ 2. Let Us Get Over Our Reactions ↴
- ¶ 3. Attend Less to Particulars - More to Patterns ↴
- ¶ 4. Perspectives and Primary Patterns — Three Levels ↴
- ¶ 5. Adjusting to Perpetual Change ↴
- ¶ Why of the Message — Outlooks and Aspirations ↴
"So, what is it that you wish to say?" Asked no one in particular, but it's a representative question.
"All these hundreds of broadcasts in different directions, could you please just package it into a single delivery representative of all the things that you are trying to say?" OK, let's go.
1. Let Us All Get Over Ourselves ¶
The first core drop. Let us all get over ourselves.
These finite, fractured identities that we attach to, they become the tunnels of our existence, separate us from everyone else, insulate us from the collective, and function as distorting fields for our cognition.
So if we can try and exit from our little boxes, look beyond into a broader horizon, look upon ourselves as integral aspects of the whole, that would be beneficial not only for you, but for everyone.
2. Let Us Get Over Our Reactions ¶
Second, let us get over our reactions.
We have this tendency to react, evaluate into positives and negatives, wants and don't-wants, everything that lands in our horizon. And we do this habitually, we do this unconsciously. And with that unconscious choosing, we are goaded into a particular direction by our conditioning.
This happens on instinctual level, on emotional level, on intellectual level, and ultimately on the plane of our identity and our aspirations. All of these reactions, they limit our freedom of choice, they bind us into a particular framing. If we can get over those, we will be in freedom.
3. Attend Less to Particulars - More to Patterns ¶
Third, to attend less to the particular details, and attend more to the general patterns.
As in, we get off the microscope. We look at the contexts of things. We look at the patterns, the dynamics of things. And in that, we will find much that is familiar to us from countless other contexts. When we are too preoccupied with what is right in front of our nose, we do not see that the same cycle we have gone through a thousand times, the same patterns, the same loops, we have gone through a million times.
By attending to the patterns of things, to the generality, to the abstract that underlies all specific individual implementations, we gain a broad pool of reference into how best relate to life, existence, ourselves, all situations that we land in. So patterns. All is made of patterns, but we are so obsessed with the details.
4. Perspectives and Primary Patterns — Three Levels ¶
And fourth. Of patterns and perspectives.
While there is an infinity of very complex and concrete patterns in our existence, there are also what we call the primaries, the more elementary, the more basic underlying perspectives, dynamics, windows that give us deeper bearings into what's going on.
We look at this on three basic levels.
4.1 Our Embodied Human Framings
First, our life, our embodied human framings, the processes that roll forward in our lives.
First, into our baseline. We simply are, exist. We turn outward, we look at what is, orient. We take impressions, inward, we feel. And then, from our feelings and our orientation, we wish, aspire, look outward again.
Then, will, intention is formed. From that, works follow, we engage and we transform the world. Then, we integrate, pool our essence together. And in the end, all of that synchronized, we actuate, we culminate as human beings. In the particular role to which this process relates.
That's one set of windows, the eight, that are omnipresent in our concrete, manifest existence in its framings.
4.2 The General Movers of Life
Then, to the middle ground, behind this concrete existence, we have the more general movers.
First, deep within ourselves, we have our base structure, our innate construct. Then, we have a reflective, adaptive presence flowing through all of reality.
Then, we have an interactive, catalytic presence where we engage with our agenda against reality. And ultimately, we have our broad horizon, the greater meanings and cycles of our lives, the major system of what we are.
That's a plane of orientation. Windows into what's going on.
4.3 The Roots of Our Existence
Beyond that, we are in a perhaps more metaphysical department.
We have the seer – raw prime consciousness. We have the seen – matter, the formative potential itself. And there is the membrane of our engagement, the mirror of our awareness. These are all aspects that may be explored and encountered in states of meditation.
And from those encounters, these perceptions will descend into our day-to-day reality, providing higher and deeper vantage points, more categorical – aggregators, perspectives, unfolders, openers, even enlighteners, into the plurality of our lives.
And at the back of it, yes, there is the void, emptiness. Importantly, emptiness of anything permanent. We are ever in the flux of change.
5. Adjusting to Perpetual Change ¶
And as the fifth, as we are in this unavoidable, unstoppable flux of perpetual change, nothing is permanent, then why should you attach and be obsessed by particular scenarios, by particular agendas, by your particular identity, the roles that you assume in life?
Be flexible. Engage your potentials, but do not force them. Be free in your stream of being. Be a free operator in your stream of becoming. It will reduce the suffering you experience.
Why of the Message — Outlooks and Aspirations ¶
So those are some of the core contemplations. The message in a package, if you will. And as a P.S. to that, there is the question, "What are you hoping to get out of all this?" Nothing, really. I am simply pouring out what I see, what has been imprinted into me, what has ripened to a point.
Now, in the interim, if there were people who actually shared the vision, or a part thereof... Because these are, all of this that I dropped, these seem to be beneficial for one and all, both individually, in reducing our existential claustrophobia, and collectively, in reconciling and harmonizing our collective as a whole.
If there were people who actually cared to collaborate, in their whichever way, there's certainly plenty that could be done. And then, when all of this, what has been said – I'm sure there's plenty more to it, but these baselines – if they establish themselves in the collective mind and take on a life of their own, remaining intact, not hijacked for any questionable agenda, then there be my reward, and I have earned my retirement.
I have no interest in showing my face over again, and over again, and over again. But this is what I have, and I have not the time to start producing whatever deepfakes with the white rabbit speaking out what I actually wish to say.
This is simple, authentic communication. And for those of you who are allergic of my unholy appearance, I apologize. This is what I have. Turn the video off. Tune to the audio if that's what you need. Read the text if you are also annoyed by my voice.
But there are some important points in here. So, that's what I hope to share. Okay.