Oscar2
Nov 29, 2008, 10:44 AM
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Re: [cauny] Common sense advice on how to stay safe in Mexico.
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I enjoyed listening to Cauny and Critalhombre's take and would like to also share in kind.
This subject brought on by Mexico today, does draw one in, in fascinating ways, particularly, about thinking, of which some recognize as a byproduct of the mind. Practically speaking, the mind is a limited but yet a very useful tool, which helps support intelligence. However, it’s proven, time and time again, that emotions consistently annihilate even the highest degree of intellect. Let us reflect on the historical human dysfunction of some of our highest regarded thinkers which spawned horrendous, appalling wars intelligence fell prey too when emotions dared someone to cross the line.
This is not an indictment on all thinking but a prism enlightened by a deeper sense of consciousness needed to control mind driven thought, especially destructive thought. Not all fear is bad but destructive fear can induce deep, extreme emotional anguish/pain. If one can step back just far enough to witness this conundrum, awareness of what is occurring through being conscious of what the mind/thought patterns are actually doing, it invites the kind of clarity, which in turn can breed more confidence from decisions made through a deeper sense of a conscious awareness.
Uncontrollable pain can be a mind driven, a thinking apparatus, skillfully designed by the mind through continuous, unceasing mind noise/chatter, if you will, that with enough witnessing type of separation, a window into this unceasing mind noise, clearly starts seeing some of the insanity, in which in your past, many choices were made. Yours truly is no exception and being human, fallibility still exists but almost predictably due in part to this discovered deeper sense of self.
Today, right now, is a new day, a new instant in time, as we know it, and all is well. Allowing negative thought to deface this moment with future or past, edged by phantoms of fear, mind noise loves to play on unceasingly to keep control of you. The power of pain supported by anguish, frustration, doubt, anger, regret and on and on, ad-infinitum, is permitting the mind to take this very precious moment from us and churning it into a controlling mechanism dependent on the fears we adopt and grow accustomed too and in our own way accept it as our normal way of life……..Sheeesh
There is more to this but in trying to keep it short, a 17th century philosopher Descartes dictum of (I think, therefore I am) was refuted by another philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, three hundred years later. Today, even another dimension has surfaced realizing that external thought outside our deeper sense of consciousness, is the identity we give ourselves through mind driven thought – this is the ego that we know, at times, doesn’t always work in our favor.
There is more to this but suffice to say, everyone has his or her own take and way of dealing with life. Personally I prefer to enjoy, as best I can, and to accept life in the manner in which I do because yes, I am, who I am and it is, what it is…… 
(This post was edited by Oscar2 on Nov 29, 2008, 1:20 PM)
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