Zigzag Idiot

"The Love Religion has no Doctrine" - Rumi This is one of my favorites.

Conscious suffering = a struggle between yes and no Conscious suffering = sacrificing unnecessary suffering (complaining, making accounts against others, Identifications) Conscious suffering results in growth of essence and Being.

4-18-2019 34 Using Power Lines 1,2 and 6 56 The Wanderer

The Pain body Negative Emotion Echart Tolle articulates it well and efficiently. This is the last half of an article by him. It's in all of our lives to some degree. Its the forgetting side of the pendulum. The pain-body is a semiautonomous energy-form that lives within most human beings, an entity made up of emotion. It has its own primitive intelligence, not unlike a cunning animal, and its intelligence is directed primarily at survival. Like all life-forms, it periodically needs to feed–to take in new energy–and the food it requires to replenish itself consists of energy that is compatible with its own, which is to say, energy that vibrates at a similar frequency. Any emotionally painful experience can be used as food by the pain-body. That’s why it thrives on negative thinking as well as drama in relationships. It may be shocking when you realize for the first time that there is something within you that periodically seeks emotional negativity, seeks unhappiness. you need even more awareness to see it in yourself than to recognize it in another person. Once the unhappiness has taken you over, not only do you not want an end to it, but you want to make others just as miserable as you are in order to feed on their negative reactions. In most people, the pain-body has a dormant and an active stage. When it is dormant, you easily forget that you carry a heavy dark cloud or a dormant volcano inside you, depending on the energy field of your particular pain-body. How long it remains dormant varies from person to person: A few weeks is the most common, but it can be a few days or months. In rare cases the pain-body can lie in hibernation for years before it gets triggered by some event. The pain-body awakens from its dormancy when it gets hungry, when it is time to replenish itself. Alternatively, it may get triggered by an event at any time. The pain-body that is ready to feed can use the most insignificant event as a trigger, something somebody says or does, or even a thought. If you live alone or there is nobody around at the time, the pain-body will feed on your thoughts. Suddenly, your thinking becomes deeply negative. You were most likely unaware that just prior to the influx of negative thinking a wave of emotion invaded your mind–as a dark and heavy mood, an anxiety or fiery anger. All thought is energy and the pain-body is now feeding on the energy of your thoughts. But it cannot feed on any thought. You don’t need to be particularly sensitive to notice that a positive thought has a totally different feeling-tone than a negative one. It is the same energy, but it vibrates at a different frequency. A happy, positive thought is indigestible to the pain-body. It can only feed on negative thoughts because only those thoughts are compatible with its own energy field. If there are other people around, preferably your partner or a close family member, the pain-body will attempt to provoke them–push their buttons, as the expression goes–so it can feed on the ensuing drama. Pain-bodies love intimate relationships and families because that is where they get most of their food. It is hard to resist another person’s pain-body that is determined to draw you into a reaction. Instinctively it knows your weakest, most vulnerable points. If it doesn’t succeed the first time, it will try again and again. It is raw emotion looking for more emotion. The other person’s pain-body wants to awaken yours so that both pain-bodies can mutually energize each other. Some people carry dense pain-bodies that are never completely dormant. They may be smiling and making polite conversation, but you do not need to be psychic to sense that seething ball of unhappy emotion in them just underneath the surface, waiting for the next event to react to, the next person to blame or confront, the next thing to be unhappy about. Their pain-bodies can never get enough, are always hungry. Sometimes people with such dense pain-bodies become activists fighting for a cause. The cause may indeed be worthy, and they are sometimes successful at first in getting things done; however, the negative energy that flows into what they say and do and their unconscious need for enemies and conflict tend to generate increasing opposition to their cause. Usually they also end up creating enemies within their own organization, because wherever they go, they find reasons for feeling bad, and so their pain-body continues to find exactly what it is looking for. There is a tendency in the news media in general, including television, to thrive on negative news. The popular tabloid press does not primarily sell news but negative emotion – food for the pain-body. The worse things get, the more excited the presenters become, and often the negative excitement is generated by the media itself. Pain-bodies just love it. From: https://mauihawaiitheworld.wordpress.com/2016/06/12/eckhart-tolle-the-pain-body-addiction-to-unhappiness/ Expressing negative emotions puts Leins and mortgages on one's awareness.

4-17-2019 42 Increasing Line 5 27 Nourishing A small bit from hexagram 42 line 5: True kindness is expressed in gratitude that comes from the heart as wonderment and enjoyment of the gifts of the Cosmos. It is not something a person can cultivate, because it is a spontaneous response to the constant stream of gifts and help that comes from the Cosmos.

I rarely get tired of watching and learning about stuff like this. These shorter clips are especially good for posting here because it's more watchable for everyone with limited time for exploring something new. 1200 x 2000 = 2,400,000 lbs. WOW! That's about the hauling capacity of 48 Semi trucks combined. It would be a huge undertaking with today's technology/capacity to move this thing in one piece.

@now is forever yeah, cacado at 0:46 made me laugh. ?

4-16-2019 11 Harmony/Peace/Prosperity Lines 1 and 6 18 Recognizing and Correcting the Causes of Decay Councils me to not mix together unrelated things and to drop being defensive for no reason.

I understand. Hope it's a productive trip. Be safe.

@zambize If you feel like it, it would be interesting if you logged into the forum about peak time and pick a subject to share your views on, off the cuff. Hopefully it would coincide with a time when I was here also.

I would like to see Emerald and Leo join forces. I think she would be great as a full time integration facilitator- moderator in the forum and her fixed presence would bring in more of the feminine to help balance things. From what I've seen their perspectives seem to be harmonious and she is very good at articulating ideas and interacting with others. But I know nothing of the business/money side of the equation.

You must learn control. I was just refering to myself. ?

@now is forever Butter as well.

@now is forever Time to bring out the Yoda teflon defense.

Once I heard the worst kind of not knowing is thinking that one already knows. I find myself there quite often but try to allow for some gaps in my know-it-all bullshit so a prybar can be gotten in there. Yeah, a little bit last night when I dug into his collection. I'm even-Steven this morning though,,, got other fish to fry. Maybe I'll put a little lemon juice on those,,,

@now is forever The YouTube below is the one I watched yesterday. He seems like a fairly reasonable person in it. Once I tap into his collection of podcasts though, I discover the guy seems to truly have an ax to grind. Says he doesn't want to debate any of it. He says he knows what he knows and that's the end of it. I step away from trying to resolve any disparities. Not just step away but run away. Like from a disturbed red wasp nest,,,

I may have spoke too soon. There are more disparities than I thought. This guy has a ton of videos like this. i may step back away.

@Alex bAlex I like this kind of stuff. It sounds like they expect to find a lot more with their new techniques. Went ahead and subscribed to his channel. I want to search and see if there is anything new I didn't know about regarding the underwater buildings and structures off the coast of India and Japan. Prehistoric Cultures,,,, Seems like there is another place in the Indian Ocean. Probably more discovered by now.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery. ? Somebody somewhere said.

You would probably find me in that category. I'm not looking for a relationship though. But I'll pitch in 2 cents worth since no one has. i agree it sometimes seems not very female friendly here. But this should be a good place to meet others because there are such a wide range of people here connected in a way that might allow synchronicity to occur easier. Do you go for things like astrology or I CHING in helping to find answers?

4-15-2019 27 Nourishing Line 6 24 Returning To paraphrase, the changing line councils how being on autopilot or existing in a mechanical way by default puts one in the service of the collective ego.

@Karla Good deal! I'm glad that you see a use for it and plan on using it. ???‍?

This was just a spontaneous idea last night. For a long time I never really understood what the superego stood for and even after a conceptual understanding was arrived at, the implications of it all took some time to take root. So my intention in emphasizing the meaning of super ego was to maybe help others along like I had been after coming to some understanding how in not dealing with the superego and inner criticism that goes with it, really deep inner work cannot take place. In an online course I was in before, there was a forum location called the 'kitchen' where it was considered ok to discuss things that we're off topic to the course. This was in the back of my mind. To create a space just for those of us who are keeping a jounal to post things that maybe somewhat arbitrary and might not go with one's Journal. But then after Leo's remark in his last video about teaching, I altered my idea to make it a practice teaching platform and "community kitchen"or "back porch". I meant for it to be open to all of us here keeping a Journal. This may end up being seen as not needed or redundant but I've thrown it out here anyway. So,,, to all Journalers, if you have something to share, please share. Or if someone thinks there is a need to stress a particular idea in relation to actualizing I invite you to jump up on the stump! ?

@David Hammond ok,,,, interesting,,,

@David Hammond no In Inquiry do you ever catch yourself feeding on negative energy in a subtle way?