Zigzag Idiot

The tone of your conversation. What does it tell you? Can people be too serious? Yes. Am I too irreverent? At times, yes. What does it cost me? Credibility. What does seriousness do for us? It makes us brittle and self-important. I’ve always been too serious except for when I express myself with the written word. Martin Butler recently pointed out how it’s somewhat dangerous to speak about expressing negatively and the subsequent results. People truly do not see themselves but yet they know themselves better than they know others. Here’s the catch,,, We all have a blind spot that other people can see better than we can. This adds to our feeling of knowing. Some people are absolutely certain about their own awareness and will not consider the perspective I’m bringing, out of a deeply entrenched fear. It’s a mistake to force these people or insist in some way, that they listen. Self inquiry is just that. Work on yourself, not others. This message pushes the boundaries a little bit doesn’t it? Root causes and the effects of cynicism contrasted with lightheartedness,,,,,,, Something I often think about. That’s all for now.

FYi Dog-pecker gnats are different from fleas and chiggers. Chiggers are the worst. For humans with tender skin, they're awful. They’re so small you rarely see them. Fleas are at least 10 times bigger than chiggers. Dog-pecker gnats are a species unto themselves and are just a tad larger than fleas. Ticks are blood-suckers that aggravate country folks. Ticks hitch rides on mammals and grow until they reach the size of a peanut m&m. Ticks spread Lyme disease and others diseases. A friend of a friend picked tics and saved them until he had a large jar of the big juicy dog ticks. On the last day of school, he poured them down the hallway so they could be enjoyed and stepped on by all the jubilant schoolchildren excited for the arrival of summer vacation.

Nonconceptual awareness or objectless awareness is a state that occurs briefly and intermittently when practicing Centering Prayer as taught by some among the Christian contemplatives. Please pardon my intrusion.

I like this idea. I have yet to use AI but have watched a few YouTubes on the emergence of different AI models that have come out. Perhaps an introduction of AI for newbies who aren’t tech savvy,,, @Leo Gura perhaps your take on the many different areas of application which will affect the lives of people profoundly in the near future,,,, Effects on education overall,,, Employment - unemployment Law and constitutional- rights of privacy The joining together robotics, nanotechnologies, and AI Approach of Universal basic income and Digital dollar ?

Sycophant noun ˈsi-kə-fənt Definition of sycophant as in flunkey a person who flatters another in order to get ahead be careful not to mistake sycophants for true friends Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance flunkey bootlicker flunkie toady lickspittle suck-up minion brownnoser fan henchman parasite flunky devotee admirer sponge slave yes-man fawner apple-polisher pupil partisan idolator disciple apparatchik hanger-on worshiper lackey I’m curious why ‘ass-kisser’ wasn’t listed,,,? Rather crude but seems synonymous. I became interested in this word because I’ve always been susceptible to flattery. Seeking approval from others and receiving approval, admiration, compliments etc.,, is a component of my shadow. My insecurities or need to be reassured which is linked to the condition of doubt/fear. Enneatype six, counterphobic Two parts- my insecurity which seeks reassurance. my overconfident self which will flatter others as a way to gain their approval or loyalty maybe,,,?

Precept Note: See how this word/phrase promotes dualistic analysis Dictionary Definitions from Oxford Languages · noun: precept; plural noun: precepts 1. a general rule intended to regulate behavior or thought. "the legal precept of being innocent until proven guilty" What is a precept in simple words? A precept is a rule or direction, often with some religious basis, dictating a way you should act or behave. Precepts are little life lessons that are usually passed down to children by authority figures such as parents, teachers, or religious figures.

Weekly planner Sunday A day to rest, Sideways Sunday. Spend some time horizontal in bed, on couch or stretched out on the ground. It feels good to lay on the earth. Monday It’s all about responsibility. Pay bills, etc.. Tuesday Wear your coonskin cap day. Local bowling alley closed down. Bummer,,,, Wednesday Throw horseshoes and use mouthwash. Thursdays A day devoted to considering a life more oriented towards chastity, scholarship and good nutrition. Considering is enough. To admit with brutal honesty that I’m the way I am and see no use in wasting effort the other 6 days of the week being torn over these matters. Good enough. Friday T.G.I.F. Let’s bust some glass!!! Feels good. Maybe some old dishes or something,,, Also, reflect some. Do I need to take care of any business at weeks end? Saturday Wild card day! Jokers wild! Go bananas yet remain my expressionless, deadpan self. I may not show it but inside, in my inner world,,,, Life is better than it was twenty years ago. I’m more content and grateful. If the spirit moves me. Speak my truth. Even if it’s cringeworthy.

A talk Almaas gave over 30 years ago. “MOST SPIRITUAL PATHS, including the Diamond Approach, involve a certain paradox of realization. We practice, we do exercises, we become responsible for our own liberation, and, at the same time, we know from our experience that realization often happens without being directly connected to the practices that we engage. By exploring this paradox, we can come to understand the relationship between our own intention to wake up and the action of grace. We can come to appreciate the relationship between our own responsibility for our experience and the view that God or Being or true nature makes freedom happen." - A. H. Almaas, Runaway Realization, ch. 1

Maurice Nicoll was the first to be given permission from both Gurdjieff and Ouspensky to become a Teacher of “The Work”.He passed up the opportunity to study with Carl Jung and instead went to France and spent a year with Gurdjieff. Nicoll was a Scottish physician. I get amused at his describing how prevalent self deception is,,,, I well know as a medical psychologist the awkward point where I had to say to the patient: ‘Yes—I can see you have been badly treated, never appreciated, never properly understood. You have told me all that very clearly. But do you think that it is possible that you are not quite the ideal person that you seem to imagine yourself to be, and that there may be some quite serious faults in yourself?’ Now you can all imagine the haughty look, the frozen smile, the magnificent rising from the chair—and the slamming of the door—without, of course, the fee being paid. Yes—but what has happened. . . What has been touched? What would you call it? Whatever you call it, it is this factor that prevents self-change...If he sees for himself something of this factor in him, which is so formidable and the source of so much violence, then it is not aroused antagonistically. He sees himself: he begins to accept what he would never have accepted from another. It is in this way that the Work deals with this otherwise intractable factor in Man.” V. 3, pp. 1165-1166 Another excerpt from Nicoll,,,, COMPASSION II “It is impossible to endure one another’s unpleasant manifestations in the right sense of the meaning of the word unless we see our own unpleasant manifestations and know them and accept them...(We) begin to realize our own helplessness, so we can endure the helpless- ness of others.” V. 3, p. 832 From Psychological Commentaries On the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky by Maurice Nicoll

Mental health one-liners Neurosis- It's when you apologize too much for being horrible. It's almost like humility. Innocence feels almost like when you have no conscience. Stupidity can be experienced as constipated reason. Exhaustion is a wonderful help for not reacting passionately about anything. Stupidity and exhaustion can merge minus anger and the experience can be similar to peace of mind. Understanding is the prime ingredient for any state of consciousness that feels royal, supreme and common.

We're all somewhere on the scale of crazy We all have different masks that we wear. Don't we? Consider the small muscles of the face,,, Sometimes you might notice a certain tension in your face. Maybe your concentrating on a detail oriented task. Or perhaps you're in a restaurant and happen to notice a baby being fed one spoon after another by her mother but the child is resistant. This produces that phenomena where by watching you start opening your mouth as the mother opens her mouth while putting the spoon closer the child's face. In both instances, you are in a state of identification. In how many ways can we be identified? I would wager that it would be limited and not endless but none the less a very high number. I may be wrong ,,, I don't know for sure. Throw in intensity of identification which would indicate a deeper state of "attachment" or more shallow state of being identified. I'm not a very expressive person outwardly and by nature, I'm more introverted than extroverted. But the sometimes exaggerated or hyperbolic way I express the attitude of my inner world, often with a degree of irreverence. This makes for a problem for some people who have known me all my life but really don't know me. In the last 20 years I've experienced an inward transformation of sorts but there are still many character flaws that crop up. In actualizing one's potential there are many possibilities in both vertical growth and horizontal growth. As far as I can tell, there is no perfect person achievement award to be had, but there can be an inner quiet that formerly was rarely felt. This inner quiet has a quality of Self remembrance connected with it. But not always,,,, Everyone of us has to move out of the condition of being an unguided Gollum, of sorts. Gollum was very identified with the ring. with "precious", in Lord of the Rings. "Conscious suffering is the medicine to make the automaton surrender to the permanent witness," -Ocke de Boer From there one must self initiate and bring the mind into the heart.

Eschatology is the study of the end of the world, the end of human history, or the end of the current age. It is a branch of theology that deals with beliefs about death, judgment, and the final fate of humankind. The term eschatology comes from the Greek words eschato(s), which means "last", and -logy. It was first recorded between 1835 and 1845. Eschatology is a topic of interest in many religions, including Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. In Christianity, eschatology is concerned with the Second Coming of Christ, the resurrection of the dead, and the Last Judgment. For example, Christians believe that Jesus' sacrifice and resurrection will lead to the resurrection of believers on the Last Day. The concept of eschatology has also been applied to the religions of nonliterate peoples, ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cultures, and Eastern civilizations.

Dave Chapelle is extremely intelligent .His willingness to say anything combined with a capacity for mimicry that,,,,, what is it? His mimicry is an act of embodiment. No? Makes him hilarious anyway.