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WillowBear's Amble: I didn't play my drum today, and wonder why |
Category: Thoughts 6 comments
25 May 2002 @ 22:27 by magical_melody : Ben, I think you nailed it! 26 May 2002 @ 02:10 by shawa : No constructs, oh hum...Gadzook! Isn´t everything a "construct" - starting with everything in here, because we depend on "the squiggles on the screen"? So the problem would be - would it not - what kind of squiggles do we choose to share and for what reason.What squiggles have real energy behind them, and what squiggles are just empty little spider files ? I´m sorry to bring that up, and maybe I overstep ;-), but isn´t every thing a "construct", apart from the contents of the enlightenment experience? And do you think it is bad karma to be with the unenlightened, sharing bread ? 26 May 2002 @ 02:13 by kay : Hi Ben I am responding from two different levels. One from just reading your words and thinking to myself, I like this person. He is being so honest. But then there is this other side of me. The real life part that has had no experience at all in real life with someone like you. I mean if I were to encounter you and your music on the street, what would I do? Would I be afraid because you are different or would I stop and listen to your music. I come from a small southern town of about 600 people and we are all the same, thinking and doing the same things. I moved to Tucson, Arizona three years ago and It has been hard shifting to multi-lane roads and traffic and shopping malls and big super markets and so much diversity in cultures. But I love it. I love the different. So I would like to believe of myself that If I were out walking and came upon you with your music that I would stop and let the child in me out to play and maybe even dance a bit. Is the value of cyber space to introduce us to the 'different' so that when we find it in real time we will stop to listen and interact and not walk away? I would like to think so. You didn't play your music today. Were you waiting for me to show up? The 'me' being someone different. Someone who could hear in a different way. If I were to pick up two cups of coffee and walk by your house and sit on the porch step would you play the recorder for just one person. I would close my eyes and just dream an sip on coffee and offer you the second one. In real life would I really do this? Yeah, I think I just might. I think I would know a good Soul when I meet up with one. 26 May 2002 @ 08:24 by invictus : I'm with you on this one... I'm not 100% sure where I stand intellectually on this point; Shakti has a good point. It's not bad karma to "share bread"; it can be very educational, and rewarding in its own way. But it's harder to be authentic and get what you need out of the bread when you're the only one trying. So I think there's room for both. In practical terms, I completely hear what you're saying. My current social structure is suffocating for some authenticity. Half of it seems to be that my friends are so busy being normal that they just can't trouble themselves to be real. I wish I could find my local group of Indigo children :). 27 May 2002 @ 10:50 by magical_melody : Ben, are you in the Gateway? This question has come twice now? I have seen your style of writing in posts and it zonked me over the head today to ask? Also, you sound like you are being hard on yourself. Seems the bread metaphor could be speaking volumes about Manna and community. Peace, Magical Melody 28 May 2002 @ 10:36 by cho : Breaking bread "Constructs" are, necessarily, not simple. Given the flow of time, the construct I'm dealing with today is different than it was when I related to it yesterday ... or I'm different ... or both. So it's interesting to relate to something that came together in a situation that was clear. Here is such a heap, something that came together for me just after a very complex and dynamic social/political situation reached its resolution (and I found myself with a lot more time on my hands!); from [link] "A side-note: those who would see themselves empowered as leaders are careful not to enter into relations that would empower or enable those they see themselves leading; the personas they develop and adopt serve, on one hand, as uniforms that distinguish them from mere groundlings (also useful for identifying themselves to those with similar inclinations) and, on the other, as scripts that diminish the likelihood of their straying into authenticity under the influence of benevolent circumstances." When I think of the times I've been blind-sided or sand-bagged by someone acting on a basis of some blithely self-declared enlightenment, it makes me shudder at the thought of ever straying from the mass of humanity I find on the street and in the market! *What just came to mind was Christ roaming the streets, market squares, and alleys.* Other entries in Thoughts 7 Jan 2003 @ 22:43: "Why do we continue to hurt one another?" 17 Aug 2002 @ 07:44: Antidote to commoditization: affection 7 Aug 2002 @ 19:45: Establishing truth by intimidation
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25 May 2002 @ 15:36, by Ben Tremblay