B MIND

One thing we know about the state of busyness: it’s the product of a distracted mind.


/////////////SELF - The question is not whether or not the person, personality or ego is a changing, composite train of events conditioned by many complex factors

HIPPOCAMPUS STAYS AND ACCRUES


/////////////////////Notice-Shift-Rewire that we have developed in our work with busy professionals.

• The key is to first Notice when you’re caught in the state of busyness.
• The next step is to Shift gears and bring your attention back to the present moment by focusing on the task at hand.
• The final step is to Rewire, savoring the experience of being fully engaged in what you’re doing.

////////////////////////Carve out “stimulus-free” moments — Listening to podcasts, news, audiobooks, and other piecemeal bits of multimedia can distract us from the task at hand. If you notice that your day is full of stimulation — that you rarely, if ever, give yourself space to breathe and just “be” — it can be helpful to carve out moments to unplug from your devices and savor some silence.

///////////////////////Think carefully about pain and suffering and ask yourself who or what it is that is suffering. Who is afraid of what will happen; who feels bad about what has happened; why does death seem such a threat when the present disappears every moment, scarcely having had a chance to arise? You will find that your thinking is full of contradictions, inconsistencies and irresolvable paradoxes

//////////////////////ANATTA  ANITTA DUKKHA Three Marks of Existence

Clearly, in order to end one's own suffering, there is nothing more important than to realize that when one acts as if the body and mind constituted a lasting, separate, independent self, one unthinkingly attributes to them qualities which they simply do not have. Nothing in the whole stream of mental and physical phenomena that constitute one's experience of body and mind has the quality of separate, independent, lasting existence. It is all change and impermanence, moment by moment and so none of it can be 'self and it is one's persistent effort to treat it as if it were, that makes it a constant stream of suffering (duhkha).

////////////////////// EGO DISSOLN 

The Empty Blue
by Jack Saxelby Smith

  

What is this strange form?
A tongue to taste,
coloured oceans that see
and pull in memories.

What is this form?
Vines of hair swing across my face.
When I look in so tenderly,patiently,
a different world appears
one beyond the identity
I’ve carved for so many years,
out of stone so cold and empty
but with which the very air gives life to.

What is this strange form of blue mist with no end?
above my head an empty land.
Oh vast ocean of waterless space,
you break this stone
into pieces that dissolve,
and let me know
I really am nothing.

///////////////////////Let All Your Thoughts and Emotions

Work For You, Not Against You

Sadhguru says, "Whether you have anger, hatred, jealousy or resentment against someone, essentially, it only works against you."

//////////////////POISON ARROW PARABLE

The Buddha always told his disciples not to waste their time and energy in metaphysical speculation. Whenever he was asked a metaphysical question, he remained silent. Instead, he directed his disciples toward practical efforts. Questioned one day about the problem of the infinity of the world, the Buddha said, "Whether the world is finite or infinite, limited or unlimited, the problem of your liberation remains the same." Another time he said, "Suppose a man is struck by a poisoned arrow and the doctor wishes to take out the arrow immediately. Suppose the man does not want the arrow removed until he knows who shot it, his age, his parents, and why he shot it. What would happen? If he were to wait until all these questions have been answered, the man might die first." Life is so short. It must not be spent in endless metaphysical speculation that does not bring us any closer to the truth

//////////////////////////ANATTA

THE DREAM EXAMPLE The Buddha often used the example of a dream to illustrate his teachings on emptiness and this example can be applied with increasing subtlety at each stage of the meditation progression on Emptiness. It is a good example for showing how the two truths, relative and absolute, work together. In a dream there is a sense of being a person with a body and mind living in a world of things to which one feels attracted or averse depending on how they appear. As long as one does not realize it is just a dream, one takes all these things as real and one feels happy or"sad on account of them.

/////////////////Healthcare Workers 3.4 Times More Likely to Test Positive for COVID-19

/////////////////psychologists Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert found that we spend around 47 per cent of our day mind wandering — lost in thoughts about past and future.

////////////// DOER ME V KNOWER ME 

One should begin one's investigation with these very common sense notions of 'I' and 'I, the doer' or 'I, the experiencer'. 

////////////// Afrofuturist Octavia E. Butler wrote, “The only lasting truth is Change.”

/////////////////////5 SKANDHAS OR HEAPS 

In order to carry out this investigation as systematically as possible Buddhist teachers have organized experience into a number of comprehensive sets of categories. One of these sets of categories is called the five skandhas, which literally means the five heaps. They are called heaps because, looked at dispassionately, all our experience arises moment by moment as isolated, impersonal events. After they have arisen, so soon after that it seems simultaneous, we become emotionally involved and create a whole scenario of 'self versus 'world' or 'other'. The five skandhas are;

 l. form, 2. feeling, 3. perception, 4. mental constructions, 5. consciousnesses.