Interacting with the world on a physical level

[Bodhi Greenman]

I have to add this because this is so funny.

I saw this week when I admit things about myself, or do things that make me uncomfortable ... how my ego is challenged it doesn't like it and it shrinks away.

So here is something I have never told anyone.

I was at a Yoga festival last year, busy about my own stuff watching people (in my opinion) doing some pretty dumb things and whilst I was walking around congratulating myself on how awake I was, and at the same time internally criticizing these people for being so unconscious ..... I walked into the over hanging limb of a tree.

I think God sent me a message. It was a great moment of awareness.

[James Parkinson]

Gurdjieff would probably call that machinery--self-justification machinery. If he wouldn't I would. It seems odd to me that when I verify the truth I always seem to have a need to justify it by quoting some great person. As if the person made the truth true. We're nuts. All of us in here and all of the yous out there.

[Bodhi Greenman]

I get this and I also recognise that this thing has some kind of marvelous self justification mechanism for all the stupid things I get to do.

[James Parkinson]

One other thing. When I admit things about myself the ego finds a way to take credit for it and revel in the glory of the realization. It's such a whore it gives ladies of the evening a bad name.

[James Parkinson]

We need more trees. It would certainly help to keep me from doing the same thing on a daily basis. Well, for a little while anyway. It would find a way around it I'm sure. Probably start a new school all about walking into trees and how that was a sign of enlightenment. There is no end to the insanity. It can't be fixed. We must leave it. At least that's how it looks to me this morning from this particular vantage point.