Open-Secrets

Author: John

  • True Knowledge – Knowledge of the True

    True_knowledgeWhat is True Knowledge?

    If you use Google ranking to help you understand what’s what – true knowledge is a pioneer in a new class of Internet search technology…

    Well, that’s not the type of true knowledge we’re talking about here. The problem with topics like true knowledge is everyone has their beliefs, ideas and thoughts about it. These are mostly subjective, based on limited or ordinary knowledge, and little or no connection to the realm of objective reality.

    Well, I’ve put my foot in it now! Objective Reality – another concept that everyone has ideas and beliefs about!

    I guess the simplest way out of this conundrum of true knowledge is that it is possible to know what is true – whether that knowing is in the relative world of knowledge or in the objective world of reality.

    Objective reality would be what you perceive when the ego/subjective I is transparent to reality as IT IS – nothing filtered through the past – no reification.

    True Knowledge can be perceived, known and felt. It can guide our lives and reveal the path to optimal living and being. The first step seems to be the same as many first steps on many journeys – from knowing into not-knowing.

    Not Knowing is fertile ground for knowledge.

     

    [ad#post468]

  • Ego Defenses

    Ego defensesWhat are some ego defenses?

    This is not your ordinary Freudian list of ego defenses. Freud’s list of ego defenses looks something like this:

    • Denial, Repression, and Suppression
    • Displacement and Sublimation
    • Projection and Intellectualization
    • Rationalization
    • Regression
    • Reaction Formation

    The difference in these two lists of ego defenses is that one concerns itself with the ego’s defense against anxiety seeking equilibrium for an ego sense of self, while the other list is more oriented around the ego defending itself from the intrusion of Being.

    Rare is the teacher that can take a student beyond the anxiety and terror of ego dissolution and into the emptiness that offers the opportunity for one’s true nature to arise.

    Just this past week, while attending some advanced training on narcissism, I got wondering about pain (emotional and psychological). Why do we avoid it? Exactly what is psychological and emotional pain?

    It’s said that all emotional and psychological pain is caused by separation from Being.

    It all boils down to – Who are you taking yourself to be?

     

    [ad#post468]

  • Time in the Moment

    Time-momentTime is rushing

    From everywhere

    All directions

    Inside and out

    Past – future

    Physical time

    Emotional time

    Psychological time

    Time

    Is a single

    Moment

     

    [ad#post468]

  • Devastation – Ruin of the Heart

    Devastation-ruin-heart

    The road to devastation

    Takes many forms

    Insignificance

    Is another’s greatest calamity

    Don’t judge the result

    By the route

    The devastated know

    Total

    Is

    Total

    J Harper

    The way of love is not a subtle argument.

    The door there is devastation.

    Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom.

    How do they learn it?

    They fall, and falling, they’re given wings.

    Rumi

    [ad#post468]

  • Price for Peace

    Dreamstime_5592260The price for peace

    Is your life of

    Pain & suffering

    Worry & agitation

    Fear & emptiness

    Petty thoughts & needs

    The dull drab monotonous

    No wonder

    So few

    Are willing

    To pay

     

    [ad#post468]

  • Mind & Soul

    Mind-soulThe problem with in-laws

    Is the concern

    For their family values

    Not you

    The mind’s orientation

    Toward the soul

    Is similar

     

    [ad#post468]

Open-Secrets