12-30-2012, 02:09 PM
The album, IBE, transcribed through my nervous system....
This means that any perception or experience is going to change. To understand change, is to give way to the inevitability that the universe cannot be contained in any one belief or experience. So to find peace would not be in establishing awareness in the experience of change, but establishing awareness in something that does not change within each experience.
Since the beginning of the human race, we have always engaged the mind and the senses to perceive the world around us, and to recognize a relationship between the world and our own human interaction.
We begin this relationship at birth; in the first recognition of our growing sensory perceptions, we learn to recognize our parents. From them, we learn to recognize the world around us and from what we perceive of that, develop a relationship with that world through our experiences.
We all have experiences - that is what being human is all about. Yet, we do not always have the same experiences. What makes us so unique is our ability to integrate experience into life and to socialize with others and their experiences. We have the mind (or intellect) to take experience and integrate it into our perceptions of reality and improve(or clarify) our perception. To put it in other words, we can choose to evolve.
From the very beginning we have tried to see the world and ourselves in the best way we can. Everyone always, and at all times, does the very best they are capable of doing to live life in a way that will create happiness, or fulfillment through satisfaction. In retrospect it would appear that some do better than others, but the truth is we will try to do the best we can rather than to intentionally choose to create suffering in our lives.
We are always working towards our evolution. Whatever we recognize as our inspiration in this effort, lives in each one of us, in fact it lives in everything. It is the reason why we make choices to continue living rather than to stop where we are in our present experience and belief, thinking that there is no more to be experienced and no greater achievement to be had in our experiences of life. The evolution that we experience is in the way we learn to expand beyond the beliefs of one world perception and into another.
If you remember how you looked at the world when you were 5 years old, and then compare that with how you look at it now, there are probably a lot of things that you have learned since then. Obviously some of the things that you have learned have made it possible to see and do things that you couldn't at the age of 5. The changes that have taken place have been physical, intellectual and spiritual.
We get to where we are in our current perception of the world by the choices we make to integrate our past experience and perceptions in a way that will hopefully lead us to happiness. That is what is called intelligent effort. Happiness being relative, evolves into a more permanent foundation of "bliss" in the light of the evolving intellect as it finds a more expanded point of reference that transcends the relative illusions of changing beliefs.
Intelligence is not inherited, it is developed. It may appear that some are born with talents that surpass others but regardless of who we are, we all have within us the ability to make choices to develop what we have in any way we wish. What you believe has a dramatic affect on how you will choose to evolve, it has nothing to do with what family you were born into, or how much material wealth you have.
"The high mission of any art is, by its illusions, to foreshadow a higher universe reality, to crystallize the emotions of time into the thought of eternity."
This means that any perception or experience is going to change. To understand change, is to give way to the inevitability that the universe cannot be contained in any one belief or experience. So to find peace would not be in establishing awareness in the experience of change, but establishing awareness in something that does not change within each experience.
Since the beginning of the human race, we have always engaged the mind and the senses to perceive the world around us, and to recognize a relationship between the world and our own human interaction.
We begin this relationship at birth; in the first recognition of our growing sensory perceptions, we learn to recognize our parents. From them, we learn to recognize the world around us and from what we perceive of that, develop a relationship with that world through our experiences.
We all have experiences - that is what being human is all about. Yet, we do not always have the same experiences. What makes us so unique is our ability to integrate experience into life and to socialize with others and their experiences. We have the mind (or intellect) to take experience and integrate it into our perceptions of reality and improve(or clarify) our perception. To put it in other words, we can choose to evolve.
From the very beginning we have tried to see the world and ourselves in the best way we can. Everyone always, and at all times, does the very best they are capable of doing to live life in a way that will create happiness, or fulfillment through satisfaction. In retrospect it would appear that some do better than others, but the truth is we will try to do the best we can rather than to intentionally choose to create suffering in our lives.
"Follow your Bliss" - Joseph Campbell
"Effort does not always produce joy, but there is no happiness without intelligent effort. "
"Effort does not always produce joy, but there is no happiness without intelligent effort. "
We are always working towards our evolution. Whatever we recognize as our inspiration in this effort, lives in each one of us, in fact it lives in everything. It is the reason why we make choices to continue living rather than to stop where we are in our present experience and belief, thinking that there is no more to be experienced and no greater achievement to be had in our experiences of life. The evolution that we experience is in the way we learn to expand beyond the beliefs of one world perception and into another.
If you remember how you looked at the world when you were 5 years old, and then compare that with how you look at it now, there are probably a lot of things that you have learned since then. Obviously some of the things that you have learned have made it possible to see and do things that you couldn't at the age of 5. The changes that have taken place have been physical, intellectual and spiritual.
We get to where we are in our current perception of the world by the choices we make to integrate our past experience and perceptions in a way that will hopefully lead us to happiness. That is what is called intelligent effort. Happiness being relative, evolves into a more permanent foundation of "bliss" in the light of the evolving intellect as it finds a more expanded point of reference that transcends the relative illusions of changing beliefs.
Intelligence is not inherited, it is developed. It may appear that some are born with talents that surpass others but regardless of who we are, we all have within us the ability to make choices to develop what we have in any way we wish. What you believe has a dramatic affect on how you will choose to evolve, it has nothing to do with what family you were born into, or how much material wealth you have.
"The evolving soul is not made divine by what it does, but by what it strives to do."
IN BETWEEN EVOLUTION