Is There a Process of Being?

What is the nature of my process? How does my process relate to pleasure and pain? How may I cooperate with my process?

Abundant Life (IMHO of this day)

Ignorance is the way of want. Ignorance of the practice of equality, justice, respect, honor, and love pave a speedy road to want. Want is lack.


Ignorance is the way to degeneration and strife. What is a way to abundant life?


The understanding and and practice of love moves one to abundant life very well. Love is a good way. How is love understood? How is love practiced? It's a process. One could begin by getting clear about some meanings. Improve and extend your understanding of equality, justice, respect, and honor among men. Understanding the the interactions among the practice of law, justice, and equality as components of love helps. Knowing that love includes the best of respect and honor helps. Knowing that the heart of love is joyous nurturance is necessary. Learning that respectful, even reverent, nurturance makes love real, is vital.


A reader of the Bible may find help in getting on this road by noting that Jesus said that his purpose was to bring us abundant life. And then by going on to study the page or two of teachings after he says to love your God. There he points to the nature of love, He points to the knowledge and practice of love. He points to the process of learning to love. He tells the essentials and extent of doing it well. The readers must study, contemplate, and meditate well on his parables and examples. H makes it easy to begin.

Self-Awareness

I suspect that some self-awareness is good for me, perhaps very good.

Maybe I can stir my interest in developing self-awareness by trying to stir your interests. Perhaps in trying to persuade you I can persuade myself.

The process of gaining self-awareness has seemed a bit revolutionary to me. I'm not sure why. Maybe it has something to do with my understanding of 'self' seeming slippery.

Anyway, I am convinced that ignorance is a great danger to me and to all mankind. Awareness seems akin to knowing, understanding, illumination and the like; so may stand in opposition to ignorance. Awareness also seems like that alertness which keeps me from falling into a hole.

Configurations of energy have a growing part in my understanding of being. Energy seems to be a part of self. Are you thinking a bit more about self-awareness yet? I am.

Maybe there are some questions which can motivate us to act on our stirrings of interest. Motivation seems to be a component of self, doesn't it. Stirring is an evidence of energy, isn't it?

Are you thinking of something to say about self-awareness?

What might we say about 'self,' 'awareness,' or 'self-awareness?'

How is motivation connect to self? How is it connected to awareness?

Some people think of questions like these are attractive little doors you can open and look through to new and beautiful happenings. Some people thing of them as part of a string that they can take hold of and follow to healthful doings and understandings.

What suggestions have sages of old made about self-knowledge? How does knowing differ from awareness? How is it the same?

Why might expanding our awareness be good for us? How might that include self-awareness?

What process of evolution might we note in our life. What revolution? What patterns of activity might we note in our life?

What part might our understanding of 'opposits' play in our life?

What sort of reality can we see through pairs of opposites?

What does awareness have to do with creativity?

How might we observe a creative process within ourselves? Why would we think that there is one to observe?

What does creativity have to do with awareness.

Instead of motivating myself I may have overwhelmed myself. Well, just in formulating these questions I have stimulated a flow of meaning around their 'subjects' and objects.' Maybe if I sit down with one of them for a time I'll come to see an attractive little door or the end of a little string to follow.

Knowing

I believe that that knowing is a process as believing is a process. Believing and knowing are very probably part of one reality. I believe that realizing is a very similar process. I believe that experiencing the process is more important than the word.


I believe that their are qualities of knowing which might be named: good, better, and best.


I bet that I can list more than 17 phrases which point usefully to parts of the process of knowing:
~ Attend to the wise men of the past.
~ Decide to honor and value your Personal experience.
~ Be aware of trying and attempting.
~ Intend to understand.
~ Observe your trials and attempts and attempts and the ensuing results.
~ Consider the nature of a wise man.
~ Attend to and focus on here and now happenings.
~ Evaluate the rules, principles and laws you use.
~ Review your memory of previous evaluations and happenings.
~ Improve your understanding of evidence.
~ Allow your imagination to create using true to life facts and the your best rules, laws, and principles.
~ Attend to degree of probability.
~ Be alert to ways of knowing.
~ Attend to reasoning and rationality.
~ Recognize your use of ways of knowing.
~ Embrace and honor your knowing.
~ Evaluate witnesses, experts, and documentation.
~ Quantify data when you can.
~ Check to see if doing the 'same' thing gets the 'same' results.
~ Be grateful for your power and tools.


I don't have any more phrases in mind just now, so it seems time to count. If you found a useful phrase, you may thank me. I will thank you if you add a phrase. I count twenty. How many do you think are good. Which one do you believe is good. Which one are you closest to knowing is good?

democracy

There is a lot to be said for democracy. I'll begin by saying a little of it.


I tend to think of democracy as a target and as a process.


Democracy means 'government by the people at large.' It means rule by the common people. Whoever 'the people' is, democracy is government and rule by all of them.
How might such a thing be done?


I don't know anyone who has seen such a government. Still, I like the idea and believe that it is a good thing to shoot for. I'm not talking about war. I'm just suggesting that it seems a decent way to direct ones civic activities. Directions in ones activities often proves useful.


A democracy does not necessarily call for majorities or votes. It is a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly. It may be carried out in a variety of ways.


Democracy is a way of doing things that keeps power with the people. For some it may be an ongoing process of democratization. For me, it is the measure of my government.

Power

There is power.
You have some.
Take charge of it.
Get better at directing it.
Recognize it.


Power manifests as movement.
You can detect movement.
You have all you need to detect enough of it.
You can detect it.
You can recognize it.


Power is everywhere.
It is inside and outside.
It is above and below.


The power in you seems to vary.
You may feel a vibration within your body.
Or feel a movement finer than a vibration.
You may feel it in certain areas.
You may feel it along your spine.
You are aware of flexing your arm, of running.


You may have felt the power of your car as a kind of vibration.
The car may become mobile with power.
You can learn to drive.


There is a power with which you think.
That power worked before you thought about it.


You can learn to direct you thinking.
You may, for example, purposefully think rationally or logically.


You may note that your ability to detect power is less than perfect.
You may know that your ability to see, touch, smell power is less than perfect.
You may have heard talk of atom power without having heard the actual power.


Have you thought of tree power?
Have you detected the movement of that power? the process?
Have you seen the actual power?
You know something of the power of burning wood.


You may known that your vision of the tree is not a true vision of tree power. It may not be a true vision of treeness.
You understand that there is more to reality than your vision of tree.


Your ability to understand and use power can improve. You do not have to perfect it. It is likely to get a bit better on its own.


There are those who purposefully learn to better know and use the force with which the function.
There is an ongoing tendency to do so; something like growing up.
That ongoing tendency is a process with which one may learn to cooperate.


Not to fight against the process may be wise.
There is a functioning force with which a caterpillar becomes a butterfly.
The butterfly seems to go with the flow and so may we.


Cooperation is a human way of dealing with power.


What can you and I learn about cooperation, 

Knowledge

~ I ready to learn a great deal more about how I am motivated here.
~ I would learn of my energy and forms of expression here.
~ I am willing to know what is meant by inner force today.
~  I am ready to learn o know that I have a a great deal to learn here.
~ I am ready to learn to better understand how images are abstracted from dynamic reality here.
~ I m ready to learn to better realize  energy configuration here.
~ I am ready to learn to better base my system of values on my best understanding of reality here.
~ I am ready to learn to better turn my attention to the energy in a force center here.
~ I am ready to learn to function better in the absences of images here.
~ I am ready to learn to better understand that energy does its own configuring here.
~ I am ready to learn to better know what it means to say that the energy develops its own faculties of perception here.
~ I am ready to learn to be certain that m change, growth, and development takes place whether I am conscious of it or not here.
~ I am ready to learn to understand the process.
~ I am ready to learn to intelligently cooperate with a process of my choosing here.
~ I understand here that here are five energy centers associated with the vegus nerve.
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Democracy

Let's define what we mean by democracy a little more clearly these days.
By let's I mean let us. By us I mean 'we the people,' 'American citizens,' and others interested in democracy.
Below, find the word 'comments' and click on that word to find the spot to leave your comment.


You can search this blog and my other blogs to find what I have posted about democracy.


For now, I begin our sharing by saying that I see democracy as a target and as a process. 

Meditation Related to Thoughtful Talk

Our Our language is natural to us. It activates meaning in each of us. We describe that meaning.

We know that context contributes to meaning. Context is our understanding of our experience. Meaning depends upon our interpretation of our experience. We can talk about context, meaning, experience.

Meaning moving in my mind is influenced by my experience and upon my interpretation of that experience. I am pleased to make some of m experience purposeful. My purposeful experience may include attempts, tries, conscious interpretations. I am othen aware of my doing. I may consider the nature of my doing.

We may tend to experience a "thing" as a kind of unchanging object when we know that it is really a snap-shot of a process in action. We consider how we understand a process.