I Would Sense, Percieve, Understand, and Speak Well

Do you see what you are looking at?

Would you truly see what you look at?

Would you store in your memory that which is right?

Would you have your mind grow in balance and purity?

Would you use your eyes rightly?

Would you have right understanding?

What would you know of your inner eye?

Could one contact a law of sight through meditation?

How is your word power?

How might you better benefit from silence?

Could one more properly understand and rightly use sound?

What sound impresses your mind?

Would you let the sound which comes through your throat be in accord with what you know to be true?

Would you know when to be silent?

Until one knows better, one does well to avoid:

~ speaking until it is worth while

~ slander

~ petty, small talk

~ malice of speech.

Do speak:

~ honestly

~ what you know to be the truth

Wise men have believed that: 

~ Words become flesh and that you utter the truth that frees you.

~ Your consciousness is the heart of you

~ It is okay to be happy and grateful.

~ It is good to attend to joy and reverence

~ Men deserve responsibility and light.

~ Help is available.

Way to Talk

It seems to me that we can benefit from learning a more productive way to talk about that which is important to us.

If you were here I'd ask you to help me name various ways of talking.

Debate is one of them. I think of it as a bit like war. One important aim of debate is winning. The idea seems to be to best an opponent. Producing a win is not the kind of production which interests me here.

My aim in the kind of talk which interests me here is to better understand those with whom I converse. I want to understand them and their views on a deeper level. I want a better understanding of their values and assumptions. I want to better appreciate how they feel about it. I want to be clear about what it is.

I also want to be understood and appreciated.

Debate does not seem to be the best vehicle for such understanding.

Chat is another kind of talk. Chat may go on without dealing with views, values, or assumptions.

Conversation is a great kind of talk and I enjoy it greatly. However, our conversation may not deal well with strongly felt differences, and can lead to argument. Arguments may turn to debate or to verbal fight.

Discussion seems, like conversation, to be  kind of talk between chat and debate. Discussion seems to tend toward persuasion. It often includes the intent to persuade.

The purpose of of the kind of talk which interests me here is about persuasion. The way of talking which interests me here is not about persuasion. I am not interested in persuading or in being persuaded.

My purpose is to to understand and to, perhaps, be understood.

I have been calling this way to talk dialogue

Self Affirm

I seem to be reviewing a lot of my older affirmations these days. I guess that I am old enough to be reviewing my life. It's been amazing and wonderful. However, I am not yet fully perfected; so, I continue to affirm:
~ I am ready and willing to learn to be a bit more aware of a feeling of mine here.
~ I am ready to be a bit more aware of the nature of this emotion of of mine here.
~ I am ready to learn to know what it means to discover a greater sense of self today.
~ I am ready to learn to better know what it means to discover greater understanding of myself here.
~ I am ready to learn to remember here that I often discover best when I am not searching for something.
~ I am ready to learn to remember the limitations of my understanding of 'self' today.
~ I am ready to learn to better understand what it means to feel worthy here.
~ I am ready to learn to know the joy of my imperfection here.
~ I am ready to learn to remember here that I don't 'have to' anything.
~ I am ready to learn to expect to die or live here.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to let change in my life be based on conscious choice here.
~ I am willing to do it on purpose today.

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, 

Republicans and Democrats

We'd be better off if Republicans better understood Democrats and Democrats better understood Republicans.
There are people who say, "Oh, I understand them alright." and they do, at certain levels. However, many impasses can become passes when deeper assumptions are better understood. Good dialogue is one way to get to that understanding.

Navajo

Navajo, I'm just this old guy who thinks language is important who sometimes gives advice that nobody has asked for.

Learn your language. If you do, you will have a good chance of thinking better than anyone who speaks just  English. Did you ever meet an Indian who can speak Spanish?

Prayers may be worth more than you think. Prayers in Navajo may be worth more than that.

Have you ever heard of a guy who came back from war who had bad thinking and bad feelings? There is a Navajo cure for that that begins to work in 3 or 4 days. I don't know the ceremonies at all, but a good start might be The Enemy Way.

If you have a chance to practice Navajo, do it. Ask a couple of questions.

If someone wants to help you to understand better Navajo, let them. Try to make some time for it.

What Do I Know?

~ I am ready and willing to learn to have a bright beginning this year
~ I am ready and willing to learn if I can have a better dream tonight.
~ I am ready to know whether or not I can let a good dream of mine come true here?
~ I am ready and willing to learn to understand my age more realistically here.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to have a more useful understating of my age here.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to believe that this situation matters and still sit loose in the saddle here.
~ I am ready to learn to be much more clearly aware of the nature of this situation today.
~ I am ready to learn to believe that I am important enough to me here.
~ I am ready and willing to lean to believe that my life is important enough to me here.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to believe that I can positively effect this important aspect of my life here

Willing to Learn

I am willing to learn.

Please us your comments to help me to understand.