0) The One Principle That Orients All Others

What is the purpose of life and what is work for?

What is true?

What do I want?

1) My Own Best Response So Far The Most Truthful Response

To seek what is good, find harmony with self,
recognize we have a communal nature,
and let thought live in being.

Live in harmony with the truth of Being.

To be free from fear, worry, doubt, frustration and anger.

To know what I am. 

But to also derive as much joy as I can from this life. 

Those might be objectives at odds. Or they may be the same thing.

Paradise.

Really what I want is Paradise. I want someone to tell me it exists and they know the way.

2) How The Response Can Become Real-ized

First, the call comes from our own diligence
to begin living from a point of view,
one we believe is true, and that is empowering.

The right view is free from worry, despair, anger or fear.

This requires the ability to generate one right thought--
a piece of truth originating from our inmost being. 

First off, I accept Paradise is not a place. No one will take me there.

It might be a state of mind.

So, I need to understand my mind.

But if Paradise is a projection of the mind, then so is Damnation 

and so are other archetypal thought patterns like heroes and villains and chaos and order. 

I need to go beyond all that. Integrate it all--meaning, see the ground they all share.

--What I am seeking is beyond an idea of Paradise. That's the Truth, I suppose. The Truth is what lays beyond projections or biases or wishes or hopes. So, though I thought what I was after was Paradise, by realizing such a place doesn't exist, I realize what I am after is Truth. (If I simply wanted Paradise, I could practice gratitude lists and affirmations. But I don't do that. So something tells me there is another thread my awareness is tugging at.)--

And to do that, I need to know how to use the mind as a tool.

The purpose of the tool should be to wake up from patterns and stories. 

The first right thought is to know who is thinking.

I is an aggregate

of

living information flows, patterns and stories,

perceived and inferred,

which are experienced as Being.

And there is no I to assert this is a kind of dream, or any of the claims on this page for that matter.

And then, the response to this call is generated
to accept the grace of our being alive
with joy and gratitude for our ability
to be part and parcel with our surroundings.

From this foundation, we align our lives with who we truly are.

The response creates no division.

It does not plan or steer the ship. It follows the currents already appearing.

The thinker is not me. There is no me. 

There is only patterning that wraps itself in a name.

And the thinker is an animal that wants comfort. 

And buys into paths it is sold for tickets to Paradise. And it inadvertently buys into other stories about other archetypes.

Awareness, on the other hand, is looking for experiences.

It finds the experiences it seeks out.

Different tv and radio stations have different genres. Awareness changes channels to what it truly wants.

And it knows the truth. It doesn't get mad just because it doesn't like a certain story or song.

Subject-Object Orientation is the cause of all suffering.

For example, happiness exists now. I am able to generate a moment of happiness in any present moment. Actually, it arises itself from presence. A contentment. A lack of attention rushing out toward any one thing. 

Anytime awareness is pulled out and away and I center in the "I," there is separateness, ego, and suffering from delusion. 

The ego only exists because the body exists; the boundaries of the body create perspective concerned with preserving the body.

Fear, lust, greed, dignity--all stem from concern with the body's orientation or presentation in space.

Okay. But how do I live the experience I am after?

This doesn't feel like a fake it 'til I make it scenario.

I think it's to burn down everything about myself that isn't Me.

Ah. That's why truth and joy aren't always compatible. But in the end they are.

We'll see what's left; at the end, only the essence will remain.

3) My Participation in the Community

The Practice: Consistent, Generous Showing Up--
a strong radio signal regularly laid in the networks of our surroundings.

4) Essences

Art, sports, time with friends and family, studying for its own sake, walking in nature, cooking, and gardening--these are great ways to live life.

5) Albedo

And the essence remains.

And all that's left is to let it ring. Let it ring higher. 

Love is a sought-after ideal for the projection of a Paradise because it is what draws awareness into union and integration with all that is.

There is pure love and there is deluded love.

Deluded love says I love, and I love what I am seeing because of how it makes me feel.

Pure love says here is love, and in it there is no discontinuity.