Unfortunately, I can't browse or even post on SG while I'm at work, and since I'm at work 99% of the time nowadays that means no naked hottie goodness or wise words on a regular basis.
That's not a bad thing.
I spent a few days in the eastern foothills of the Cascade Mountain range the other week with only the barest of provisions. Besides learning that the Earth provides if you just ask nicely and are thankful afterwards I also found out that we dull our senses by constantly overstimulating them. Great food, great music, great scenery, great clothing. Our senses become so dependent on this that they lose their fine edge, become lazy, and soon we don't notice or recognize half of the amazing things that occur around us.
I think my cleansing trip into the woods will become an annual experience.
That's not a bad thing.
I spent a few days in the eastern foothills of the Cascade Mountain range the other week with only the barest of provisions. Besides learning that the Earth provides if you just ask nicely and are thankful afterwards I also found out that we dull our senses by constantly overstimulating them. Great food, great music, great scenery, great clothing. Our senses become so dependent on this that they lose their fine edge, become lazy, and soon we don't notice or recognize half of the amazing things that occur around us.
I think my cleansing trip into the woods will become an annual experience.
deltron3030 said:
Our senses become so dependent on this that they lose their fine edge, become lazy, and soon we don't notice or recognize half of the amazing things that occur around us.
That is a fantastic observation-- it's so great to get reacquainted with that truth! Sometimes I think that re-attuning with the world as it actually is makes up 80% of the point of shamanic ritual, drug culture, or our mystic traditions. Joseph Campbell calls it attuning to the sense of transcendent; re-remembering that there is a capital-M Mystery out there that both defines and undermines everything we believe as truththe face of God cannot be seen, and the Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. But Chogyam Trungpa cuts it down even simpler than that: Sunshine feels good on the skin. It smells nice after a rainstorm. Good food makes you feel good. Little kids laughter makes you laugh, too.
It's like the ingredients for happiness, health and contentment are around us all at all times, provided we tune in. But so many of us tune in to other wavelengths (materialism, violence, power over others, being a film critic) looking for happiness, when all we really need is free, present and natural.
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