What is your priority in this moment? (and maintaining a touchstone) If a person does this "litmus test" of asking oneself *What is my priority at this moment?", it can easily uncover where ones focus (or lack of focus) is at a given moment ..... it can also uncover what one is currently fixated on.....… Continue reading Practicing “Centeredness” – Maintaining a Touchstone
Krishnamurti on religious organizations
"Religious organizations become as fixed and as rigid as the thoughts of those who belong to them. Life is a constant change, a continual becoming, a ceaseless revolution, and because an organization can never be pliable, it stands in the way of change; it becomes reactionary to protect itself. The search for truth is individual,… Continue reading Krishnamurti on religious organizations
The Mi’kmaw
Brain tanning Hides – Leather
How much of our life is lived in dis-satisfaction?
Here is a list (of things i know personally) which holds us in a tug of war in our human life.Any of one of them, can give rise to a sense of resistance or dis-satisfaction between what IS and the way we THINK or WISH things would be: - I want to have something that… Continue reading How much of our life is lived in dis-satisfaction?
Upon noting freshness fading
When newness disappears is this the ship capsized? Or is reality just peeking through the lore? But could our sense of now moving undulatingly Instead be like the sky's attention on a cloud?
Pan Spiritism/ Panpsychism
Residential School System in Canada
What is self-awareness?
In following the changing view towards the concept that human beings are the only "self-aware" animals on the planet, i have been studying the tests and definitions of what self awareness actually means, and how it is "Graded"...... The main test seems to be the mirror test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_testThe Mirror Test, or MSR, tests to see… Continue reading What is self-awareness?
Forced Assimilation – “Kill the Indian, Save the Man”
"'Kill the Indian: Save the man': Inside the school where Native American children were forced to forget their traditions, dress and even their names to make them 'good Americans'" There are many parallels between the European treatment of the North American natives and the English treatment of the Scots (who they also felt were savages… Continue reading Forced Assimilation – “Kill the Indian, Save the Man”
Reality is Dharma 