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There is a 3rd that I like to add. The situation itself. Head and heart seem nice but a little insignificant when you look at the energetic potential formed in the situation at hand. If one can see potential and match that potential impersonally then head and heart just become tools rather than factors that directly impact decision making. There really is only one option so you just have to see that and follow it up by acting and withdrawing at precisely the right time. Acting is just matching potential. Withdrawing happens when you don’t cling to the situation and can see when to let it go.
Thinking about mindsets is clinging to information, perhaps. When you forget about this stuff you just see the situation as it is and adapt as you need to. Empathy changes from being receptive to emotions to just plain receptiveness in general. It’s quite intelligent actually. You just know what to do.
Yes. That is helpful.
The situation itself
Matching potential
Withdrawing.Thank you
This explains things some more.
It’s not those sharing the same language
Who understand each other
It’s those sharing
The same feelingsEureka.
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Nice comment, Cameron. Thank you. With our thoughts we agonize over decisions, possibilities and choices. Which is correct? What should I do? We play with and entertain ourselves with the sheer variety of thoughts that arise. We are fascinated or terrified with our thoughts about what happened and what might happen. All of it amounting to absolutely nothing. We lose sight that these are only thoughts. They are not reality. They are truly meaningless, containing only the meaning and importance we give to them.
It is our habit to give meaning and importance to some thoughts. It is our habit to give attention to thoughts. It is not our habit yet to question thoughts, to question the validity, meaning, importance and value of all thoughts. When this becomes our habit, we soon lose interest in thoughts entirely seeing for the first time their lack of validity, meaning, importance or value.
They are useful tools, nothing more, equipped for the mundane tasks of repetition, much like a computer’s memory circuits. We input information. It stores it. It combines it with other bits of stored data: images, memories, words. It repeats it. Very much like a computer’s memory circuit.
And, like trying to create a computer with “artificial intelligence”, we have assigned our minds with the name intelligence. The true intelligence is not in our thoughts. There is a “ghost in the machine”. Something that cannot be seen, something before and beyond thoughts. Only when all thoughts are laid to rest and there is some space can we realize this true intelligence.
Thoughts alone are nothing. Fussing over them just perpetuates this addiction to thoughts and the belief in them. It is like being obsessed with the data stored on computer disc and believing that by continually looking at it some great truth will be discovered, possibly even happiness. But true intelligence, true wisdom, does not speak from thoughts. It speaks from Silence. Thoughts and our attention on them creates such noise in our consciousness that this deep Silence and Stillness can not be heard.
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