Current mood: contemplative
Category: Religion and Philosophy

Results from Chakra test

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Root	Sacral	Navel	Heart	Throat	Third Eye	Crown

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.. .. Root: under-active (-13%) Sacral: open (38%) Navel: open (25%) Heart: open (38%) Throat: over-active (88%) Third Eye: open (56%) Crown: open (38%)

 

Take the test here:

http://www.eclecticenergies.com/chakras/chakratest.php

 

 

Currently reading : Lover Awakened (Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 3) By J.R. Ward

Man has but the simple task of balance.  Balance is not the same as moderation.  That balance entails the unique and tumultuous duty of acting in a way that brings neither extreme or fanaticism nor subjugation.  We act in ways that fulfill consumption.  This may be food, sex, alcohol, reading, etc..  Consumption fuels the inner desire we have for something.  Eckhart Tolle discusses the idea of the ego as being the barrier to enlightenment and stillness.  Hannah Arendt would refer to conditioning, but it becomes a quandary of sorts in understanding the function of conditioning (separate from that of influence).  Man produces conditions, yet he is subject to being a product of conditions.  It seems an inescapable dialectic of life.  To what degree, if any, can we escape conditioning without providing conditions by which to escape previous conditions?  Since we cannot seem to escape conditions and conditioning we must work within them to understand their influence and determinism in imbalance.  Balance is our continuous struggle and reward in life.  We maintain an understanding of our consumption as being appropriated in moderation in order to implement balance that is neither starvation nor gluttony.  This process of balance does not only occur within ourselves but also with ourselves and nature, individually and collectively.  There is not centerfold which holds higher regard than the other because in the cosmic illumination that extends beyond our understanding we are but workers.  What are we working towards?  This remains a question of life and a collective question for humanity.  Man has been given the unfortunate ability of emotion, love and hate, which predicates most of his feelings and willfulness to act.  The balance is to not fall into the extremist disillusionment of fanatical love or hate.  A man who has all the love for the world one day can awake with the bitter taste of hate on his lips the next morning.  Man fails to understand balance and partake in healthy emotional consumption.  When man fails to moderate such consumptions he becomes consumed by it and no longer assumes the role as consumer but product.  He becomes a product with extremism and narrowness of thought.  His balance has shifted from one terminal point to another.  If becomes consumed then he may become confused and unable to discern balance fearing that one movement will shift from one terminal point to another.  Perhaps this manic imbalance is why people struggle with life.  They have been conditioned to allow consumption to consume them and thus are no longer masters of their consumption but products of it.  They are oppressed by the ego as they try to fulfill it but it is an unhappy bitch.  It takes what it wants and destroys, sometimes, violently what it discards.  Man's responsibility is to understand that neither peace nor war can ever sustain man.  It is utopian to believe in sustained peace and abominable to believe in sustained war.  Man will always feud.  His feud will primarily be with himself.  He projects his internal conflict outwardly and thus begins the cycle of providing a condition under which others are conditioned.  It is with moderation, compromise, mediation that we can come to an understanding of balance within ourselves and humanity.  As we look for answers to the world’s problems and degradation of humanity, we must look at the consumption of one and the ill conceived product of being consumed.  When you can balance yourself you can project a balance proposition for conditioning and thus retract the ill fated cycle of extremism and teetering form one terminal point to another.

Antonio Garcia

Indiana University

There's always a wall. Something in the way, a driving force against me. I keep running at it, and I get knocked out, and keep trying and trying. I paint it, I hack at it, I try climbing it, I try to find my way around it, I lick it, I hug it, I kick it,

I hate it, I love it. Call me emo I don't give a shit. Life is 80% torture, to say the least. And I might get people saying "oh it's not that bad" or "it will get better" and shit I don't agree with or already know. Maybe I'll use my screening powers and strain them out. :3 Maybe I could just post to myself. Never did that before.

Yes I'm whining. I shut up about my life pretty well all day all the time to everyone. Here I ramble. Growl. It's hard facing every day. I sleep in til 15h00 usually, if I don't have to get up. And often I should, to do work. but I don't. I want to stay sleeping, dreaming, out of reality.

Reality sucks. I don't have many friends and if I do they don't have time for me. Most of the friends who made time for me don't want to be friends anymore or they moved away. I hate it.

I hate that every thing is against me. Even on good days and in good moods, something isn't right or goes wrong. I'm not asking for perfection, but more than one good day a month would be nice. Hell, even one good day a month would be okay I guess. I might get a good day once every three months and it's often followed by a week of shit worse than usual.

Gotta have balance, right? Fuck.

 

Worth watching til the end. Ever do something like this in your life, knowingly or unknowingly? Only to find out, that what you were coveting was still unattainable or self destructive?

 

 

 

 

It's a continuous process.