Concern is your concession to unconsciousness, someone said and I agree. Concern is busybodiedness. Waking up is about waking myself up. That’s where to put my attention.
Hi Andrew, I agree, and there is a big 'But' hovering there in my mind - that driven sense of feeling like I have to 'do' something, even if it is just worry, is almost inescapable. What you wrote reminds me of Brother Lawrence's book - 'Practising the Presence of God', so it is a good reminder, that the 'work', if it can be called that, is to just be present, to my own self, and sense of being. And that does take some focus, or Focusing, or Presencing, because it is not a common thing to do in our Western world, at least.
That sense of having to do something . . . it catches me too and that piece had a good dollop of it. I don't think it's true that we do have to do something.
what happens when you try to interject humor? Do people look at you as if you were never serious. Well that would be okay if I did stand up comedy. For example when I saw my doctor I told him I changed the name of my dog to "Ten Miles" in order that I could say I walk Ten Miles every day.
Concern is your concession to unconsciousness, someone said and I agree. Concern is busybodiedness. Waking up is about waking myself up. That’s where to put my attention.
Now you're taking my language.
Good to hear from you Frank. Lots to say . , . but I'll save it for a soon post.
Hi Andrew, I agree, and there is a big 'But' hovering there in my mind - that driven sense of feeling like I have to 'do' something, even if it is just worry, is almost inescapable. What you wrote reminds me of Brother Lawrence's book - 'Practising the Presence of God', so it is a good reminder, that the 'work', if it can be called that, is to just be present, to my own self, and sense of being. And that does take some focus, or Focusing, or Presencing, because it is not a common thing to do in our Western world, at least.
That sense of having to do something . . . it catches me too and that piece had a good dollop of it. I don't think it's true that we do have to do something.
what happens when you try to interject humor? Do people look at you as if you were never serious. Well that would be okay if I did stand up comedy. For example when I saw my doctor I told him I changed the name of my dog to "Ten Miles" in order that I could say I walk Ten Miles every day.