A Panda's Journey
Why are you doing what you are doing?
Are you just staying busy or are you actually being productive?
And more importantly, what is it that you actually want to do?
And how are you achieving them?
There is a big difference between being busy and being productive.
And we all have experienced both.
What’s important is what you do Today.
Know your why and then take action.
“They blame those who remain silent, they blame those who speak much, they blame those who speak in moderation. There is none in the world who is not blamed.”
– Buddha
This Buddha quote reminds me of an Aristotle quote:
“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”
We live in a hyper critical world of insecure projections.
^This makes it hard for any of us to live.
Because when we go against the grain – when we don’t conform to how they say we should live – we get criticized & blamed.
The crabs in the bucket try to pull us back down into the bucket with them – for whatever reason – mostly fear.
But we weren’t meant to live in that bucket.
We we meant to live free.
We Are meant to live free.
So let’s do a little less blaming, and a little more living.
“Live with purpose. Don’t let people or things around you get you down.”
– Albert Einstein
This world is filled with people blindly bouncing off each other – reacting to stimuli.
Then there are people who break out from reacting & are able to live with purpose.
We are here to live with purpose.
Less reacting – More responding.
With purpose.
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
— Jimi Hendrix
The message is simple and profound.
No need to add to Jimi’s words here.
An eager student new to Zen says to their Master, “Please, Master, I am a new student, teach me.”
“Have you eaten?” The Master replied.
“Yes,” the student said.
“Then wash your bowl.”
The student was enlightened.
The definition of integration, from Oxford dictionary is “the action or process of integrating.” & Integrate is defined as “combine (one thing) with another so that they become whole.”
The process of integration can take time, but it’s always happening.
Within these CoachT posts I bring to you what inspires me – ideas, people, places, experiences, and dreams.
One experience that highly influenced my life was my first experience with psilocybin mushrooms. You can read about my first psilocybin trip here.
I’ve also been involved as an activist towards legalizing plant medicines, because I know their healing qualities firsthand.
I’ve created a pen name, Psil Silva, where I share my experiences & add my two cents into life, in regards to the area of natural plant medicines like psilocybin mushrooms.
My name, your name, these aren’t as important as what is beyond our names – the peace beyond understanding.
& this is why it’s hard for many to understand – because it’s literally beyond understanding.
It’s an experience.
Anyway, I hope to integrate my websites, books, & ideas, to share the best of what I learn, with you.
It may be useful & it may not, so, as Bruce Lee says “absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.”
It’s all related, all connected, and one of the short books I wrote that you may like best is titled The 7 Psychedelic Meditations.
Check it out here on Amazon & please leave a review.
Let me know what you think! 🙂
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
You lost the game.
You won it next week.
You fell down.
You got back up.
You’ve been hated.
You’ve been loved.
Why is it easier for people to cling to the negative?
It could be, like Tupac said, that “fear is stronger than love.”
Or it could be the result of societies current dogmas.
Societies change, history shows us this, but it always begins at an individual level.
You may have been defeated once, or even hundreds of times, but life is not done with you yet.
Don’t confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
Persevere.
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
– Aristotle
Where are you going?
What’s the rush?
Sometimes a sense of urgency is necessary, and sometimes it’s not.
And sometimes we’re all so busy rushing around that we forget the joy in this moment.
Take a deep breath.
Be here, now.
And from here, you can go anywhere.
“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
– Lao Tzu
What dream do you have?
Are you taking actions towards your dream?
What is one thing you can do today to begin turning dreams into reality?
It won’t happen overnight, but it won’t happen until you first have the dream.
With Ken Thompson 