A Panda's Journey
“We have a tendency to think in terms of doing and not in terms of being. We think that when we are not doing anything, we are wasting our time.
But that is not true. Our time is first of all for us to be.
To be what? To be alive, to be peaceful, to be joyful, to be loving. And that is what the world needs most.”
— Thich Nhat Hahn
To be or to do? I say both.
Let us always “be”, even as we do.
Meditation is a wonderful place to cultivate “being”.
“Reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.”
— Terence McKenna
There are several “powers that be” that operate to control peoples minds…
Mind control. It happens more than you can imagine.
You lose your mind & your inner power when you believe that people outside of you are more powerful than you.
But you are much more powerful than you can imagine.
Meditation is one way to realize your potential and you power.
You must discover your inner self. And you can do this through the practice of meditation.
In the United States & places of the West, people are often, if not always, living from an outside-in perspective.
They experience life never within themselves, but always outside of themselves – reacting to environments & people rather than experiencing life. Most have literally become a product of their dead political environments, & not a part of the true living nature that is within us & all around us, at all times.
I have studied & practiced methods & techniques from both the East & the West, & I enjoy learning about all of them. I do prefer living life from the inside-out though – I prefer living empowered within myself – & not being a reactive machine conformist to nothing – to a dead society.
I choose life & non-conformity every time.
This doesn’t make me better than anyone – it just is me making a choice to choose what I believe & how I perceive life – rather than taking someone else’s word for it – rather than being manipulated by the criminal oppressors of this world…
Here’s Alan Watts with a short relative paragraph to this topic:
“Just try and see something from another point of view for a change. I’m not saying that we should do what the Hindus do, but just look at it in from another point of view. And they would smile at us and say, ‘You really think it’s as real as all that?’
‘Have you never experienced what’s on the inside of this game?’
See the trouble with you Westerners is you never experience first. You never got down to the root of reality. You don’t know that state of consciousness. And so you’re frantically trying to patch everything up, and pin it all together – Screw the universe up so that it’s fixed…
You can never do it. All you’ll be doing is wildly rushing around and creating trouble.”
-Alan Watts
My question to you is, are you experiencing life?
Or merely existing?
Do you live as a reaction?
Or do you live alive & active?
Meditations are a great way to begin going within and trying the inside-out perspective — to at least try it for even a short time and see if it’s for you or not for you. It’s perfect either way!
Begin your meditations here:
Life is all sorts of things.
There are a range of ways of life, and it is what it is. It’s alright.
Distractions surround us daily, and personally, meditating is a method I use to get focused & be empowered, and to journey well.
I wrote & published The 7 Psychedelic Meditations as a meditation guide for people who use psychedelics, but these meditations can be practiced by anyone in everyday life.
These meditations help me & others live beyond distractions, and into a more focused & strong & centered life.
Buy it today on Amazon, and let me know what you think!
Enjoy 🙂
“Don’t pay attention to other people’s minds. Look straight ahead, where nature is leading you, through the things that happen to you through your own actions.”
— Aurelius
We live in attention deficit societies.
We live in such attention deficit societies that good attention is almost frowned upon – or people are envious of people being able to pay attention. I know that sounds insane, but it’s real.
So don’t bother yourself with any dead minds who are ignorant & envious of people who are focused.
Keep your focus.
Keep your attention.
Live empowered.
With Ken Thompson 