Remove the plank from your own eye first
Not sure what is less pretty: the look of me inside this video or the way my writing has turned out. lol
This human is having a time let me tell ya. Amongst other things to deal with, my left eye is all wonky again and everythme it gets wonky, it gets a little worse and nasty looking. I really need to do something about this to slow down these flare ups...think they might be doing a bit of damage each time. For now, though it is one eye that is affected.... both eyes are not liking the light...so lol Each "flare up" lasts about a week. I am so determined to do something "normal" right now despite so my blog is it...right? So I cannot see and I said I aam going to write anyway. It will be a test to see how committed I am and how much I can do without clear eye sight lol.
Anyway...of course there all kinds of other things going on despite teh ey thing in my body and outside my body....Karma, I tell myself am burning off karma...and now taht I am committed to waking up ...the karma is like right in my face lol. literally...like right in front of my eye/eyes lol.
I want to attempt to write regardless and I would like to see how what I have going on is impacting my daily life right now...like my eye it isn't going to be pretty. I am a bit sight dependent when writing
so...it ain't going to be pretty:
Again...I go back to trying to understand two ideas on karma I have gathered from Alan Watts. The first one is that karma is just illusion becasue of that "becasue" in teh statement...This happens becasue this happened is just a group of words that humans developed in their mental papttern of language taht they use to makse sense of things. We have a tendency in a mentals cshemaa to fit things into it rather tahn simply accept the random order of things. He quoted Wittegenstien...bit Icant find those quotes. So he argues we cannot say karma is all about cause and effect because effect doesn't have to follow cause????
In the second video he is discussing the yogic, Buddhist, Vendanta's view of Karma and then eloborates on teh Gaoist. ( Not his view but scriptual view)
This arises, this becomes ....Buddha
Once the individual stops doing tings looking for a particular outcome he will be released from karma
karma means your doing....unreal way of looking at it as a law of cause and effect ...or it could be looked at as "action". Of course, certain things go together...this arises, this becomes...
there is a kind of necessity in nature...there is no necessity in nature for one thing to happen because someting else has happened...Wittgenstien ( couldn't find that quote)
can we lay the gjost of necessity? "Any living creature needs food?" is more like "Are you consistent with your environment?" An organism is food...constant transformation of food into the pattern of that organism...as long as it is eating it is still becoming food..."it exists"
An animal eats when it is ready to eat...and hunger is a way of perceiving this readiness to eat...
when food is no longer being transformed into teh pattern of the organism ...we say the organism is no longer there...it dies. we say the organism dies becaus ethere is no food....the organism's death is teh cessation of food being transformed into its pattern
not really desrbing causes ....death is one event...not having enough food...is another event...but why do we say one is the cause and one is the effect? two different events.
How does a cause bring on an effect?
When I let go of the stone it falls to the ground but when I say "The stone falls to teh ground because I let it go" I create illusion. When we define a stone as something taht must fall to the ground becasue we let ot go... we are just "defining" something using words...the "causal determinism answer"... using a mental schemata pattern to describe...not the innate things in nature.
Language is an eloborate pattern with a certain degree of regularity that attempts to sort things in teh world so they make sense to us...assimilate teh world to these patterns...converting nature into our pattern.
Things are just happening simultaneously not necessarily becasue of each other.
Nishkama Karma
Let not your left hand kno \w what your right hand is doing...We need to start acting without premediation...getting free from karma without making any previous announcement
The Taoist gets rid of Karma without challenging it...shows the shortcut...how to do it the easy way using cleverness instead of muscle
The great way is not difficult for those who have no preferences...Buddhist perspective
This is terrible, I know...I do use my eyes to type and am discovering that when teh eys are struggling to organize what they are seeing...the mind struggles to organize thoughts etc...I am almost nauseated lol with trying to do so. Will leave it as such and come back to it when I can.
This impulse to share I suppose could be taken care of with a video...couldn't it? Eye is not pretty but there might be a message in me taht is??? Do you think lol? lol
All is well
Alan Watts/ Simply Art-Inspire ( January, 2024) What is Karma? Alan Watts About the Mysteries of Life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4dm9Gsuu68&t=4s
Alan Watts/ Daily Spiritual (October, 2023)Alan Watts on Laws of Karma. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4AA_v3HTrk
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