Perceptual Obstacles

[DoktorGreen]

Here are a few of the common roadblocks that I have encountered over the years in my focus on shifting and holding new assembled positions...



1- Using my own experiential knowledge and collected information as an excuse not to stalk myself.


2- Failing to shift perspectives/opinions/positions regularly. Holding opinions and values about anything is locking an assembled position!


3- Failing to retain an obsession for examination and investigation. This is known as sobriety and leads to automatic shifts. 


4- Not challenging every assumption that makes up my current assembled position.


5-Confusing intellectual fluency with the ability to do what it is I am talking about.


6- Not holding humility. Meaning that its hard to maintain the realization that I know nothing. 
    (When one knows nothing, it is natural to open up to new knowledge. Only by emptying can we learn...)




Hope this is of some use...
DG

[snowblind]

another roadblock (since we are offering advice here) I have found over the years is bliss. This will knock ur ass out every time.

[Gonzo]

Ninny.

[Turin Otzaki]

Thanks DoktorGreen, and Snowblind please can you explain why bliss is a roadblock? and Gonzo, which of them is considered to be a Ninny and why?

[Gonzo]

Joke, Turin...but if you wish a serious reply, the problem with bliss is the same as any other indulgence. Bliss, love and light, can all be hidden behind in favor of doing any serious work towards spiritual evolution, which, when it gets serious, is not bliss, is not fun, is nasty, painful and usually avoided.

[Turin Otzaki]

mmm ok, that's not my experience. I have all that hard painful struggly stuff, but also get regular unexpected usually waves of pure bliss, quite powerful too.

[Lunoor]

Thanks again Doktor Green for more insights and challenges.





We have a different experience of love gonzo, for me it is that which motivates and provides the light for me to work through the painful mess and keep dropping my bs. Bliss has a double edge, it has been a roadblock for me when I am not holding humility, when I think I am done with the work, it has also given me many wonder full experiences, not something to be rejected or sought out but enjoyed while it lasts.





Dok, I find it hard to want to go back to a position of cynicism for instance. I spent a long time in bitter lack of love. I don't ever want to be swallowed by despair and bitter again. I guess I am afraid if I revisit that, that I will get trapped there.

[Hawkeye Crow]

... also known as "The Glass Bead Game."  Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1946
author, Hermann Hesse, born 1877 in Calw, Germany, died, 1962, Montagnola, Switzerland.
also author of "Sidhartha", the Buddha, and "Steppenwolf"
All of these are relevant to the discussion here. 'The Glass Bead Game' is an in depth look at diplomacy, or, more to the point, stalking oneself.

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DoktorGreen wrote:Here are a few of the common roadblocks that I have encountered over the years in my focus on shifting and holding new assembled positions...



1- Using my own experiential knowledge and collected information as an excuse not to stalk myself.


2- Failing to shift perspectives/opinions/positions regularly. Holding opinions and values about anything is locking an assembled position!


3- Failing to retain an obsession for examination and investigation. This is known as sobriety and leads to automatic shifts. 


4- Not challenging every assumption that makes up my current assembled position.


5-Confusing intellectual fluency with the ability to do what it is I am talking about.


6- Not holding humility. Meaning that its hard to maintain the realization that I know nothing. 
    (When one knows nothing, it is natural to open up to new knowledge. Only by emptying can we learn...)




Hope this is of some use...
DG

Thought this was worth a quote, Dok.

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A warrior lives (or strives to) by controlled folly. Its the only thing a warrior can "count on". It brings freedom, peace and clarity to acts. Acts are important yet they are not. So one lives (surfs) this contradiction.

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