Dates With Lucy

How many of you can honestly say you can let go of all material? From your 5 thousand dollar car, to your custom vintage guitar/amp to your rolex watch? Do they matter?? Do you need it? Why do YOU have it? What’s the point? Because it’s nice? Because it’s vintage? Because it’s cool? Why do you work? Do you work to spend your money on things you don’t need or just the bare minimum to survive? Is 60 pairs of shoes going to make you a better person? Is YOUR EGO going to make you live longer? I ask you this because all of this is eating up your life, free your self from this slavery. I told myself today if my guitar and all the material things I have worked for just vanished I would be ok with it. You put the price on your belongings and you are in control of your feelings. They are meaningless, live your LIFE and enjoy every minute for the time we have on this earth is short and the best gift is the present moment. It may sound cheesy but if you just take a moment to grasp this moment it beats anything money could buy. Have a great evening :)

This afternoon I saw this video of this kid talking about how he believes if you put your mind into something and practice it inside, out, you can make it happen. Further into the video he talks about how he believed with the right amount of will power, energy and belief he could be a “super saiyan”. Now it sounds absurd, and people laugh and call him names, and I think about it and frown. Now you may think i’m stupid, naive, ignorant call me what you what. I dont give a FUCK. But if anything is possible, then this is possible. If you don’t agree with this notion then you don’t believe anything is possible. I frown upon our human race for bashing and laughing at this kid. Remember Martin Luther King? Remember Jesus Christ? Remember JFK? Remember Terrence McKenna? All of these people were considered crazy because  their dreams were so out  of this world. You all are followers, you all follow the same bull shit and just breathe. You dont live, you just ARE. You WILL NEVER BE! I REPEAT YOU WILL NEVER “BE” For all you do is laugh at others hopes and dreams and follow society. If you believe, you can achieve. I dont care if you find me stupid, far-fetched or whatever you want to call it. You have only one life my dear friend, try to make it count. Even if it means the impossible  

When we all die, on our tombstone it has the year we are born and a dash that seperates it from the year we die. That DASH, represents the mark we made on this world. That small, meaningless dash represents how long we lived and how we affected the world. My question to you is, are you going to live your life in hate, anger, spite, jealousy? Lately I have seen so much hate on the web and it kills me inside to see how we can treat another person like complete dirt, or just talk complete smack about their beliefs and opinions. Does it really matter who wins the stupid argument? Does it really matter if you were “Right”? NO! In this world we all die alone and I sure as hell don’t want to live my life thinking about how much I dislike the way a person is or what someone does. Instead I challenge you to stop all the crap you talk about someone, if it’s negative keepit to yourself. Bring forth positivity; dont feed your ego by saying something or adding on to someone elses’s negative comments toward someone! Instead think WWLD What Would Love Do. (In my case it’s WWJD, but this isn’t about that) Our time is short, lets make our contribution to life worth something. Who wants to be remembed as that crude negative jerk or the one with nothing nice to say, or the one who brings everyone down? NO ONE, we all just want to be loved and I dont care how corny it sounds, it’s true and you know it! I am far from perfect, but I strive to be the best person I can be. We all make mistakes and sometimes our ego takes control of our thoughts and it gets hard to take control. It’s a practice, but if you can be aware of your negative self/ego, you are already banishing it from the present moment. Im not trying to force an opinion on anyone, or argue, im just saying how I feel. So I ask you, how do you want your dash to influence our world? “To change the world, you gotta change yourself, to change the world, it’s the little things thats help” Till next time, JSM

oceanofmind: A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than on fears based on past experiences. An unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment. A loss of interest in judging other people. A loss of interest in interpreting the actions of other. A loss of interest in conflict. A loss of the ability to worry. Frequent, overwhelming episodes of appreciation. Contented feelings of connectedness with others and nature. An increasing tendency to let things happen rather than make them happen. (via thetruthisone-deactivated201203)

Understand first:  There are several types of meditation.  For me these include: Walking meditation:  Being mindful as I walk.  Being aware of breath, being aware of the way my body responds to the sidewalk, or grass, or dirt (because each one is different).  Understanding tension in my body as it occurs or relaxes (and discovering which tension is necessary and which is needless).  And finally, being aware of the entire universe around me as I move through it.  I had a teacher once tell me that you get to change the entire universe just by changing your perspective to it.  For example, when passing a tree, as you get closer to it, you see it from a different angle in every moment.   It’s no longer the same tree.  And the spatial relationship of everything to that tree changes as you move.  It’s quite an amazing thing to actually look at while walking.  I find this the best meditation to connect to the interplay of the universe. Active meditation:  I consider any activity (like Tai Chi, or shoveling snow) where I can turn off my brain as a meditation.  My brain in these moments has a chance to just.  Go fast forward through all the things stuck in it.  Almost like wakeful dreaming.  And if the activity is long enough and consumes enough of my brain’s time, by the end, my brain will be happy.  Now, I don’t actively think during this process.  I allow the brain to simply process, much like dreaming, except I am wide awake.  It allows my brain to do whatever it needs to for the purpose of being a blank slate again.  I find this meditation best for clearing the mind when something is troubling you. Sitting meditation:  There are various methods out there for sitting meditation.  My method consists of sitting cross-legged, and putting my hands together in my lap,my fingers resting one hand on top of the other, and my thumbs meeting above my palms.  I find a place where I am upright, but not held, where my spine can balance my torso and head rather than holding onto my spine and head’s placement.  And then I just let go, closing my eyes.  Sometimes I ask a question, but do not seek the answer at the very beginning.   But much like the active meditation, sometimes my brain just has to go through a bunch of stuff.   I then meditate between 10-20 minutes on average.   I almost always follow a sitting meditation with a walking meditation.  (And if I do an active meditation like Tai Chi, I almost always follow Tai Chi with sitting meditation which is followed by a walking meditation).