You learn more from disasters, and your originating spirit doesn’t actually care about anything other than the goal or the finished product. The reason it doesn’t care about anything other than the goal, because everything else is false. It’s fears and ideas in your own thinking. It cares about you and the goal is you. You are the point of everything. This is why some part of you seems to get frustrated when you insist that you need to stop and “think”. Anyone not experience this at least sometimes?

We gain more when it’s off the plan some, perhaps that’s why the saying “it’s better to be lucky then good“? Yes, that’s why.

I heard a great quote on the food network about failing. There was a contest to find the next food network star and one of the contestants said I may fail, but I will fail at the right thing. That makes all the difference. This is what was meant in the poem that refers to the road less traveled. Plenty of people do things right, because that isn’t original. They learned to do it right, because someone before them already did it wrong.

How can we know we will fail until it happens? Also true, We can’t. It’s the doing that matters, not our thinking as we are taught to understand it. We can make fire, because someone burned themselves. We can practice medicine, because someone bled to death. We can devise tools, because someone got really frustrated and tired doing it the hard way, and not for any other reason. So what are we afraid of that makes us so psychotically thinky?

To be thought less of? I would love to be thought less of. Would give me a lot more freedom.

Some of those mistake can cost lives. I would imagine that would be really disheartening? Making no mistakes has cost lives too. Following the rules has lead people to kill each other. Remember the Nazis? You don’t see the flaw till the fail. You don’t see the evil until it’s been done. Until then you’re sure it’s moral and Hitler didn’t survive his war.

Choosing to decide against your originating spirit is a choice, but if you won’t follow your own, you will be following someone else’s. I promise, and well… So far we haven’t had a great track record there. It has been the blind leading the blind. Advert, convert … same thing.

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
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But surely planning is important if we want to live? If no-one ever planted an apple tree intending for someone to eat apples in the future? That is not planning, that is knowing. Even our instincts grasp cause and effect. To use the Chinese term, it’s a knowing of the Tao or natural way that no amount of words can effectively speak of, but we know very intimately anyway. Planning is an effort to “rig the game”. If it works, it’s despite us not because of us. We cannot create what we will not let ourselves be.

We feel so terrible when plans go a bit off? i.e. weddings. People often do feel terrible when their plans go awry, because on some level they know they were out of touch with something. It makes them feel insecure to think that life operates without them, and that they don’t see some part of it.

We can think. It’s ok to think, but as one of my favourite comedian says “We need to get our priorities crooked.” (Mitch Hedberg) In feng shui they notice that things tend to favour curves, rounds, not sharp angles. Straight line thinking is well … What else is straight lines? Prison bars are, yes? Everything that curves tends to let us through.

I’m thinking of that comedians joke about ‘crazy straws’. They are also crooked. Indeed, and a crazy straw won’t likely poke you in the eye. Its curves make it more visible, but they still allow you to drink your milkshake. They still do the job.

Long straight roads are really boring to drive. Dangerous too as they induce road hypnosis. People tend to be safer on curvy roads as they have to be more alert. We understand this message even subconsciously. When someone seems to do what they want despite the rules, we often say they are “crooked”, but they tend to wind up behind straight lines or bars. The reason being is they commit these crimes because they believe they “have to”. Are they really engaging in original thought?

So, our instincts… Are they ever thrown off when things don’t go according to plan? Or is it more that your thinking mind/ego is embarrassed, because somehow you “failed”?

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

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Categorizing? Yes, and we don’t listen to this originating part of ourselves until things “make sense”, and often exclude its guidance because it calls us to do things that don’t fit into our narrow conscious mind language. Thus low self esteem and a lack of self knowledge is more a rule than an exception in today’s life.

Fear of losing ones mind. Our society today constantly demands “be rational”, which is funny because there is really little evidence of it around us. We fear losing our minds, and thereby lose them.

We don’t know ourselves to be able to like us… We declare ourselves poor, at least in our secret thoughts, all the while throwing the gold of that pure spirit away as useless because it doesn’t “make sense”. Of course we don’t like our rational minds, but we do believe it’s what we actually are; stale, dry, desiccated, dead. Our souls seem to exist as mummies in tombs of monolithic, institutional thought.

We are told not to be impulsive. It’s supposedly not responsible. I will agree that ignoring your needs for food and shelter would be irresponsible, but how many of us have a deep seated inspiration to steal the food from our own mouths? Who is so selfishly obsessed with some supposedly psychotic impulse that they would hurt themselves by sabotaging their survival? It isn’t our impulses that are psycho. It’s the thinking that is built up around them that can be.

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So what is originating spirit? Well, some people think that might refer to “being original” as we are taught to see originality. Originality as we are taught it … is it very original?

More tradition. The kids trying to be original all look alike. Yes. Both very true.

Can we think of it as “source”? Personal source not usually covered in many of the spirituality schools that are popular right now.

I was taught that no one likes a copycat and also that imitation can be flattering…so which one is it? Imitation is flattering, because the originating spirit in each of us is also our genuine point of connection with others. I refer to it as the originating spirit rather than the creative spirit, because creativity leads people to think of artificial things, something “made”. You may have heard the phrase “I see where you’re coming from”? That phrase has more meaning than people usually reflect upon, and in the case of imitation, it’s a lot like our tendency to imitate the body language of someone we’re talking to. It’s an instinct.

Making connection? Yes. It adds to the statement “I see where you’re coming from … and I’m with you”.

That is often more subconscious too, right? You don’t realise you are mirroring someone you are attracted to? Most people don’t imitate body language on purpose, and we have the subconscious drive to be with people. Even if we are consciously trying to hold ourselves above them, something in our souls knows that superiority is a lie.

So the drive to be one of the group? Well, no. It isn’t a drive to be one of the group, because the group is a conscious mind creation. Group is an arbitrary idea.

A menu item? Exactly.  It’s a drive to be present with another in spirit as well as body.

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Did you see something beautiful today? You only saw yourself. Did you see something ugly? You also only saw yourself, but these are not the true self.

Self is self and all others are also self? Others are mirrors, and the mirror is sacred as you are the mirror also.

The Buddhists engage in a practice loosely called death meditation. Some say that’s just ugly and morbid, but they do it to fully embrace life, all of life. They witness the vultures consuming the dead in what they call “sky burial” as much as they contemplate the corpse on the platform. We are a part of that, and anything you judge is only self judgement. For myself, life seems very broad, and at least in some ways still very perfect, as we are, as our paths are. We are exactly what we need to be. Whatever feeling you have about yourself… Well, it can seem like a lot of different emotions, no? How many emotions are there?

Two. Which two? Fear and love. I would say there is one and it’s distortion, but fear is still love. We fear because we love, but we don’t have to fear to love. They say God is love, and as you may have seen on Chinese shrines or in the Egyptian ankh symbol, God is often shown as a mirror. What does love do? Mirrors.

The reason things seem unclear is that we think we are transitory things. We think we have something to prove. That we are not good enough. God is not good enough? Well, let’s say the divine is not good enough, then what does the question of good matter?

Maybe good is what is. Maybe despite any pain and hardship you have had, your life is good enough right now, and the only thing really to do is let yourself be and express itself. Be in the world, but not of it. As they say, there are interesting things to learn there when you let yourself be in the world and not of it. The seeming separation actually vanishes. You begin seeing that the world was always welcoming you anyway.

I should identify with the real me = witness? And identify with your real feeling, love. When someone you really love is angry, do you stop loving them? No. What about when they’re sad? No. What about you then? Is it bad to be angry or sad? No. If you identify with love, then you will find there will only be right action, and you will not invalidate anyone, including yourself.

If you get identified with being angry or sad, that is a distortion, but having seen an alternative you can’t unsee it. When you ask “Who is this that’s angry?”, how can the anger be you? If the anger isn’t you, doesn’t that mean you have a choice? If you recall any emotion is love, because ultimately our highest need is peace, then are there even two emotions to choose from? Or maybe just some clarity that you can choose to have? I like clarity myself. Being confused is scary.

There are two forces, one uniting, one separating? There is one force, and then how it’s channelled. It’s really pretty giving. It lets us do whatever we choose. We choose to believe this stuff in our heads is real. This thinking stuff we are taught. Is seeing believing? Thinking is a sense. The brain is a sense organ. It’s proper. It serves a purpose and we do need it, but we have been taught to do something really weird with the brain. We are taught to believe it without checking for agreement. If you hear something you will naturally look toward the sound, yes? Or at least let your attention go briefly there? This is natural, but if you think something where does the attention go? Back to the experience?

There’s a bumper sticker “Don’t believe everything you think”. That’s a very good bumper sticker, but it needs a balancing statement. Don’t disbelieve everything you think either. They say familiarity breeds contempt. It deadens us to our own awareness. This serves some people in our world. Does it serve us?

Doubt your thoughts? I would say investigate your thoughts. Doubt is a prejudice. Doubt is just another habit and of questionable worth.

So it’s often argued we need an identity. I don’t in the least disagree, we certainly do, but we shouldn’t mistake the finger for the moon it’s pointing at. We need this being that we are, and need to not sabotage it with doubt, or a belief that in any way who we are is insignificant or invalid. If it were, then how in this infinite world did we arise at all? Is the world arbitrary? Fickle? Or are these human judgements?

Taoist speak of the way which is what the Chinese word Tao means. Way, and they don’t say it’s random or in any way out of order. Is it in your view? Your way isn’t out of order either. Your feelings aren’t out of control. There is change, but this is necessary. It’s life. Living things need flow, and maybe that means bleeding sometimes. Who is it that’s afraid of bleeding?

Is it like crying happily? Yes, and it’s good. As God said in the great creation, it is good. Be well.

I hope this was a sharing, and thank you, each of you, for your presence. Your thoughts are welcome.

Travis Saunders
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It’s me. Yes, but we often still get caught up in life, even if we understand this inquiry it just seems easier. We get distressed and just go on auto-pilot, because to stop seems like it would just be weird. It would be “not-me”. But if you can do it, how is it not you?

It’s disorienting if it’s not what we’ve done before. We have to be brave and motivated. So instead we decide that it’s better the devil we know. We don’t in that moment realize that we are choosing that old response. It’s perfectly fine to choose the old response. It’s possible that it’s a very good response, but we are labouring under the idea “I’m not good enough”, and therefore we are forever looking for that one special “right way”. Has anyone here found their right way?

Yep, it’s right there. Just keep walking. Exactly, it’s not the missing way that’s the problem. It’s that we forget where we are and who we are. There are too many things we are supposedly supposed to be, when in fact all you are is just the person who is right here, right now. The rest is much too much to keep track of, is it not? And how can we say we are not good enough? What can you do that doesn’t stem from you?

I still don’t know who I am, or if I’m just a transient delusion. I would say that you are the part of you that doesn’t know, but the statement that you don’t know is a distortion, because you are led to say that you don’t know who you are for a reason.

Will that part ever know? It already knows, and it shows you ever time you question.

I can be less than I want to be. Who is it that wants to be more?

Me. I want to be more than I’ve become. Ah, you want to be you, but you want to be you a different way than your way, and how can that work? Can it? Can any way other than your own lead you to being more yourself?

No, I want to be me, but I don’t try hard enough to realise myself. I just sit and listen to music.  You try too hard, so you sit and listen to music. There is nothing to try. There is no trying in being. In being you will see clearly, because part of being is seeing. Yes, people have a visual identity, but usually it’s not really what they have seen that they identify with. It’s what they think they see. They didn’t really pay attention while they were looking.

So is identifying with what you see an automatic process? Yes, in a sense more of a habit, but it’s not really natural. We get all sorts of messages that we have to see certain things, and not see others. The mind is easy to convince, then of course the eyes just obey, but it is our mind and our eyes. Emotional identity works the same.

I can see growth. I am different today than yesterday? You are not, but your expression is. You are infinite so your growth is just a joyous expression of all that you are, or a distorted one, but that is up to you. You are the observer, and you are what you choose to see. You saw life on both days, and will see life tomorrow.

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
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