Hints For the Good Day
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To See Dangers, Avoid Them
THE little cat to its kitten: "This is what I teach you: Life goes through many phases or stages. Through all of them it normally helps to keep one's vividness intact, for that vividness is of id (libido), and for the lack of it the organism flounders through diseases or some other ways. So play, my kitten; it also serves to prepare you for grown-up living.  |
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Stages
There are good reasons for asserting that good health depends on healthy id, which is like the Child in Eric Berne's Transactional Analysis (TA). Id manifests through phases, says Sigmund Freud and later psychodynamics. Erik H. Erikson's scheme for sound id-related unfoldment is useful to some. [LINK]This does not mean it is wise to remain like a child or kitten only; that could be dangerous in the long run. Besides, children differ, and kittens too. Some artists, however, excel in manifesting id sides as if they were children. Pablo Picasso, for example, said it took him a lifetime to be able to paint like children. A cat can paint too. Maybe not every cat, and maybe not every human may end up as a Picasso, but look at this: [A cat paints (2 videos)]
There are no tricks to it; just go ahead and do it.
Avoid sufferings to succeed in time
As a grown-up you have to plan. Teen-agers too are served by it, as are children, more or less, depending on their plans and realism.But there is more: To see dangers, avoid sufferings. It is basic, and often works the other way round too: To avoid sufferings, see dangers (to steer outside them and so on). In psychology, it is an existential tenet that we cannot allow ourselves to see things if such seeing (insight) infects us with too much suffering. Defence mechanisms tend to abort very hard insights in time. In other words, to understand a thing, be strong enough to tackle it. Otherwise the insight may not work very well for you.
Persistent clarity helps through life. Attain to all-round pleasant living.
Like a five-year old kid
Have your own Child rather than an idol to think fondly ofl.Idols become idols by being targets of naïve, recurrent mental projections of others. Especially children go far in projecting sides to their own, inherent id onto imposing or respectable others. Fear and insecurity may pave the way for such losses to native id also.
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Striking some balance should assist you. There are facets of the art of saying what you mean without offending nearly everybody, in part depending on circumstances, or contexts.
You can sort out what you can accomplish, and take care of yourself and maybe put good talents to use as blandly as you can.
To be bland and fair is much to hanker after. To be bland in a fair and neat way is the lesson for nearly everyone that comes to this planet. In Kindergarden and at home he learns to adjust to bosses and others by toning down some expressions rooted in self-centred will. Besides, "The paramhansa is like a five-year old," tells Ramakrishna [Tas]
Still a health-preserving middle way of avoiding extremes is largely fit. And one fine root of deep stability is to have a will of one's own.
Will Horoscope
Some think the whole of human life is written in the stars, in the birth horoscope, but I don't think that. For you can be given some chances to mend your ways, refrain from going for gold mostly, get less infirm morally, and these developments or changes could help you to benefit even in what are called difficult astrological periods. Insight helps as well. In other words, some grow much out of the so-called scenarios their horoscopes are interpreted as telling of. Much depends on interpretation.Question: "What indicates my will in my birth horoscope, radix?"
Answer: Pluto's placement in the houses and signs, and whatever hard and pleasant aspects to it that may be found, seems to give an overall indication, all in all. That toodepends on interpretation of what Pluto signifies, what star signs indicate, and what houses tell. Maybe an example helps:
A sordid woman
A baby girl was born on 27 February 1956 in Odense, Denmark. A horoscope shows her Pluto squares Saturn (that is technically speaking. It means that two lines from Denmark, one to Pluto in the firmament, and one to Saturn there, formed a 90 degree angle. That is a square in astronomy and astrology alike.The Pluto drive (will) side to her depths would be in the Leo sign - indicating a desire to show off and snarl, perhaps. However, lionlike cruelty is a severe and often indecent mistake for a human (a "bad Saturn") - it hardly takes one upward in life, hardly elevates the being and conditions, that is. Cruelty is a transgression most often.Now, the woman had freedom to make her own choices a long way. We should not let aspects or horoscope placements run our life, unless they serve usrather well. "If you don't like the patterns of you life, change them." It may be easier said than done, but at least partially possible. Hope that. Put shortly: We are not designed to be "puppets of the stars".
Looking into the woman's horoscope, we may think the cosmos has apparently "let her out in the world" to be served to get by by this kind of will: (1) cold, hardened, socially irresponsible, depraved, (2), often of unrealistic desires, envious of social status, and in turn getting chronically so.
The gold-digger also entered a Swedish sect to care for her. And that is another sort of sect-abuse - that the sect itself gets abused by a bad member, and not the other way round, which is far more usual.
She was served by an adamant will to crime, furtively claiming innocence, taking lots of sectarians in. Granted that, a solid part of her life from then on would be like the life of the clergy, in part nobility: Minding facades and that sort of stuff, trying not to be found out, because scandals hurt.
I think Pluto's will is most often somewhat hidden in the background of a life course, not blatant, but may be glimpsed in the life story and surmisions along with it. Also, it is "indicated by Pluto" (interpreted) in the birth horoscope. Just see if it fits; it requires coding skills and training in interpreting the patterns and factors handed down, to say the least. The main point is: Structurally based assertions about what Pluto's "stands for" in any horoscope, may be tentatively verified /falsified by comparing it with significant parts of the life history. However, possible complication is that at least some of these may be jealously guarded, not unlike indecencies among the clergy and nobility.
By God!
Many a criminal has got on in the world - by God! First animals served as victims, the Old Testament has it. They were sacrificed to let guilty humans get on; it was a cardinal part of of the Law of Moses. Such a deal is corrupt. Letting not-guilty ones suffer for the crimes and terror of others is a hallmark of corruption. Opposed to the Christian and Jewish "scapegoat and ransom brutality called justice", where helpless innocents pay to let scoundrels carry on, we have the moral of Buddhism and of central Hinduism too. Sane justice and mercy is not to be barred from animals either, that is the preferrable outlook.Then what about theft, bearing false witness, and inducing others to heinous crimes? A heinous criminal may feel impelled to go on through "Jesus has atoned for my sins. The blood of the lamb of Golgotha covers all." Is that so sure?
Let the surface appearance count
To become like a child is hardly losing one's adult likes and dislikes totally. What should be fruitful, is to keep one's id (zestfulness, joy of living, ado) intact throughout life. It means that the personality factor that is called the Child in Eric Berne's Transactional Analysis (TA) is to be catered to, as health depends greatly on it.Keeping one's inner Child (libido) alive and well throughout life is different from reversing one's development. To be bland in accepted and acceptable ways should be part of that overriding lesson.
What an innocent beginner - a child - can handle are things that most likely pertain to surfaces only, but hardly many facts. Some children do not always judge a book by its cover.
To cater to relaxed awareness is one of the boons of practical Zen training.
The Tactful Fare
We may have to balance these life factors as best we can:Family living consists in part of showing off blandly. Perhaps by a nice house in some all right neighbourhood, filling it with nice outfit, competing with the Joneses.
Strange consideration is another side to becoming like little children. The villa-owner has his surface show to take care of. To have and keep a good home has to be accomplished by "us here first" and horrible intruders have to be shooed well off.
A secure home base is for serving innocent ones as they naturally grow up. It is pointed out in an Indian fable that what is helpful may be welcomed, what is not, should be left out. It is basically like that. A good garden and lots of fences and mounds in cities may help too.
Is only fair to take the credit or place it where it belongs.
Good and sensible art is a great boon and helper.
To become like little children has to be mastered in activity.
For Kindergarten children the croaking rooster and animals in a rustic setting can be good helpers somehow. But to get furiously envious like bad little children is not a sign that things run well.
To be genuine matters a whole lot too.
Proficient networking may lead to reports of many kinds.
In Pop Art (q.v.) the artist is at liberty to select, cut up, rearrange and re-compose anything he likes. The end result of such activity - it does not have to pertain only to paintings - can be termed neither quoting nor not-quoting.
Modernistic and Pop Art-like essays are not wholly a quotation circus. They can be rife with observations and many points and may be put to use too, in a quite consistent manner.
As it often happens, new art forms may scare the tradition-bound. What happened to Picasso during his first ten years of renown? He was called insane and more by critics. [Kok; Pap]
A project entepreneur knows that he should adapt or fit in with a minimum of overt nuisance, a minimum of boasting for improving the chances of success on an even keel.
Reminders
For a while it could be seemly to have ulterior motives and plans.What alarming bosses may do and thrive on top if, is to make use of assets of devoted and obedient contracted servants and workers, and so on.
What helps is to ensure our own way.
Adamant self-presentation matters in some waters and to some people.
Go into dominant attunements the day you can.
You are at liberty to select, cut up, rearrange and re-compose a lot yourself.
Modernistic and relevant poetry tends to be characterised by largely isolated pieces put together without much in between them.
We also have to bear in mind that a loaf of bread doesn't harvest many insights.
It happens that fine thing looks like nonsense or thin ice. So maybe skating on thin ice is great art.
We can't all be serving-men.
Centralisation has its ugly aspects, and many can be counteracted by flat-top local democracy.
One of Maharishi's key ideas is that we could all do better if we adapted to fit in
well with a minimum of nuisance.
Watch Out That Your Lost Sheep Is Not a Rabbit
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| Who is perfect nowadays? |
How could Jesus come to the lost sheep of Israel when God said he himself had destroyed them much earlier [Matthew 10:6; 15:24; Hosea 1:4; 13:9,11; Amos 2:13; 5:2]? Jesus came like a mother hen in vain on his save-only-Jews mission.
Mammon Attracts Sinners
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We can look on most Christians as we do on juvenile delinquents and wonder how mentally troubled and ill they could be: "It's not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I haven't come to call the righteous, but sinners." [Mark 2:17; cf. Matt 9:12] Accordingly, even "good" Christians cannot be well, and not much righteous either, on the word of Jesus.
In the Happy Garden
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'Eden' is related to 'joy' in ancient Hebrew. Hence, the first man and woman lived joy and were naturists. In the happy garden of Eden there was no need for study of Greek classics or the Bible. It was not written then. And when the Bible's man and woman were at their peak, so to speak, they didn't know any great difference between being naked or dressed and were without shame. Maybe they couldn't even count.
Sound garden protections and precautions often help: protected by walls and hedges and more, bushes, trees, humans and little animals can thrive together.
To feel free and natural in the nude, good garden walls help.
Mammon is Aramaic and means 'wealth' - it is one of the sure signs of divine blessings in the Old Testament.
Deep within, the natural id appears to like clowns.
Solomon's Treasures
Solomon didn't take proper precautions and lost or got rid of the ark of God.
The Christian's outlook is: "The temple of stones is less than the temple of bones". The apostle Paul, "Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? ... God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple." [1 Cor 3:16-7]
"A man thinks he knows, but a woman knows better" (American).
It helps to go along with sound id development for most part."
To keep a woman, handy mammon is the thing.
Wild animals and brave farm animals can give enigmatic cues to how natural libido is geared to work and play.
Raw lust was designed by God himself. Who else did it?
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Literature
Kok: Michelet, Johan. Kunst og kritikk: Maleri. Oslo: Tanum, 1967.
Pap: Warnche, Carsten-Peter. Pablo Picasso 1881-1973. Edited by Ingo Walther. Vols 1-2. Køln: Benedikt Taschen, 1995.
Tas: Ramakrishna. Tales and Parables of Sri Ramakrishna. 5th ed. Madras: Ramakrishna Math, 1974.
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