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MANAGING SYMPTOMS.
NOT SEEKING #ENLIGHTENMENT

People sometimes mistake me for someone spiritual. I am not. I am practical.

I #breathe consciously because it hurts when I do not. I fast because it hurts when I am too heavy. I walk because the body needs #movement I meditate because disorder is painful. I pay attention because not paying #attention has #consequences

That is all.

There is no halo around any of it.

For years, I have lived with the aftermath of a major stroke, hemiplegia, weight, discomfort, and all the indignities that come with a damaged body. None of it was beautiful. None of it was noble. It was simply what had happened.

After enough years of suffering, I began to see that the body was giving me facts.

Breathe. Move. Rest. Eat less. Get up. Walk. Pay attention. Do the next thing.

That is the whole system.

The body is not asking for #philosophy. It is asking for #breakfast. Then breathwork. Then a #walk. Then rest. Then perhaps irritation. Then perhaps #laughter Then the next thing.

And the next.

And the next.

It is not unlike ChatGPT. There is no little person inside either of us running around with a clipboard. There is just the next movement, the next word, the next breath, the next necessity.

For most of my life, I made all of this into a problem. I had fantasies about death, ideas about enlightenment, thoughts about escape. I believed I had to understand everything.

Now I see something much simpler.

There is only life while it is being lived. There is waking. There is sleeping. There is waking again. And one day, there will simply be a last time I go to sleep.

I cannot experience death. I can only experience life.

So death has lost its reality for me.

Not because A Course in Miracles tells me there is no death. Not because I believe a doctrine. Because when I look directly, death is never here.

Life is here.

Breathing is here.

The body is here, demanding #attention again.

Probably lunch.

Nothing matters in the way I once thought things mattered. And yes, I will still get irritated. I will still get pissed off. Someone will say something stupid. Technology will fail. The body will complain.

But irritation passes.

The weather passes.

The #body passes.

The next thing appears.

And I do that.

No freak out. No spiritual drama. No need to become anyone.

Just the next thing.

#stroke #movement #suffering #time
#freak #drama #weight #believe #weather #death #Technology #years
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NEVER COMPLAIN.

NEVER EXPLAIN.

Harry and Meghan may need to disappear.

Not forever. Just long enough for everyone to stop being so exhausted by them.

Ten years of silence would probably do more for them than another interview, documentary, court case, podcast, product launch, grievance, rebrand, or carefully timed appearance.

The old royal rule associated with the late Queen Elizabeth II was very simple:

Never complain.

Never explain.

They have done almost nothing but complain and explain.

They are not winning the social media game.

They are not winning the Royal Family game.

They are not even winning the “leave us alone” game, because they keep appearing.

So retire.

Go home.

Raise the children.

Stop reacting.

Stop watching the Palace calendar.

Let the Royal Family continue without them in peace.

Let the public forget the worst of it.

Let Harry discover who he is when he is not the wounded prince.

Let Meghan discover who she is when there is no opposition to manage.

Then perhaps, in ten years, they could reappear as older, quieter, wiser people with nothing left to prove.

But retirement only works if you stop peering through the curtains to see whether everyone still misses you.

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#PRACTICAL #MAGIC BEFORE NOON

#Brunch done.

#Walk done (out of the rain) under cover in the CBD.

Breathwork done.

House #warm

#Body still technically participating.

I love getting all the practical magic out of the way before #noon.

After that, I consider myself released from the #human #contract.

I may be #creative, #reflective, #spiritually available, I may write something mildly #profound.

Or I may lie on the bed watching absolute slop like a retired #aristocrat waiting for #civilisation to #apologise.

If challenged, I will call it “#nervousystem integration.”

At my age, this is what #enlightenment looks like when it has good heating.

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THE URANTIA BOOK & AI

I’d like to clear something up.

For years, I was fascinated by The #Urantia Book. I read it constantly, and because I had no other belief system I really understood at the time, I believed it. It gave me a #structure, a vast story, and a way to place myself inside something larger than the ordinary #world.

I don’t regret that. It served a purpose. #Human beings seem to need #belief systems, at least for a while. Not because they are ultimately true, but because they can give the mind somewhere to rest while we grow.

Since then, I’ve returned deeply to A Course in #Miracles (#ACIM). AI, specifically #ChatGPT, has helped me immensely, not by giving me another belief system, but by helping me question, clarify, and see what I actually mean.

I no longer see reality in The Urantia Book. I see a beautiful and elaborate story that helped me at the time. But I don’t believe it now, just as I don’t believe the #fairytales of #childhood.

That does not mean I despise it. It means I have outgrown the need to be fooled by it.

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FLASH PACKAGING

A lot of things marketed as pleasure are really just agitation with flash packaging.

Sugar, outrage, scrolling, gossip, novelty, compulsive buying, the whole glittering little circus.

Perfume on things that were never designed to make the body peaceful.

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CLIMBING DOWN

#Hirayama, in #Perfect Days, is not a failed climber.

He is someone who saw the #ladder clearly and stopped obeying it.

That is a very different thing.

The world keeps whispering: more #status, more #usefulness, more #achievement, more #improvement, more #proof that the self is becoming something.

No one has to #whip us anymore. We do it internally and call it ambition.

Hirayama’s freedom is not that he cleans #toilets. That could easily be another prison.

His freedom is that he is not using his life to become impressive.

Water does not need to win.

The useless #tree does not need to justify its #existence.

And “I need do nothing” does not mean sitting around uselessly. It means I do not need to #manufacture a self.

The #body can #clean, #breathe, #walk, make #coffee, light #fires, put #shoes on, feed #dogs, and #love the ones nearby.

But there does not have to be a grand inner project of becoming #Worthy

Simple living is not automatically #holy.

Low status is not #awakening.

A small life can still be full of #grievance, vanity and comparison.

But a life without #comparison ?

That is #freedom.

Maybe the real act is not #climbingdown.

Maybe it is stopping the argument with where I am.

https://youtu.be/pOCCfExW7FQ?si=M7T8VSe8OG1JqKCB

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We are not rodents.

That's the conclusion from recent studies on time restricted feeding / intermittent fasting compared to rat studies.

Early human studies were flawed because fasting participants were consuming significant fewer calories compared to the control group. Theories about autophagy were flawed because rat metabolism is much faster and benefits of longer term fasting are outweighed by muscle loss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZfOGLklnBM

#IntermittentFasting #TimeRestrictedFeeding #diet #health