Reading your guidebook is one thing, but it is not really the thing at all. Listening is a much better term to use, significantly more accurate.
So, the basics are out there and now we continue onto the basics. Honestly, it is all basic, every step of the way to the way, it is as simple as simple can be, in theory. In practice however it will be the hardest thing you know, in time it will be the only thing you know as you will know there is no other way to the way. There is no other way to living. Anything else is not living at all.
Listening to yourself, the feelings inside you, the world around you is the basic fundamental understanding of reading your guidebook. It starts with me long before the finger points anywhere near you. So, let us learn to listen to our guidebooks together.
Intellectualisn’t
Do you ever sit in a room and wonder to yourself how? Just, how?
Fred’s question in most rooms is how don’t you?
Yesterday, dream course, he left before it started, during the commencement comment circle. It was the most ridiculous shit, talk about the pinnacle of stupidity.
Fredriko said almost nothing, had little to say, before commenting on a comment by Dorothea, the facilitator of the course, actually, I would like to comment on that, until the end of last week I didn’t know what we were doing. Thought this was about playing the dream out for the people to understand it, before realising the equal primary goal is to assist them in recalling more detail, expanding on what they experienced. Would have been great for this to be made clear from the start.
It was a simple request, to clearly state the intentions of what we are trying to achieve from the start so that everybody understands what we are doing, so that we can all follow, nobody gets lost, nobody gets left behind.
Not only was it a simple request it was the absolute basic foundation of what we were doing, it is the basic understanding of inclusion, yet the information was not presented. Again, Fred only asked for the basics to be provided so all could understand, all could follow, nobody would be left behind.
There was no expectation of everyone getting involved, banging on in all different ways to defend when there was nothing to defend. It was simple inclusivity, care, making sure everybody could be fully involved from the start, nothing more.
Ego dominated the room and nothing else.
Fred picked up the detail required to understand near the end of last week when Dorothea was pressing the dreamer and the dreamer was having brain spark after brain spark after brain spark, oh I remember more now, then again, oh yes, something else, this happened.
It was great, really great, the course was no longer simply participants acting in line with the dreamer. Instead they brought experience and alternative thinking into the space, everybody, especially the dreamer, benefitted from it.
For three weeks Fred mainly observed, when he was involved did not know what he was supposed to be doing, the information did not make sense as it did not provide the basic details. Fred was not able to fully participate due to not understanding, when he is the one above all others you want to understand, who sees shit for what it is rather than what everybody wants it to be. He adds value to his spaces.
The daughter of the dreamer last week was the dreamer the week before, this person is a psychologist/psychiatrist, whatever, the two words are stupid, as are those holding the titles, the dumbest of dumb. Counsellors come next in line.
Fred picked up the extension due to additional detail being recalled and then adding to the dream, it made sense, the unconscious aspects of the dream, brand new detail, became conscious, the dreamer was able to expand her learnings in relevancy.
He did not pick this up in the daughter’s dream as it did not occur. Yet the daughter whose voice is the only thing that matters to her becuase she thinks she is intelligent is unable to listen to her world, is unable to project any real intelligence, is unable to be with people in vulnerability, is destroying the lives of the vulnerable (and all her peers, family, friends, etecetera) more and more with every interaction she has simply through pure ignorance.
And, for fuck sake, she is sitting in front of people telling people how to heal and open their lives! Oh my god people, just oh my god.
How bud, just how can you think you add any value to the world?
Her dream, she personally acted more dramatically at details of the dream, embellished them, but NO new detail, no extra additions were bought to the dreaming, it followed the simple narrative of simply playing out the dreamers dream, nothing more nothing less. Exactly what Fred understood this was about when it was only partly about it.
It was completely different to week three when the dream, the detail opened up, where understanding was expanded. The whole point of the thing.
Fred basically told her and the whole room to shutup, that what was coming out of all their mouths was harmful, that none of them knew what they were talking about, ego and nothing else was their way. There was nothing to defend, it was simply a simple comment made by someone who did not understand what was going on and wanted to understand so he could participate. He wanted to understand because he was being left behind.
Frederick is sick of being left behind, sick of watching others be left behind, will not take a single backward step when separation is being spewed by people who somehow think (yes believe, holding a position with no evidence) togetherness is their plight. Spitting this separatist shit out when a big portion of the room sit in front of people who specifically come to them through the confusion of being left behind, being separated from their worlds.
The two situations, the two dreams were completely different, completely, yet this moron who spat out ignorant bullshit after ignorant bullshit wanted and needed to be the most important in the room, the smartest. She only proved beyond doubt she is about as intelligent as the two big disgusting shits Maeve did yesterday morning on our walk.
The shits at least give something other than shit to the world though, provide nutrients to the earth around the piles, sustain life and living. Unfortunately, this lady, as with the religious and spiritual, are solely the pile without the nutrients, sustenance, any substance at all really. She, along with her intellectual environment, has no ability to listen to the world outside of what she wants it to be, or to see experience for how the experience experienced, this is not listening.
This is the same shit as religion and spirituality, the most harmful of harmful in the world.
Liana, FYI, and your Mum to a big degree, your dreams in such simple ways were telling you that you are nothing but control freaks. Your dream was so simple, it even came with the final understanding that releasing control opens up lives to beautiful calm freedom. The whole thing was so simple, how did you not get it before you got there?
Seriously, buds, do you know how to use your own brains to think for yourself?
The simple truth is Fred is the most simple person in that room, every room, super duper simple and yet he is the only one who got the dream, got it immediately, it was so simple. God, you people are stupid. All people are stupid.
The person next sitting next to Freddy, Eugenie, just god mate. Yes, ladies (and men) Fred will tell you that you are wrong when you are wrong, he will shut every ignorant thing you say down until you blow up. Which is what happened (to the whole room). He kept his words to no I won’t listen to this because you are wrong Eugenie, YOU ARE WRONG!
She did not like this, intellectual swine and being told they are stupid, have no idea what they are saying, add no value to the room is a surefire way to destroy their ego, bring all the stupid to the surface. Is exactly what happened.
Somehow, she, as most of the rest of the room did too, argued and argued and argued that it was okay for a participant to not understand, to be left behind. Clearly, Fred does not put up with this privilege life rubbish, not at all.
‘Maybe we could add the information week two, because I liked it that way,’ the basic repetition.
No, I did not understand, I could not participate, I was lost. I, any participant, should not be lost becuase the basic details were not provided. Should not be lost for a single moment. How the hell can any of you accept this? What is going on here? How can you all possibly argue to justify the basic detail not being provide when it should. How? A participant was lost when they should not have been, you are all arguing this is okay! Fucking hell people.
The palms faced up to the sky, a little more than shoulder width apart, a shrug of absolute confusion of course.
In what world can anybody argue that not providing the information is okay, that leaving people behind is okay? Again, especially in the worlds of these people who are working and advising vulnerable people, working with people who have been left behind over and over again.
How when you bitch, moan, protest, scream and fucking yell for safety, unity and togetherness, a better world, understanding, for peace? JUST FUCKING HOW?
This is hypocrisy, absolute hypocrisy. Not only is it hypocrisy, it is the most harmful of harmful things; separation, isolation, segregation. Talking a litttle bit about this with Melrose.
Eugenie, a bit more, somehow is arguing against providing the simple and she has a background in it, was working towards a PhD in Chinese poetry, with a big emphasis on Lao Tzu, Taoism, other cannon such as Chuang Tzu.
Does anyone know the foundation of Laozi’s teaching? The absolute basic simplicity? Look, you really only need to read any of the literature once to pick it up, the most simple clear teaching of the whole thing, the only thing that is super clear and easy to understand, simplicity.
Taoism is about making shit simple, make sure you understand the basics, and then you can move forward into learning the more complicated. By then none of it is complicated.
But start with the basics, start with you, understand the confusion in your own life and then point it out in others. The absolute basic teaching of Taosim, one’s brain does not need to be effective to pick it up, one does not need to be an intellectual.
You know what confusion means, what it does to you yeah? Or are you just so much of a coward that you pretend to understand what is going on so people don’t think you are dumb all the while getting more and more lost, more left behind. Next, going home and bitching and moaning, destroying everyone’s space because you could not speak up when needed.
Which is all that happened yesterday, a room of cowards could not bully, manipulate, make someone feel stupid, they had to stop talking instead. You will not bully this man, no fucking way, Fred is not a coward, he stands up, he stands up knowing why he is standing up and will not back down when those around him are supposed to be better. He’ll just fuck off and never come back, which is the case here.
All the people in this room, almost, are intellectuals. They have proven, and guarantee they continue to prove every single thing I say about intellectualism, that it intellectualisn’t.
Intellectualism is saved for the dumbest of dumb in this world who have filled their heads with others words and now having nothing of any actual intellect to offer. Nothing of experience. No ability to look at their world for what is, only for what they want it to be.
Concluding a little differently, thank you to all. Particularly Dorothea, it was a great time, really enjoyable. But, you know, to all of you, be better, just like Freddy already said to you.
Guilt
Guilt, shame, their little sister, brother, other, whatever, not trying to offend anyone, embarrassment. Inclusivity and all, not sure it includes stupidity.
Frustration has been mentioned a lot, using other words now may help to clear things up.
Guilt, holding on to whatever, feeling bad-negative towards your participation in the action. The repetitive narrative, narratives, that come with it. I apologised, I apologised, she should forgive me, I apologised, what more CAN I DO?
Yes, you apologised, the words came out of your mouth, well done, not really. Words are nothing, everybody knows this, they mean nothing at all, they are used more meaninglessly than anything else in this world. To think for a moment, yes believe, the fact of the matter is any different is fucking stupid friends. This is the same as religion, clearly, ignoring your own lived, repetitively lived, experience for how you want things to be.
Please tell me how this is not a mental illness? Pretty please.
Actions are what are required, repetitive lived examples of your actions living up to those words you keep spitting out.
Repetitive actions are not I only treat her better in this way, it includes expanding that to every interaction knowing that it is better for everyone. Knowing that when this action happens to you that you despise it too. Yet, you repeat it, maybe only in some situations but you repeat it. This is not being better pals. This is not living up to your apology.
Repetition, complete repetition of the safe behaviour is required, nothing less, anything less is not at all, it is absolutely nothing. This nothing is the no experience nothing, it has been ripped from your world through those around you whose I am sorry was, and continues to be, I am definitely not sorry. You are doing it too.
Or, you learn this, understand this behaviour is shit, everyone is doing it so you start yelling and screaming, trying to force them to be better, make them better!
They are only better around you, they are not better at all. Now, they are afraid and are simply toeing the line to maintain a level of safety. Parents, pointing the finger right at you!
You miss the point, the most important point, this shit, this way, is you doing the same thing you are yelling about, but now only using different words. The actions are the same, you are participating in that thing you apologised for still, there has been no improvement. You are the doer too!
Hence your levels of guilt/shame in all situations never abates. You have to look at you, remove the behaviour driving the guilt and then it goes away, it never returns and dictates your life ever again. You’re better, it is what an apology is, the actions were what mattered. In the process you learnt that words were the most useless meaningless action of them all.
Apologies without the words are the best! I could have been better then sweetheart. Then, you just be better, like it is simple, is it not? The shit that means something and that which doesn’t?