Picture Puzzle Patterns

[Jhanon]

Conviction
The complete confidence and conviction when the 6th chakra/third eye is surging, almost overflowing, is absolutely liberating in experience. You see all the patterns.

Connection
Every moment connects to the last and the one before and the ones in the distant past and there's so many connections coming so fast that it becomes absolutely impossible to doubt the insights. Experience itself becomes poetic, beautiful, a grand masterpiece finished before it never began.

Interconnection
It's as if a hand were guiding your consciousness to put together picture puzzles. And every time a puzzle is completed, revealing the whole picture, one feels a foundation of confidence solidify as it sends waves of satisfaction(?) throughout.

Ripples
And then, as if it couldn't be better, that finished picture puzzle becomes a piece in an even bigger picture puzzle. And it's as if you saw it coming all along, that you've already seen it, and have always known it. And process continues trumping and interconnecting...

I wish I could express it adequately. I especially appreciate it when, somehow, this process happens in synchronization with music.How the damn title fits into all of what I've already said.

Ripple Effect - Phutureprimitive

[Jhanon]

Knowledge is not Arrogance

The words of one accumulated with greater knowledge look like arrogance to those who are of lesser knowledge. A toddler knows not that the red coil of an oven is hot, but the cautionary words of the parent carry the power of absolute certainty. The toddler becomes frustrated and does it anyway, because it thinks "How can they know this?"

Life is full of endlessly recurring and resurfacing patterns.The parent doesn't need to touch a red fire coal for the first time to know it's hot, because they already interacted with a red oven coil and know the pattern--that a red glow almost always indicates heat. Most humans assume that some knowledge is beyond the capacity of humans. It is then when knowledge of the greater patterns within commonly known patterns are expressed that one is often accused of arrogance.

This is not arrogance just as that is not arrogance. Do not be afraid to share your knowledge, but always be ready to genuinely submit as soon as your knowledge is challenged as arrogance by another. In that very act, the accusation of arrogance is shown false. Arrogance requires pride, and pride is incompatible with genuine submission. Besides, if you submit and find you are wrong--you've just learned.

[Zack]

False modesty can also be confused with submission. That is, a sub- or semi-consciously manufactured deference intended to disarm a threat, with the goal being to maintain dominance. This deference is basically a shift into evasion and obfuscation; as in, taking a more diffuse form to maintain an unassailable position, with the intention of then consolidating back into a dominant power expression. Genuine submission seems to be the relinquishing of any attempt to direct power in the first place. In my own work trying to dissolve subconscious behaviour towards controlling or otherwise managing others it has been helpful to contemplate this.

[Jhanananda]

Good to hear from you, Zack; and thank-you for posting your very insightful response.  It reminded me of a short exchange I had via SKYPE yesterday with an elderly aunt, who happens to be a southern fundamentalist, so she thinks I am a devil worshiper. So, her idea of "thy will be done," is 'I submit to my deeply flawed belief in a benevolent creator god, and anyone who does not buy into my deeply flawed belief system will burn in hell any way, so if I burn them at the stake, then I am helping my god out.' This type of thinking I believe is behind all of the marginalized mystics of the history of the world, which means they were most likely persecuted by the devout.  So, friends, beware of the devout.

[Jhanon]

Good point, Zack.

[Jhanon]

I've found it resurfacing in writings and reflections. I have reflected and meditated to depth for clarification. In particular--and quite unlike the meditative tendencies of last year--I meditated as deeply as possible with the intent to be terrified. It was intuition that this would reveal any arrogance.

For this to happen, I absorb into the insight stream as the object for samadhi, which tends to bring me the most powerful experiences. It naturally comes to this issue. But the insights continue coming back the same. I've removed the latter insights, for sake of intent of this post.

"Minds are a recurring pattern. Just like there are many similar trees that recur on the planet, there are similar minds which recur in people. If you know trees in general, then you can know most things about most trees. In the same way, you can know most things about most minds. The former is called a "tree expert" while the latter is called "arrogant."

Is this not sound? I'm trusting those here to give me honest, and balanced feedback, in the hopes it will be to the well-being of others in the future.

Good to hear from you, Zack; and thank-you for posting your very insightful response.  It reminded me of a short exchange I had via SKYPE yesterday with an elderly aunt, who happens to be a southern fundamentalist, so she thinks I am a devil worshiper. So, her idea of "thy will be done," is 'I submit to my deeply flawed belief in a benevolent creator god, and anyone who does not buy into my deeply flawed belief system will burn in hell any way, so if I burn them at the stake, then I am helping my god out.' This type of thinking I believe is behind all of the marginalized mystics of the history of the world, which means they were most likely persecuted by the devout.  So, friends, beware of the devout.

How interesting for this to recur on my next post. Life is funny. I get the point. LOL. Beware of the devout. I got it. It's burned in there, now.

[Jhanananda]

"Minds are a recurring pattern. Just like there are many similar trees that recur on the planet, there are similar minds which recur in people. If you know trees in general, then you can know most things about most trees. In the same way, you can know most things about most minds. The former is called a "tree expert" while the latter is called "arrogant."

Sure, I agree, once we know our self at a deep level, then we can understand others at a deep level.  So, self-awareness will lead to understanding others.  It reminds me of a quote from Socrates.

the life which is unexamined is not worth living

[Jhanon]

Jhananda, I appreciate what you've said and especially the quote you provided.

I'm unsure if I sought vindication or to indirectly illustrate my frustration with humanity. In either case, it was most likely a self-indulgence. So i appreciate the gentleness of your response.