My next nine posts will deal with my own insights and ramblings about the Nine Noble Virtues. In my mind they are located along a Mobius band, no inside, no outside, wrapped like a lazy eight or infinity loop. Listing the nine is easy enough, but as I will try to elucidate over the coming moon and a third or so, each and their interrelationship withing a spiritual quest. Said quest is primarily intended to delve deeply into both generosity and courage, simply because one of my own tribe has brought these two issues to the fore. Readers that have stayed with this blog for a while know that my practice of the give away is a rite that is often rewarded many times over. Just a few specific examples are when I gave away about $130 dollars worth of equipment to someone who really could use it, within a week, someone gave me over $1,000 worth of building materials I desperately needed. another time, we gave away something a guest had commented on, it was a tool worth over $35 bucks, but they had an immediate need for it, so we let it go. Late that morning, catching the tail end of the farmer's market, last one of the season, we bargained for a whole trunk load of an old boat-like automobile, full of Brussels sprouts, when cleaned, there were 35 pounds of food for five bucks. I needed soil once and my aunt happened to be visiting and she sprung for the dirt, getting our initial gardens started fifteen or more years ago. The trend continues...the closer I try to live my life in accord with nature, to spread my abundance and methods, because I want everyone to experience the Earth the way it was intended to be experienced.
Quiet is probably one of the first casualties of a fossil fueled existence. believe me, I know, I buy the poison too. the addiction that our "civilization" has with fossil energy is heinous. I lived for many years in coal country. I know the pain the industry wrests upon society, the desolation left behind after the boom. we see the results of not living up to the nine noble virtues each and every day. That is the reason i write. To teach, to prod, to beg plead or cajole, but to get the message out thatr new times are coming and new soulutions (soul-evolutions) will be necessary to come to terms with the new world that will be created. New sense of community, more interdependence withon local regions and areas will reduce the need for transit as we know it. Silence is the mantra of the coming age. noise is wasted energy. My time signature has always been askew. Often that means that during the quietest times of day (or night) I would be up and about. Making art, writing, reading, telling stories around campfires. this truly is the dawning of the age of Aquarius, we have the water bearers among us today, the futurists that are co-imagining possible futures. The kryptonite that exists for the oligarchs is that we are evolving past necessities. I have seen many people who walked away from a fully furnished house with not much more than they had on their back, because wherever they were headed has a re-sale shop, Salvation Army, thrift shoppe or other source for all the stuff they left behind. Skillet, pan, pot ten bucks, wardrobe, twenty (or less). It really is not worth transporting all that stuff.
Quiet of mind follows from quiet spaces. Transforming our energy infrastructure to renewable electric is getting cheaper by the week. Thinking things through is the easy part, making choices the spin the wheel in the direction we want to go is more important than ever and that is why I choose to speak to these noble virtues now. I suppose I need to start with the list,
Truth
Honor
Fidelity
Discipline
Hospitality
Self-reliance
Perseverance
Courage
Industry
I'm not sure which will be first of last, but any relationship first to last or ranked order automatically misses the point. all of these are operating at once, integral to each are all. Optimal behavior moment to moment is predicated on the embodiment of all of these virtues simultaneously. The reason we think of these aspects as separate is because we have words for each. Truly, they are all one. The fact that I will, hopefully, write something worth reading over the next moon and a third or so is only possible because I had to learn all of these things for myself, with very little guidance or external interference. for decades, I have wanted to meet a young mathematician and create the right proof of something that exists beyond our ability to measure or record, a simple relationship between gravity and magnetism that creates standing and resonant waves, standing waves and ethereal vortecies that we will one day understand, perhaps measure and accept as fact. as yet, the right candidate has not shown up, but that is no guarantee they won't. long time readers, again, will recognize the usefulness of the phrase, What are the chances? 100%!
Quiet is probably one of the first casualties of a fossil fueled existence. believe me, I know, I buy the poison too. the addiction that our "civilization" has with fossil energy is heinous. I lived for many years in coal country. I know the pain the industry wrests upon society, the desolation left behind after the boom. we see the results of not living up to the nine noble virtues each and every day. That is the reason i write. To teach, to prod, to beg plead or cajole, but to get the message out thatr new times are coming and new soulutions (soul-evolutions) will be necessary to come to terms with the new world that will be created. New sense of community, more interdependence withon local regions and areas will reduce the need for transit as we know it. Silence is the mantra of the coming age. noise is wasted energy. My time signature has always been askew. Often that means that during the quietest times of day (or night) I would be up and about. Making art, writing, reading, telling stories around campfires. this truly is the dawning of the age of Aquarius, we have the water bearers among us today, the futurists that are co-imagining possible futures. The kryptonite that exists for the oligarchs is that we are evolving past necessities. I have seen many people who walked away from a fully furnished house with not much more than they had on their back, because wherever they were headed has a re-sale shop, Salvation Army, thrift shoppe or other source for all the stuff they left behind. Skillet, pan, pot ten bucks, wardrobe, twenty (or less). It really is not worth transporting all that stuff.
Quiet of mind follows from quiet spaces. Transforming our energy infrastructure to renewable electric is getting cheaper by the week. Thinking things through is the easy part, making choices the spin the wheel in the direction we want to go is more important than ever and that is why I choose to speak to these noble virtues now. I suppose I need to start with the list,
Truth
Honor
Fidelity
Discipline
Hospitality
Self-reliance
Perseverance
Courage
Industry
I'm not sure which will be first of last, but any relationship first to last or ranked order automatically misses the point. all of these are operating at once, integral to each are all. Optimal behavior moment to moment is predicated on the embodiment of all of these virtues simultaneously. The reason we think of these aspects as separate is because we have words for each. Truly, they are all one. The fact that I will, hopefully, write something worth reading over the next moon and a third or so is only possible because I had to learn all of these things for myself, with very little guidance or external interference. for decades, I have wanted to meet a young mathematician and create the right proof of something that exists beyond our ability to measure or record, a simple relationship between gravity and magnetism that creates standing and resonant waves, standing waves and ethereal vortecies that we will one day understand, perhaps measure and accept as fact. as yet, the right candidate has not shown up, but that is no guarantee they won't. long time readers, again, will recognize the usefulness of the phrase, What are the chances? 100%!
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