A Treasure chest

Rusty

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Along with Kismet's signature "We have so much", and Howard Wallace's ever sagacious posts, I'd like to tell you about the treasure chest I keep in my head.

I've been meaning to get a blank bound book to inscribe events in, rather than relying on my memory, but that is yet to happen.

My treasure chest contains moments.

Moments of accomplishment, to be sure, but more the moments I meant something to another, or I experienced they honestly valued me.

Yvsa, one of those moments came when you gave me something precious to you.

Uncle, when you left the forum with me to go back to Nepal is another moment to be taken out again and again and treasured.

Munk, we've not yet met in this life, but I know I have a brother in you.

Mostly the moments relate to something beautiful happening between me and another. Moments shared.

A mystical experience on the reservation when I danced outside my body, when my heart felt it was bursting into full bloom.

Walking down the hall to inform the nurses that my father had expired, knowing I'd been with him to the end.

added on edit: Pala telling me I am a Buddhist and giving me a double dorge on a neck chain.

also added on edit: Finding my avatar belt buckle at a dance in honor of a friend, when I thought my soul had been killed, learning my soul could still bloom even if it had turned blue.

I want to write them down so I can remember instead of letting them drift away. So when times seem tough for all, I can take it out and remember by reading that I'm still the same person I was.

Must be time for my medication.
 
The movie. Joe Pecsi's character did just that with stones. Picked up during events to remember, they could be taken out, turned around, relived, then put away. When he wanted to remember, taken out again.

A nice post, Rusty.

Brian
 
So that's why Neil Diamond's Some Days are Diamonds, Some Days are Stones kept running thru my head this week?
 
When they transpired, you were fully present... When you recally them, you are also doing so in the present... The past and future are really illusions that kkep you from being here in reality; the present.

Sounds like these magic moments relived through neuro-linguistic programming are powerful medicines in their own right. :)

Thanks for sharing, Rusty.

Dan :)
 
And thanks. Me, I have to have something burned into memory, and that ain't always good. By the time i'm deed, my brain'll be burnt black!

Keith
 
Originally posted by Josh Feltman
Drdan-- are you a student of the Fourth Way?
--Josh
Click to expand...

No I'm not, Josh, although I have tremendous respect for Gurdjieff. I learned a Gurdjieffian dance movement in India that I've adapted to martial arts that is quite a good way to be present if you will. The first 3 ways are way too arduous, and fraught with failure... :D Any technique or device that enables one to discover the on/off switch of the though process is useful, and Gurdjieff was a true Master in this sense. Stop! :D Ouspensky was not a Master, being definitely caught up in the mind, as are many modern day teachers...
 
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