Let your goals reach you
2014/04/07 8 Comments
I feel an inner urge to express what I see, to communicate and share with others all these impressions. Often the things I see are there, not yet manifest, but waiting... to be observed, talked about, and embraced.
These new insights need another approach, a more vivid curiosity...
Due to fear and prejudice we prefer to see only "the official" truth - but THE OFFICIAL TRUTH IS DEAD - being dead, it has nothing to give...
We can continue pretending Death is fascinating or... we can take the trouble to LIVE...
THE NEW has no definition yet...
Again, IT requires another "perception", the courage to apprehend everything differently, from a totally new angle, with new confidence and inquisitive touch. This blog is not about interesting concepts, it is about participation... finding new solutions, inspiration, togetherness.
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Julien Matei
Mirrors of Encounters 
+1
Often the goal in the future is about obtaining something you lack, the underlining goal is to fix your ego and therefore make you happy somehow.
The problem with that approach is usually than an unhappy ego cannot do the necessary work to make itself happy: the ego survival’s mechanisms resist change, or, the more the hurt ego is put in motion, the more it produces even more hurt ego. By reaffirming the existence of the hurt / incomplete ego which needs a fix, you only reaffirm a hurt / incomplete ego which needs a fix.
The second problem is that the fix is in the future and now in the now. Ego can visualise a future where everything works, because the future doesnt exist. Wanting something on the future is an evasion on the now, and evading the now is in a major way what’s really causing pain on that ego (and its inventing that ego). Pushing away stuff to the future can happen all along the way from this moment to the actual goal, which means that even if the goal is acquired the ego will remain untouched, aka, pushing the fix to a new future.
The third problem and probably the main one is that ego doesnt know shit about what will fix it. Any ego projection is just another way the ego is trying to validate itself. The goal is quite possible not what is needed, but what feels convenient. The whole thing is probably a safe fake.
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Still we need goals and actions and stuff, and there’s nothing wrong with wanting stuff and producing change. I have several approaches, see what works for you:
1) Quit the goal. Contemplate the goal and all the happy situation you’re going for and quit it. Contemplate that void / sadness / death and pull all the energy, tension, projection back to you. Quit and inhale the impostor.
2) Teleport. The goal is there because of something. If you had X then you would Y. So put yourself in the future already, make it your now, and move from there and make Y, or teleport to Y and move to Z. Or, what would you do if you had X, what if you are X already, what now? what if you were already happy, what if you were whole, what if. What if the sensation that you lack any or all of it is an illusion that can you can awake from. Or, instead of being incomplete and moving towards complete, figure what your complete person would do and do that. Be there already, now.
3) Do. Do the actual stuff, the actual steps when there are actual steps (practice, body of work, skills) without the ego. Make it an act of meditation. Make the actual doing a quitting (1), do the process because of the process, not because of the goal. Do the process because you’re already there (2) and this is what you do because you already are, and not because you want to become. Because the imagined become is really a non becoming.
Hope that adds something.
and a song I wrote recently about this! Chasing Halves
———
What if you had a million
Dollars
If you could dream
Who would you be?
What if you didn’t have
Excuses
Who would you be
If you were free
What if the world
is an illusion
To keep us trapped
Chasing halves
What if all we have
Is this moment
Who would you be
If you were free
So what if…
You don’t play
You don’t say
You don’t play
You don’t say
You don’t play
What if…
* * *
What if they’re wrong
What if we’re strong
What is all this…
Have you thought about it?
Which half is gold
Which half is mud
Which half is…
The one you care about?
What if we’re gods
What if we’re whole
What is all this…
Have you thought about it?
Have you thought about it…
Really thought about it?
* * *
What if our gold
Had no value
But still our shine
Would light the sky
What would you choose
If you were happy
Who would you be
If you were free?
So what if…
You don’t play
You don’t say
You don’t play
You don’t say
You don’t play
What if…
* * *
What if they’re wrong
What if we’re strong
What is all this…
Have you thought about it?
Which half is gold
Which half is mud
Which half is…
The one you care about?
What if we’re gods
What if we’re whole
What is all this…
Have you thought about it?
Have you thought about it…
Really thought about it?
* * *
We should know better
We oughta know better
We’re gonna know better
We’re gotta do better
‘Cause baby, we are all there is
‘Cause baby, I’ve got the shine in me
* * *
What if you had a million
Dollars
If you could dream
Who would you be?
Indeed:
Who would you be
If you were free…?
The world is an illusion which keeps us trapped in the process of “looking for” ourselves.
I would love to hear the whole song – I mean with music 🙂 For the record I heard one of your songs. You have a great voice.
I have to ponder on your comment and till get back in due time.
*The second problem is that the fix is in the future and NOT in the now.
I’ll send you some when its recorded. Man all the stuff I have online is horrible, but thanks 🙂
No rush. Whenever feels right. 🙂
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