Little essays looking at the esoteric to exoteric of meanings and and understandings on a variety of sometimes neglected topics.
Sunday, April 2, 2023
Our Visitors Seem Like This
Monday, January 2, 2023
We Have a Capacity for Careful Thought
Our Goodness:
Our practice of good reading, good conversation and our ongoing learning maintains our capacity for careful thought with no damage to our creativity. Among us there is continued resistance to deceit and delusion. We have stayed on the way of well founded thinking and the road of sane judgement and so, continue able to resist incredulity, indignation, fear, false shame, hypocracy, pride, and I have run out of breath.
By avoiding too much pride and having abundant care for ourselves, we have succeeded in allowing ourselves to do that which is useful for others and pleasant for ourselves.
We have remembered the meaningfulness of our work, and the value of the thinking and sweat we put into our work. We know that thinking and working up a sweat is sane and healthy. We are pleased with our awareness of the value of moderation.
It is amazing and pleasing to know that we are capable of such goodness.
We have remembered the significance of work without putting too much thought or sweat into it. We attend to the value of balance. One marvels at that which we can do.
~ be cautious in sex and to avoid promiscuity.
~ to be outwardly courteous to all, but inwardly remain free to never put to much trust in anyone or anything. This while remembering that with so little faith in the light switch that they fail to switch it to on, they may spend much time in the dark.
~ be with the work they love and to love the work they are with and to find the usefulness and pleasure in it and to find the joy in it as well as in the cash it brings.
~ be open to new ideas and new discoveries.
~ to let abundant consideration and reconsideration of doings, feelings, processes, emotions, and happenings into their lives.
~ help their day dreams to be realistic.
~ Remember that reality is a way to sanity.
~ let their doings be pleasing to themselves and useful to others.
~ love their parents and to be aware that it is good to see them realistically,
It can be good for us to remember that the lessons we offer our youth and children may be usefully applied to ourselves.
As a gift to ourselves we can reconstitute and fortify our capacity for careful thought and its usefulness with the following doings:
~ Encourage our willingness to be more aware of our actual state of being.
~ Take time for quite contemplation of that which has recently(and perhaps for long)has seemed important to us. This in not a time for figuring things out.
~ Arrange opportunity for relaxed, thoughtful, conversation.
Thank you for reading. I may read it again, again.
rcs
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
This Web Site
EsoExo: Use All the Search Apps You Want.
This web site does not yet have many posts or essays, but our associated sites may have over 400. This may be a good place to practice using our search apps to explore and find what you want and that which interests you.
You may have noticed that this site has a three column configuration. All of our associated sites have a similar configuration. You are now on a middle/central column. The columns to the left and right of this column and mostly dedicated to search applications. However, there are also other kinds of apps. For example near, or at, the top of this site and all associated sites is a translation app. There you can find a language in which you prefer to read, click on it, and the post which you are on will be translated to your language before your eyes.
I suggest that you take some time to explore the apps available to you. When you take a look at the translation application you might find it interesting to scroll to the bottom of the same column. There you will find a list of years and months. Click on a month of a year which interests you and the posts published at that time will be presented to you.
If you have a difficulty with an app you may go to the "comments" app just below the bottom of this post. Click on it and space will appear where you can tell me about your difficulties, ask questions, make suggestions, or just make a comment.
Happy explorations and pleasant reading.
RCS
Friday, April 8, 2022
Capacity for Careful Thought has Diminished Among Too Many of US
Willingness is a Good Start
We can do better:
It seems that from our pride and lack of care for ourselves, we have failed to allow ourselves to strive to do that which is useful for others and pleasant for ourselves.
We seem to have forgotten the meaning of work, although we often put much thinking and sweat into our doings.
We sometimes neglect teaching our children and youth to:
~ be cautious in sex and not to be promiscuous.
~ be outwardly courteous to all, but inwardly to remain free and never to put too much trust in anyone or any thing. This while remembering that if one has so little faith in the light switch that one does not use it, one may remain in the dark.
~ love work because it is useful and pleasing, and not because of payment by others, but rather for the joy the find in their work.
~ be open to new thoughts and new learnings.
~ devote some time to considering and reconsidering: emotions, feelings, doings, happenings, and processes.
~ remember that reality is the way to sanity and that the road of honesty may serve almost as well.
~ let their doings be useful to others and pleasing to themselves.
~ love and respect their parents as they learn to see them realistically.
As a gift to ourselves, we can try to reconstitute or to fortify our capacity for careful thought with the following doings:
~ Develop our willingness to be more aware of our actual state of being, including feelings, emotions, and understandings.
~ Taking time for quiet contemplation of that which recently has been important. This is not a time for figuring things out.
~ Arrange opportunity for relaxed, thoughtful conversation or reading.
Thank you for reading.
rcs