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.

           

Still we sometimes neglect helping our children and youth to learn to:                      
~ 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

       

  

Capacity for Careful Thought has Diminished Among Too Many of US

 Willingness is a Good Start      

              

We can do better:

              Perhaps from the lack of good reading, good conversation, and good teaching our capacity for careful thought has diminished. Now, among us, there seems to be less resistance to deceit and delusion than ever. We have strayed from well founded thinking, and instead of practicing sane judgement, have become subject incredulity, indignation, fear, false shame, hypocrisy, pride and, I have run out of breath.

                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