Little essays looking at the esoteric to exoteric of meanings and and understandings on a variety of sometimes neglected topics.
Saturday, January 15, 2022
Your Awareness
Esoteric to Exoteric: A few slightly esoteric thoughts about awareness. A hello to awareness.
Friday, January 7, 2022
A Brief Intro to Awareness
Esoteric to Exoteric: attempted with the word "awareness"
Awareness:
~ We may experience changing states. One change of state we may notice from time to time is an opening of awareness.
~ Early awareness could include an identification with appearances.
~ Another awareness may lead to noting an individualizing process.
~ One may note a gradual awakening.
~ One may come to note turning consciousness to the "levels" upon which one actually lives and functions.
The
word "awareness" comes from the word, aware. "Aware" comes from the
word "ware" which we hear little these days. It means watch, be on one's
guard, and take care; so, has to do with consciousness. "Aware" means
having knowledge, perception, or realization. Check out some of its
synonyms. Additional meanings include having knowledge and cognizance.
It is much about having knowledge and understanding. But it may refer to
a process and more.
by Richard Sheehan
Tuesday, August 3, 2021
We?
EsoExo: ""We" the people," dialogue
We
can agree that "we" is a relationship, can't we? When we agree to
relate it may be good to speak of the level at which we wish to relate.
At what level might it be good for us to relate? We could speak of the
reason for our relationship. How might we go about relating ? Might it
be important that we show our concern for our "we?"
What's in it for you? What's your interest?
How is a mutual or reciprocal relationship handled?
A "we" must consist of people, persons, individuals, right? Have you seen
the start of a "we?" Was there a kind of joining? Doesn't a "we" require some kind of maintenance?
What do you suspect, believe, or know about the "we" in the "We the people..." document?
That
"we" could refer to us. How do we go about keeping track of our common
interests? How do we reciprocate? "We the people" are a social
relationship.
Let's say that we are the people in the "We the people" we know about.
What is the nature of our relationship? What is reason for our relationship? What's in it for you?
"We"
implies a unity, a union. We can probably agree that better and worse
unions can be detected. How might we form a more perfect union?
You may have some notions of "we" stirring in your mind now.
Communication
is important. Talk, dialogue, discussion are important. Talk of "us"
and "we" may be so important as to be called vitally important.
I say that communication of persons is vitally important for the initiation and maintenance of a "we".
To be a good people we have to have a good "we".
We can learn.
We can contemplate.
RCS
Friday, June 18, 2021
Group and Self
Esoteric to Exoteric: You may want to consider this post a contemplation.
Many
of us seem to know more about group than we know about self. We seem to
have plenty of room to learn more about both group and self.
One
of the prime injunctions of wisdom teachings has been "Know thyself."
Learning seems to often be prior to knowing. Some wisdom teaching
suggests that learning may be a prime purpose of being.
Surely
an important part of being, includes learning. Learning about the world
around us seems an important move toward self knowledge. I believe that
learning about groups is an important part of learning about the world
around us.
My
experience informs me that there are qualities of learning. Before
going on you may want to consider the quality of your recent learning.
Participation in
a group is a learning experience. That learning and that experience
will be of varying quality. Much of such learning can lead to
knowledge of self. Some groups are more interesting and useful than
others. Some groups may be better for you than those which seems to suit
your present personality.
Most
groups are likely to be much more transitory than is personality, but
many of them last long enough to prove useful to their members. A
significant number of them last long enough to become a sort of school
of their members.
A
high level of regular participation by members has been important for a
group's effectiveness and longevity. We may call an effective and long
lived group an organization. In such an organization it may b vital
that each member know that she(or he)has an important job or place in
it. Being a practicing participatory democracy tends to increase the
level of group participation.
You can consider joining or forming a group. You may find power and growth in a group.
To
analyze your organization, to know it(and yourself)better, and to
participate more effectively in it, you and a friend may take some of
the actions suggested below:
~ Find out who has the authority to implement your organizational plans.
~ Know the action plan for for the long range funding of your organization.
~ Find out who is involved in developing your strategic plan.
~ Know your membership trends.
~ Consider the nature of your organization's benefits.
~ Know who is doing the bulk of the work to accomplish the goals of the organization.
~ Know what people do the work. Where are they? Identify them.
~ Make sure you know the engines of your organization.
You might also look for answers to the following questions about your organization and about your self:
~ What questions do you have about your organization and your membership in it?
~ How will you get answers to those questions?
~ What will you do about your questions and answers?
~ What makes it or you operate
~ What motivates you and other members?
Enjoy your growing power and that of your organization!
Learn more about you!
by Richard Sheehan
Thursday, May 27, 2021
Thoughts 0n Meditation
Esoteric to Exoteric: An Introduction to Meditation
Saturday, May 22, 2021
We Can; Let's
EsoExo: Sharing knowledge multiplies knowledge. Knowing and understanding are good doings.
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Woman and Girl
Esoteric to Exoteric: Talk, feelings, understanding, and experience.
She was young, about his age. She was speaking with an older woman she obviously cared for, but she was saying with some vehemence, "You just don't care."
The older woman seemed truly fond of the girl. Though she may have felt some hurt at the girl's words, she answered in kindly tones. He remembered what she said. She had said, "I have come to see that many things do not matter much, and that most things don't matter at all."
The girl answered, still with some feeling, "You don't care about anything."
The woman answered, a bit as though she were she were speaking to herself as much as to the girl, "I once knew an old gentleman who did not believe in "things."
After a few seconds the woman continued, "Your feelings matter to me very much, but I am not responsible for them."
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RCS
Unique One: That's you and each one of us.
Esoteric to Exoteric: Permit me to say that you are Unique
You are a unique, distinguished individual with a meaningful existence. You are responsible for the nature of the meaning in your life. That which you can offer to our culture is offered by no other.
You, like me, are a unique one. We are each, in an important sense, irreplaceable.
Feelings: A First Look
EsoExo: feelings and learning
Emotions and feelings are often an aid to learning. They may best be that aid when they are experienced one at a time, even when several may come in quick succession.
🤢😃😢😁😆😒 Artists interpret emotions. What feelings would you guess they are expressing here?