Hi Ron, I have been thinking about *caring.* Might it be said that there is a *caring* that is quite natural and spontaneous, and there is a *caring* that represents something more like bondage? Marsha
On Jul 20, 2013, at 12:53 PM, X Acto <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > [Marsha] > It might be difficult for those who have not practiced mindful-awareness to > imagine functioning without any accompanying linguistic narration > > [Arlo] > To the contrary, I wish some people would go live their lives without any > accompanying linguistic narration. > > Ron: > You said it, > > It is what I have had to practice lately, by the simple virtue of just being > overwhelmed. I have had to make decisions on the fly > I have had to push through physical limitations all in a drive for > "betterness". I've taken the time to respond mostly by wanting > to say that I have been finding your posts very meaningful and also because > Marsha's use of the term mindful-awareness has > caught my attention. > I take her meaning of the term to imply a "carefulness" since both mindful > and aware equate to the same thing which would > lead me to conclude that a "mindful" awareness is a "careful" awareness and a > careful awareness is an awarness aimed at > betterness. > This bringing me back to my own aim at betterness, my careful awareness, my > push through physical limitations and my > cessastion of any accompanying linguistic narration. The "just do it." part > of the drive mostly achieved by an intellectual ideal > I have cultured, a "care" above all others that I must continually redefine > and clarify in order for it to hold the meaning required > for the drive to be executed and sustained. > > It just makes me aware how important that intellectual ideal is, how its > formed and it's overarching aim. > > For instance I was just made aware that in order to succeed at my aim of a > better life for my family I must also take > my own well-being into account. I had coped with the typical suffering and > reward type cycle, now I am faced with > re-thinking my reward structure and how I conceive of what "reward" really > means to me in my aim. Forcing me > to make the quality distinction between counter-productive rewards and > productive ones. > > But it was when I could establish what I cared most about and why that the > form of the good became clearer to me > in that it influenced my perception of the immediate now and my participation > in it. > > To me, this is practicing mindful awareness but somehow I get the feeling > thats not what she meant. > > .. > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
