Notes on Types of Mindfulness Texts
A Zen Masterclass, Philosophically Investing in Each Reader’s Resiliency, Intelligence, and Option to Disengage until Later.
This essay is entirely a matter of opinion. Copyright © 2022 Talon 38 Personal Media, LLC.
A New Contribution to the Field of Mindfulness
Playful and Sober Zen mildly self-asserts, with equanimity, that application of personal judgement is ongoing during all timestep Taos, lest one is fully unconscious. This is in contrast to the silencing trends, since 1990, with resultant numbing of minds to the judgment that is always personal, and without which we would pass out.
Without judging, there is no assessing; without assessing, there is no awareness.
An Advisory to Readers of Texts Written on Mindfulness
Lao Tzu’s teachings, as translated by those writers of texts who might have been formerly inculcated into aggressively persuasive writing techniques, do in many cases often spark debates concerning the living of his/their/ancient’s life.
Gladly, that presently does not pertain to future tense orientation, unless preferring to study contemporary renditions of texts written to provide closure from the long since lesser knowable histories, those continually receding to unaided recall. (Desktop user’s might glance at the time displayed on one’s own screen.)
Leading the reader too authoritatively, often placates the reader unfairly, when preceding complex logic presentations. In contrast, leading a reader too little, once a reader’s attention has been piqued, would fail to deliver with packet integrity. Providing further contextual words can prevent dangling context, by adding enough additional wording to successfully regroup earlier words mentioned. This provides the reader better closure. This might better explain my eccentric and postgraduate writing style.
Only a few of the myriad re-re-accounts of the Tao Te Ching seem written without embedding rites of passage with which the reader must wrangle. They are few among the many renditions I have skimmed or read. The introduction to each seems to begin with excellent and receptive co-humor.
Spoken Voice and Depicted Text are Actually Recommended
Lao Tzu seems to introduce the subject with a very reasonable readiness check, available for later further reference, quite conveniently.
- Maybe a person who speaks (or writes) of the Tao does prefer his or her limited awareness of the Tao to include foreknown awareness of personal size, being less than all external Tao, and also being in size greater than the entirety of bodily Tao.
Tao could be alternatively better considered as the summation of all ways, behaviors, doings, processes, and happenings, ongoing presently. Doing is ongoing while trying. Molecular motion is Tao and Doing is Tao.
- Maybe a (fictional) person who knows (completely) the Tao, does not speak or write of the Tao.
Mild smile lightens without devaluing other merits.
The relieving beauty, with Nature’s scientific freedom from there being “just one and only one way,” lies in the many differing usages of the verb “to know,” and the many differing scopes and detail levels of “ways” and “means.”
Complete Awareness of Truth Lies Beyond Prescience
Humanly limited awareness applies great doubt as to the details of future-tense happenings, whether conceiving of the term, and whether aware of the term’s true meaning. The concept is the beautiful idea, though many readers might choose to continue disuse of the term in public.
Humanly limited awareness includes peripheral awareness of recent past tense happenings being certainly complete with no doubt as to those action suites having been reconciled to very recent history, regardless of memory, observational, or descriptive acuity.
Humanly limited awareness varies with time interplay.
Entropy’s True Beauty — Give/Receive Milliseconds-scale Alternation
Fair variation of rights of way defies neutralization, stalemate, and perfect balance gridlock. That can only be grasped by taking slivers of time into account as the prime driver in living life. This alternation is not plottable by any mathematical wave, due to beautiful nuances and patterns never again repeatable. (Milliseconds-scale indicates on the order of < 1 msec to 3000 msec, merely in notion of the idea, and in no attempt to empirically discover.)
Service/Psychology Professional Education Systems Dangerous Teachings
The main factors, to multi-person time-aware interplay, concern the alternation between which person does the verbal output activity, toward his or her own self-actualization, while the other kindly serves as facilitator. Passive-aggressive techniques are educationally indoctrinated in many professions aiming to enjoy the job of serving others.
The Tao and Zen Prevalancy Rises with Outspokenness, and Falls with Silence
Quotable of mine: “Humankind self-manages, implicitly.”
Between each of us are speeds of light, speeds of neurotransmission, speeds of heat transfer, speeds of muscle contractions, speeds of sound, and more. Speed is life. Underdoing is the side from which to lean away. Be not made to underdo.
— a Budding Master
