This is the entry page for the website where all things come together so as to make looking a tad bit easier. But the goal here is not one of looking but of seeing. Feel free to browse around but please take your time as realization sometimes takes a while to really sink in - especially when we busy ourselves fighting it by being in a hurry to get through life and living. What’s the rush!?
Unfortunately for show biz, there will be very little in the way of entertaining content here on this web site. Lovely pictures to induce one to imagine lovely thoughts and feelings will not be found here. Musical notes to send one to faraway galaxies to bask in the glorious feeling of being alive will also be non-existent. Fun and enticing content to draw in the visitor so as to seek and retain visitor traffic is also dismissed out of hand(1).
Even though all that is found here can be considered in the light of entertainment there is a remarkable difference between show business and the urge to overcome oneself in the pursuit of what lies beyond. Where our attention is set, there it produces results.
There are plenty of shining beacons out in the spotlight dancing the latest and the greatest. If one wishes for such entertainment please close the door right now and leave this abode, there will be nothing of value or purpose to be found here as everything here goes against the grain. For a safe and comfortable existence, for an existence where the view of yourself is of utmost and invaluable importance, then you will be much better served to slide on right out the door to other more suitable environs.
For those who can embrace and actually take to heart their own sense of beingness then it will be found that life will shortly outlive it’s usefulness and that is exactly the fine line where this web site takes stock.
Against all odds, we are. Nothing can change that and no one can deny it. We exist because we contain the knowledge of being. We know that we are through our exhibition of activity and so we can, and do, anything and everything possible in order to keep alive this wonder of beingess called ‘me’.
“I am so that others may live.”
Without others, without this created separation or sense of being, we are not. To the exclusion of all else, we find that we are. In a relation of separation we live our lives enamored of life and especially happiness. In so becoming, we solidify our uniqueness and glory in it expecting others to do the same for us. As we embrace ourselves as the center of all we relish me and mine. Finally, we refuse any and all things which is not ‘I’. “I am that I am and nothing can take that away.”
In taking the back country roads we come to experience and live life to it’s fullest, enjoying and relishing it’s rewards. We take our time as we pass through each and every small town all across the universe making sure that we have missed nothing. In this long and arduous journey we keep ourselves entertained by becoming one thing or another, by changing our characteristics in order to leave no stone unturned in which to glorify ourselves. What marvel we are!
Fright takes us to many places but above all, it takes us to another step closer to who or what we really are. Through tantalizing experience we get to see what we are made of but since our making all originates out of our selves to begin with we end up far removed from whence we came. Fear requires action whether denoted by ‘no action’ or frenetic activity something must be done and quickly! The urge to make it all go away is unmistakable but since we already embody this fear who is it that encounters such difficulty in it’s acceptance? By running away we show what we are made of, or more correctly, what we embody. We can run but we cannot hide. Never will we ever be able to hide from our selves.
Facing one’s destiny is nothing but an imagined idea of what ‘will be’. Since the future is out of phase with current time, it becomes useless for our purpose. Whether diving into the past or rushing head-long into the future, when we leave the present we come to be “long gone”. Nothing happens but in this exact moment, in this exact ‘time’. Moving attention into other realms, other times and places will do nothing in surmising our own nature. In fact, no matter where we look, all that we can do is ‘seek’, we cannot ‘find’. Where-ever and when-ever we place the attention of the mind, there we become rooted. One cannot live until one learns to be ‘here’.
Mindless Wanderings · Local Information · Foundation · Other Times, Other Places
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Here you will find the most current articles, etc. but to start off, take a look at the Self page as a sort of introduction to and about your self. Look in the mirror and say “Hi”. Then realize that it is you who is looking out at an image that you created of your self and calling it “you”. How funny is that!? You can’t point to your self because you are not a object. All that you can do is realize your own nature. So have at it.
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This section contains some background information on and about this website. There is nothing special here. One place to look for the most recently added/updated pages to this website is to check the Recent Activity page or the more readable Latest Posts page. If you would like, go ahead and leave a message in the Guest Book or if you have a question, or even an answer, let ’em fly over at the Question & Answer page. For no good reason there is also a Latest News And Views page.
If you are up to it, you can roll the dice and get a random page or even a random quote displayed right before your very eyes. Good stuff.
It’s true. Various articles and such have been collected and thrown together into some sort of package deal called Containing Eternity. There are probably a few things in there that are worthwhile, but I’ve been wrong before. :-)
* Update: The contents of this book were extracted from the Mindless Wanderings section, so to keep things short this section has been eliminated.
All beliefs, concepts, philosophies and what have you are all built upon some core guiding principal. This collection, although a bit high on the ability to understand scale, is superb in providing at least a small glimpse into our nature. For some, they provide a huge vista of understanding while others have a difficult time reading the meaning behind the words. Something for everyone!
Ashtavakra Gita · Crest Jewel of Wisdom · The Dhammapada · Various Other
This might be considered the ‘out there’ section of Gathering Minds. For some reason, some wild and wacky stuff gets written and what better place to dump it all then here, where anything goes. Of course all of the concepts and ideas presented here are merely a ruse to capture the minds interest and then to do things with it. Calisthenics! Ready? Push-ups, one, two, three... Sit-ups, one, two, three... Look over there, one, two, three...
Also included in this section are selected items from the Free Zone America Archives.