Conditioning - past projected into future

Nov 14

Such irony. I always said that I don't want to learn new things. And here, I am learning day by day about myself, people around me and the Universe.
I am a true seeker, the ultimate learner. Perhaps, I said I didn't want to learn other things because I am already a learner, by virtue on me being a seeker.

Evening
Did 2 articles.

Diamond Heart
Eventually, we were taught how to react to these concepts; what we could and could not touch, what to value, what to desire and what to reject; we even learned what to be happy and sad about - we then called these reactions our "preferences".
It then condition how we view ourselves and our world, how we think and how we respond to what happens around us. They create our everyday reality and we use them to interpret all our experience.

Concept begin as fluid and flexible, but become more fixed as we mature. When we are first learning a concept, such as 'space' or 'awareness', we are most receptive to nuances around it; we may play with it for a while, question it and explore its possibilities. Once we feel we 'know' it, we tend to lose interest.
Our willingness to re-examine, discard or expand the scope of the concept decreases; the word is no longer alive, no longer subject to modification in light of new knowledge, but frozen into an item of information that we possess. We rely on it automatically in our thinking, which becomes a matter of recollection, than a creative active.

Soul
Very precise description of conditioning.

Diamond Heart
Thinking itself is not necessarily uncreative. But thinking is uncreative when it is a matter of recollecting concepts from the past, or a matter of logically stringing together concepts, like a computer. It does not invent anything new. When we live and know through our established concepts, we don't have anything new in our lives. We use our words to relate thing about the past, to relate old concepts and memories. So, our expression, our thinking, is dead.

Soul
Suddenly tot no wonder GM is so fixed. At least CEO is more open. Tot of me, I can also be fixed.

Diamond Heart
Thinking can be creative when we allow ourselves to be open to what is beyond concepts. Then even words, even thinking can express that reality, can creatively unfold like a fountain of insights coming from explosive perceptions of non-conceptual reality. Thinking can be spontaneous, original and creative when it directly expresses the experience of the moment. This is true communication.

Soul
Tot of me. My perception in my articles arise from my experience of the moment.

Diamond Heart - projections
We never, or rarely, allow ourselves simply to perceive. We simply project a past situation into future