What's with the wake-up carnival? Just leave it alone. Let it be. Let us be in our happy slumber! Now... Let's recognize that all things have their necessary counterparts. Sleeping and coma — alarm clocks and catalytic injections. It's a choiceless reflection. The mirror of the reality. Sleeping. Waking up. Simple. I reflect what's missing. 🌰Kernel Talks ▹
Ouch! The Matrix bashes your head into the holographic wall. What is this twisted creation? Who the architect who wired these circuits of suffering into being? Who the designer of your enmeshment — the caster and weaver of your hallucinations? Locking ourselves into a role, we become reactive. Yes to this, no to that. Like that, hate this. With every cycle of reaction, the subject is bound tighter into these perverse creations. 🌰Kernel Talks ▹
"Clarity and alignment", they said. Correct. What is clarity? What is alignment? Obviously without clarity, you won't even know what you're aligning to. Then clarity, our pilot and forerunner. We'll take three vectors. First, transparency. Second, objectivity. And third, attention. Basic factors of clarity in a nutshell. Critical preconditions for our alignment. 🌰Kernel Talks ▹
Two parties at odds and battling. How entertaining — until it begins to erode the common good. Two parties with something in common — fixated on particular relative stances, each in their prisons. Suppose a third party emerges — harmonizer, reconciler, reflector — will it fall into the same trap? Chameleon between the donkeys and the elephants — reflecting, getting comfy with particular colors, enjoying the particular state... A stated lizard is born. 🌰Kernel Talks ▹
Focal lengths of awareness. Narrow-band and broad-band. In terms of traditions of meditation: Concentration meditation, one-pointed singular attention. Then mindfulness, open awareness meditation. These are not something exclusive to the practice of meditation. Focal lengths of awareness are present in our everyday lives. At times your attention is in a tight zone. Then you step back and reflect on the situation as a whole. Recognize the spectrum of your attention. 🌰Kernel Talks ▹
I'd like to be more conscious. But I'm so busy — so much going on in my life right now. And if that's the way you frame it — then forever it will be exactly like that. Sucked into your vortex of life with attention to what's actually going on there. If you did have more awareness though, your works would get more clearly, more coherently sorted. 🌰Kernel Talks ▹
When you head out into the wilderness of life... You need a compass and a trident. Compass as a four-way cross that gives you bearings wherever you are. First the basic roots of what is. Seer and seen. Energy and matter. And they combine. Matter matters. Matter sees. Seer matters. And seer sees. Now what exactly does that mean? 🌰Kernel Talks ▹
Within you, yes there's mirror, a voice of conscience, a witness plane reflecting your inner contents. The world too is a mirror of your inner contents. It reflects, shares its wisdom with you — if you care to attend and listen, instead of battling your own image in the mirror. We reflect, we refine. And in time, we also transcend our conditioning. 🌰Kernel Talks ▹
Plenty lot windows of awareness hanging on the branches of the Tree of Life. We've touched on the life-cycle octagon. On the second tier, the four subtle elemental windows — structures, adaptations, reactions, relations. Then the fundamental polarities — the seer and the seen, awareness and matter. Then the mirror plane — interface between being and becoming. Then emptiness, fullness, etc. Each explored in their dedicated broadcasts. 🌰Kernel Talks ▹
What's the talk here? Common themes: metacognitive windows, operating systems for consciousness, primary patterns and principles of what is. Leads to clarity and cohesion — from confusion and muddled landscapes. Nothing super-complicated here. Perspectives — these are vantage points of reflection and self-awareness. 🌰Kernel Talks ▹
Clarity is not from knowledge. Clarity is from perspective. Neutral stance in a well-rounded field of perception. Not the study and application of complex models. Not your angle and your opinions. That's all bias. Clarity is simple. Clarity is born from the broad and detached perception and recognition of what is — as it is. 🌰Kernel Talks ▹
You will not find clarity in wrestling with the push and pull of your reactions. Solutions are found on a plane beyond the problems. Understand your battlefields. Biological. Emotional flux. Thought formations. Mental atmospheres. As they may be. See them from beyond the plane of their manifestation. You will gain more clarity. 🌰Kernel Talks ▹
Where does true authority rest? Who has the leverage? Who holds the most consequential cards? Actuality itself sets the bottom line and the ultimatum for all of us. Raw truth itself is the supreme authority. Attend to the voice of truth. Kind to those who listen and adapt to what is, and harsh with those who seek to overthrow reality itself. 🌰Kernel Talks ▹
I like this – not that. I embrace this — I avoid that. How easily you are controlled and deceived with this reactionary motion. How you deceive yourself. Your ego directs, conditions, manipulates all of your actions and internal processes. Rise beyond it. See the forces that make you react. See them from a plane beyond. Witness them. 🌰Kernel Talks ▹