Super Blogging is Esoteric
I feel that to
create
operate
maintain
enhance
promote
reply to the comments at
and update
a new,
super blog,
requires peculiar skills,
like Stoic endurance,
Spartan existence,
hard mental discipline.
BLOG is MIND
Let's look into some basic
instructions and descriptions
from the Yoga Sutras
(Threads of Union)
of Patanjali,
translated by BonGiovanni.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/
hin/yogasutr.htm
Before beginning any spiritual text it is customary to clear the mind of all distracting thoughts, to calm the breath and to purify the heart.
[The first 13 stanzas of Part One]
1.1 Now, instruction in Union.
1.2. Union is restraining the thought-streams natural to the mind.
1.3. Then the seer dwells in his own nature.
1.4. Otherwise he is of the same form as the thought-streams.
1.5. The thought-streams are five-fold, painful and not painful.
1.6. Right knowledge, wrong knowledge, fancy, sleep, and memory.
1.7. Right knowledge is inference, tradition, and genuine cognition.
1.8. Wrong knowledge is false, illusory, erroneous beliefs, or notions.
1.9. Fancy is following after word-knowledge [that is] empty of substance [empty rhetoric, nonsense about nothing, drivel].
1.10. Deep sleep is the modification of the mind which has for its substratum nothingness.
1.11. Memory is not allowing mental impressions to escape [clinging to past events].
1.12. These thought-streams are controlled by practice and non-attachment.
1.13. Practice is the effort to secure steadiness.
[END QUOTED SEGMENT of Patanjali]
[STREIGHT commentary]:
UNION of BLOG and YOGA, explained...
What does blogging have in common with yoga mind science?
I see the connection, the mental link, being focus.
BLOG FOCUS
When we meditate on a metaphysical object,
we focus in an extra-ordinary manner.
When we write blog posts,
we focus in a super-ordinary manner.
Blogging is more than self-expression.
Blogging is more than post writing.
Blogging is more than idea transmission.
Blogging is more than social reorganization.
Blogging is more than user interaction.
Blogging is...
...personal transformation.
A blog post form,
in which we type in
our writings that contain
our thinkings,
is a mental mirror.
What do you see in
your bloggy mental mirror?
What enters the form
is what comes from within.
To Publish Post is
to Manifest Mind.
We strive to publish
blog posts
that are free of
the modifications of
MIND.
That is, we seek to only
manifest pure mind,
Mind in Its
Nature as Light.
Pure Light Mind
with
no hatred
no envy
no craving
no cruelty
no greed
no confusion
no deception
no manipulation
no exploitation.
To achieve this,
we practice choiceless
observation of
the movements of Mind.
This is called Meditation.
This is called Mindfulness.
This is called Indifference.
This
Meditation
steadies us as we
compose blog posts.
This
Mindfulness
energizes us as we
compose blog posts.
This
Indifference
instructs us as we
compose blog posts.
[signed] Steven Streight aka Vaspers the Grate aka Leopold the Told
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