Resist Resistance.
Resist the urge to not do something, you know what I mean, that voice that tells you, you don’t need to do something because it will be difficult, take effort, cause you pain, make you think… yea that voice!
How often we sit and think… I should do that, or I should do this, or that, this is a good idea to go and do that thing. Then that voice of resistance creeps in and says, just sit there a little longer, you deserve it, wait until you have more energy. That voice says so many things to get you to be lazy, fat, out of shape and of course decrease your testosterone, which truly is the only thing that signifies that you are a man.
Resist that voice, tell it to shut the fuck up! That voice is the biggest killer of men and manly things. We work our asses of our whole lives and that voice will tell you in your elder years, take a break, you deserve it, but what it is really doing is aging you, slowing your metabolism down, making you weaker, breaking down your joints and bones, ... taking your man card away. RESIST IT!!!!
Just like resistance training increases strength and muscle and is good for the body, resisting that little sissy voice in your head will make your will stronger, make your mind stronger.
So get off your ass and do something challenging, something, difficult, something physical, something that voice is telling you not to do.
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Saturday, January 7, 2017
Friday, January 6, 2017
I was trolling the internet today and come to the conclusion
how much time I have wasted reading other people’s stuff on the internet that I
agree with, and, well, if I agree with it why am I reading their stuff and not
creating my own. Maybe it is the effort it takes to write stuff down (well type
stuff) I don't know?..?. Maybe.. who knows. But time for a change.
As an example, I was reading these pages, the Third Way Man
and, the Art of Manliness and I was like, right on man… right on. Then I
thought to myself, these guys are making money off of their thoughts and I was
like WTF? Why don’t I do that. Then I remembered about this Blogspot I created
years ago, and all the entertaining enlightenment I have squirreled away on my
electronic devices, most of it quotes with my own thoughts. That being said I
said to myself… self, you need to do your own thing, and then I said I have
done my own thing in one way or another over the years so why not just compile it
all in one spot… like here.
That all being said, I have a few disclaimers to throw out
there, this is a blog spot for the masculine state of mind, something that I,
and the pages I have mentioned, have come to find out is withering on the vine,
or atrophying to be more specific. Not sure how or when this all started
happening but the term “androgynous” comes to mind, and. I find, that to be the
cause of confusion and very vexing. Bottom line is since the dawn of time men were
men and women were women. There is the disclaimer, if you are offended at this
point click the X in the upper right corner of your browser, go get a big tall
glass of main stream media mind controlling cool aide, gulp it down and sit
back down on your couch, turn on any main stream network channel, put your
blinders on and veg out. Soon you will become comfortably numb as the rush of mind
controlling TV rushes into your mind and over your body to get you to accept every
agenda they choose to push. Have fun and drive safe.
BUT !!!
If you want to open your mind and understand the Yin and
Yang of reality, then come back and visit every now and then. What you will
read is, why real men are becoming a rarity and why weak men are becoming the
norm, which IS NOT NATURAL. There is masculine and feminine energy inside each
man and keeping this in balance is the key to maintaining your masculinity and
balancing your energy to stay motivated, energetic and passionate about life
into your elder years, where, we can mentor our offspring to continue the path
from generation to generation in hopes of getting back in balance with the
nature of our masculine energy.
This too shall pass
“Just be ordinary and nothing special. Relieve your bowels, pass water, put on your clothes, and eat your food. When you tired, go and lie down. Ignorant people may laugh at me, but the wise will understand” – Lin-chi
NOTES: The world can seem so problematic when we think too much but in reality “It is what it is”. We spend too much time thinking about things, thinking that there is a reason for things or that there is a deeper meaning. There is no deep meaning, there is no meaning at all, it just is. The Sky is blue and the grass is green. We need to breathe in air, drink water, eat food and stay warm to survive, that is it. “No-mind” – the paradox is for there to be no mind we have to have mind to understand no mind but in learning there is no mind we are really in mind and not no-mind and therefore detract from no-mind or what I also refer to as the absences of thought, a popular theme for me.
There is a tendency to over think things and or over think what someone else may be thinking or feeling and if we have a hard enough time controlling our own thoughts how are we to even consider the thoughts of others. Thoughts are like clouds, when we try to grasp at them they just slip through our grasp and trying to grasp at them is futile, oh, of course, there are those scholars out there that will tell you can fashion a reservoir of some type to trap the gasses in a cloud but, that is not the point here. Clouds do not effect out life most of the time, sure they may block out our sun every now and then but eventually they will pass and the sunshine through again. They may even come as a storm or even worse tornados or hurricanes but in the end they pass and with that passing they bring growth. We walk along our paths in life paying little attention to the clouds but they have so much to teach us. The clouds are so much a representation of our own thoughts that we need to treat our own thoughts just like we do the clouds. Watch them as they pass, maybe even laugh at the funny shapes they make and if they bring a storm just remind yourself that “This to shall pass”. Trying to control our thoughts is like trying to control the clouds, rather than control we should just observe and let them move on. For those that try to control there own thoughts will be like a dog chasing it’s tail (a short tail, for my scholarly friends looking for debate), around and around the dog goes until it is to tired to give chase anymore, never catching the tail and never achieving it’s goal.
Nature has so many lessons to teach us we are just too unaware to see the lessons. I often walk slowly when caught in a rainstorm, I even pretend that it is a bright sunny summer day, while walking in the rain. I do this to teach myself a lesson and lesson is it just doesn’t matter whether it is raining or sunny, the day is the same. No matter whether I move fast or slow I am going to get the same soaking. If we were to look at things in absolutes or black and white, it would boil down to; it is or it is not. I am alive or I am dead and everything in between is just a cloud passing over head. The basic needs of survival are shelter, water, fire (Warmth) and food, and outside from these basic needs, everything else is a distraction or waste of energy. In nature we learn “The conservation of energy”; if a deer was to expend too much energy in the winter it would mean certain death because a deer needs that energy to maintain warmth and bodily functions. Anger, hate, frustration, stress and many other “Passing Clouds” in our lives are energy wastes and nature teaches us not to conserve energy for our survival. Well, I am now starting to wonder in my mind and this is a good time to end this post.
Remember the passing clouds and how they relate to our own thoughts. Just let them pass by, even if it does blot out the sun. “This too shall pass”
Peace
GhostDog
NOTES: The world can seem so problematic when we think too much but in reality “It is what it is”. We spend too much time thinking about things, thinking that there is a reason for things or that there is a deeper meaning. There is no deep meaning, there is no meaning at all, it just is. The Sky is blue and the grass is green. We need to breathe in air, drink water, eat food and stay warm to survive, that is it. “No-mind” – the paradox is for there to be no mind we have to have mind to understand no mind but in learning there is no mind we are really in mind and not no-mind and therefore detract from no-mind or what I also refer to as the absences of thought, a popular theme for me.
There is a tendency to over think things and or over think what someone else may be thinking or feeling and if we have a hard enough time controlling our own thoughts how are we to even consider the thoughts of others. Thoughts are like clouds, when we try to grasp at them they just slip through our grasp and trying to grasp at them is futile, oh, of course, there are those scholars out there that will tell you can fashion a reservoir of some type to trap the gasses in a cloud but, that is not the point here. Clouds do not effect out life most of the time, sure they may block out our sun every now and then but eventually they will pass and the sunshine through again. They may even come as a storm or even worse tornados or hurricanes but in the end they pass and with that passing they bring growth. We walk along our paths in life paying little attention to the clouds but they have so much to teach us. The clouds are so much a representation of our own thoughts that we need to treat our own thoughts just like we do the clouds. Watch them as they pass, maybe even laugh at the funny shapes they make and if they bring a storm just remind yourself that “This to shall pass”. Trying to control our thoughts is like trying to control the clouds, rather than control we should just observe and let them move on. For those that try to control there own thoughts will be like a dog chasing it’s tail (a short tail, for my scholarly friends looking for debate), around and around the dog goes until it is to tired to give chase anymore, never catching the tail and never achieving it’s goal.
Nature has so many lessons to teach us we are just too unaware to see the lessons. I often walk slowly when caught in a rainstorm, I even pretend that it is a bright sunny summer day, while walking in the rain. I do this to teach myself a lesson and lesson is it just doesn’t matter whether it is raining or sunny, the day is the same. No matter whether I move fast or slow I am going to get the same soaking. If we were to look at things in absolutes or black and white, it would boil down to; it is or it is not. I am alive or I am dead and everything in between is just a cloud passing over head. The basic needs of survival are shelter, water, fire (Warmth) and food, and outside from these basic needs, everything else is a distraction or waste of energy. In nature we learn “The conservation of energy”; if a deer was to expend too much energy in the winter it would mean certain death because a deer needs that energy to maintain warmth and bodily functions. Anger, hate, frustration, stress and many other “Passing Clouds” in our lives are energy wastes and nature teaches us not to conserve energy for our survival. Well, I am now starting to wonder in my mind and this is a good time to end this post.
Remember the passing clouds and how they relate to our own thoughts. Just let them pass by, even if it does blot out the sun. “This too shall pass”
Peace
GhostDog
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