Here are 2 more doodles on Starbucks cups I created. After I draw on the cups and take a picture, I just give it to one of the employees that works there. Figured maybe it will brighten up their day.
Merge
– Represents merging the inner and outer into one
Chakras
– Represents tuning into your chakras and expanding your energy field
You have been dooped into believing something that isn’t true. Most of the world has and now many are suffering tremendously for this lie that has been spread and is continually perpetuated by the collective mind.
How can something really be owned? and if so, better yet by a you that isn’t even real.
Really take a moment and contemplate this for a second.
Firstly, let’s take a look at what owning something is first of all – it mean’s having something as one’s own.
So now lets see if there is anything that you can really have in this life as your own. Last time I checked, the only way this could ever be possible is if humans created stupid rules that such a thing as owning anything is possible. Think about this… you don’t even own your body, even that is being temporarily given to you. When even that isn’t yours, how can anything else be?
The problem is that many people believe that they are their mind and body because they never ever look deeper to find actual truth of life and then from that standpoint one can be dooped into believing anything, including this notion that things can be owned in actual reality.
Things can only be owned in mind manipulated reality, which is just basically a structure that humans create and place on top of actual reality and now have been deluded into thinking that is how life works.
Now obviously i’m not saying go and get rid of all your stuff, i’m just trying to open your mind to the possibility that when you start looking at life from a different level, a truer one, a lot of lies start getting exposed. These lies torture people and even cause them to do unimaginable things to the planet, other beings, and themselves.
You can still have a house, car, wife, husband, kids, and all the gadgets you want, but try to start realizing that you are not really the owner of any of these things, they are just experiences that are currently there, that is all. Knowing this won’t help much either, because that again is a mind thing which lives in the same lie as you believing that you own things. If you want this insight to actual have an impact, you must have a direct experience of this truth that nothing can be owned.
This is where it’s up to you to do the work, nobody else. Good luck if you decide to journey to truth, or if your happy living in the delusion of the mind then enjoy that as well.
Sports are mostly always looked at from a self perspective, but if you
ever decide to look at sports from a deeper level here is what you will find.
Most people just assume that sports are fun games that people made up, play, and now can even make a living from. The actual reality is that sports just like many things in society today have become a distraction created by the collective mind for the purpose to prevent humans from looking within and realizing their true fundamental nature.
I am not arguing that sports aren’t fun, aren’t useful, and that they can teach valuable lessons, what I am pointing to is that they ultimately are a mind creation and with that being the case, they are preventing people from seeing the truth, and that is that the mind has consumed humanity, and therefore people are now mostly living in illusion and thereby suffering tremendously without need.
This is all coming from a person that has spent their entire life being engulfed in sports – in tennis – to be more specific. I was so consumed in the sport that my sense of self was even constructed by it and this is why I am capable of seeing how enormous of a challenge it is to even convince one person on how sports are a distraction and not always this great thing.
My whole life was committed to tennis, I played national and future tournaments, got a tennis scholarship to a DII school in Michigan and coached many really good players. I worked for Cliff Drysdale Tennis where I got to hit with former world number 1’s and many high caliber players. I coach many amazing athletes and eventually was even offered a directors position to be in charge of my own club.
I’m telling you that back story not to brag about how good I was, but to show you that my whole life was based in sport and thereby the attachment to this field was very strong and whenever someone would try to open my eyes to the fact that sports aren’t always this great thing, and actually they can prevent one from seeing the greatest thing of all, ones actual true nature outside of all mind additions – in this case sport.
This isn’t just with playing sports either, it’s just as much of a distraction when one is a spectator of sports. Since sports are a creation of the mind, they are always going to be used by the mind to keep you distracted from seeing outside of it, which is where actual truth resides. Think of how many people in the world today are consumed in sport, whether it’s playing, training, watching, betting, competing, debating, commentating. It all is mind activity and when not careful it really consumes and can distract a person from looking at fundamental truths of life and that is just a shame because most of our suffering is created from living in the fiction of our own minds.
Are you consumed by sport? Have you or do you spend most of your life in some aspect of it? Do you think that sports are the be all of life? Is your happiness in life dependent on you, a player or a specific team doing well?
These are important questions to ask of yourself because you just might be distracted by your mind from missing some of the most valuable truths that exist in life and by knowing them, ones life can become transformed to one of higher degrees of consciousness, which brings peace, joy, and love without needing any other things such as sport to bring them.
In the beginning when you are totally lost and need a starting point, it is nice to be guided by someone wiser then you. They can help bring out insights, keep you on course, and get you further than you could have gone on your own.
There comes a time thought, that eventually all wise masters; Buddha, Jesus, Lao Tzu, Muhammad, and even the idea of God must be let go of intellectually. This is because these individuals are all just direction pointers to something that is beyond themselves.
The problem is that to the mind run, which is the majority of society still, something that is beyond the mind can never be understood and this is what those entities have been pointing to with their teachings for centuries.
You can see in your own experience or with those close to you, that we humans love to pedestalize entities, whether it’s; celebrities, sports stars, musicians, artists, or the named above spiritual teachers.
This all may seem like very innocent behavior and doesn’t seem as if it would be dangerous, but this is exactly how religions – the organizations created to spread this deeper truth – have themselves been pedestalized and turned into mind monstrosities and started to abuse the worshiping. When one lives in the mind, they cannot see outside of it and therefore no matter how noble they may seem, mind games exist at all levels, even the most sacred spiritual ones.
The fact is that nobody is greater or less than you, EVER! and this can only be truly experienced when you can learn how to detach from your mind. When you are worshiping some entity (no matter what it is) that means that you are saying that they are above you and in turn you allow them to rule you. This is all egoic at this point because one’s power can’t ever be really taken away, but on the level of the mind it seems as it is and therefore many fall for this game.
Only when you stop worshiping can you realize for yourself what those spiritual teachers have realized and tried to point you to. This is the truth of what you are and this cannot be told to you because it’s outside of the mind, yet you want to know it with the mind. See the dilemma? No matter who tells you this, it will be on the level of the mind and therefore it will always be this type of worshiping business. Like today, people love the Buddha for being awakened, but many people worship him for being something special, when that is done it is saying that he is above them and therefore they will always be stuck from seeing the actual truth of what he was pointing to and that is that everyone is the Buddha, they just need to have an experience and not just try to figure it out with the mind.
Are you even aware that duality exists?
This might sound silly to ask such a question in this day and age, but many people still live primarily all their life in make believe, so it’s totally possible that they haven’t even observed that the physical world is dual.
By duality, I mean that everything is broken up into two parts by the mind. It cannot be any other way or else the physical world would not exist. Things such as life and death, good and bad, happy and sad, self and other, all are aspects of the same thing. This can be seen if you take the time to observe life from outside of the mind.
This could be a super powerful realization for you to have, but it must be experienced and not just thought up, because knowing it through conceptualizations won’t do much as that’s how you know it now.
When you start touching unity (detaching from your mind self), you finally start seeing that most people, including you get deluded by their mind into thinking that somehow they can escape the other aspect of what they are seeking. Duality cannot be escaped when trapped in the mind, and if you continue to seek just the one aspect, you will suffer every time when the thing that you have been seeking transforms into it’s other half.
The key is to start accepting that the physical world is indeed dual and only then the mind will not be able to continually fool you, that if you go towards one side of the coin you somehow will be able to avoid the other. I am not saying to give up playing this game of teeter totter either, I am just saying be aware that you are playing this game and it will always be this way when you are living from the mind self.
One must truly spend a good amount of time contemplating this subject and learning to dis-identify from the mind realm to get this, or otherwise you will just know it intellectually and that is still a mind thing.
If this is something that you would like to pursue, then a meditation practice is vital. You don’t have to become a mystical yogi that lives in the woods, just 5 minutes a day to start will get you moving in the right direction. When unity is experienced directly, the way you view the world will change drastically, because no longer will you see fragments everywhere as are seen through the mind.
Hand drawn on graph paper. Pencil and Ink.
Took around 30 hours.
Made to be viewed from all sides.
Interested to seeing other people’s perspectives.
Side 1
Side 2
Side 3
Side 4
If you aren’t familiar with this experience that is possible for you to have yet, then chances are that you have been probably living under a rock (would love to hear about that experience actually) or you aren’t really into trying new things.
Whatever the case may be, I am here to give you a little breakdown of this experience and what it could do for you.
What is a Sense Deprivation (Float) Tank:
The name might put you off a bit since it sounds like some weird chamber of death or something. Basically all this is, is a bathtub like structure with a cover and a lot of salt. Everybody has been in a bathtub before…I hope anyways! pppppppeeeuuuuuu if you haven’t haha. This bathtub like structure has a couple of more additions as well. The water temperature is the same as of your skin’s temperature, which makes it feel as if the parts of your body that are in water and outside are the same. It’s called a Float tank because the amount of salt that is put in there makes you float completely on it’s own, no need for your help like in actual water, which allows you to actually let go complete control of your body. The tank is quite large as well and usually there is a light that you can have on if being in darkness makes you uncomfortable.
Why is it an Experience Worth Having:
The reason that this could be a powerful experience for you is because if you haven’t meditated a whole lot in your life, you will probably not be aware that most of your suffering is caused by your own mind. Since all your senses are temporarily dis-activated in the tank (when the light is off and no sound is heard either) it really shows you how much your mind just yaps and yaps without any of the outside world really triggering it. When this is actually experienced first hand, it can trigger a life changing moment in you since for most of humanity the problems that exist for them are seen as if they are out in the physical world, when in reality they are actually occurring in the mind. Not a bad realization just from a little float session, right?
If you don’t want to expand your consciousness and all you want to do is float, then that is a pretty cool experience as well. Just found out as well that they make even larger float tanks for 2 people to be able to go at once, which is nice if it’s your first time and your a bit unsure of the experience.
I did some research and most large cities now have these float businesses popping up everywhere, so unless you live in the jungle, chances are that there is one close to you as well. As for price, they are quite reasonable and many have discounts if you check their website on a frequent basis…usually closest to holidays. Groupon and Living Social is a good try as well.
Anyways happy Floating 🙂
Here are some Pictures:
