Awareness

The game within the game.

I'm currently reading Anthony de Mello's: The Way to Love. The author writes about attachments and awareness. Great book.

I was thinking about the concept of awareness during the day. How people are generally going about their business on autopilot. As de Mello puts it - they have layers of fat around their brain: attachments, beliefs, programming etc so they aren't truely awake. It's hard to be angry at someone once you realise they are unconscious.

But the game in the game. Aren't I just falling into a trap if I go around judging people's state of awareness? That is my new belief, and WHAM, I'm back asleep.

There is a lot of truth in it though. I am on autopilot most of the time. Kaufman talks about similar things in Thinking Fast Thinking Slow. 

A system of scheduled meditation and reflection periods is an antidote. System mind you, not a goal (see Scott Adams).

So what is this ramble of blog post trying to say? 

Well it was inspired by a twat in a business I'm in who I think it is fair to say, and based on other observations made, is very unaware. My reaction is at first annoyance, but then it is forgiveness and peace. Take time to step away.

After all this blog is about being an escape engineer. Escaping to freedom. What else is freedom but a form of love?

Numero Seis: Greater awareness leads to greater freedom leads to greater love

Westy