Lacking real material to post, I decided to repeat a quote that is sounding unpleasently precise.
It is from David Deida’s book, Intimate Communion:
The second stage man is also singularly deluded. At least the first stage man is up front with his wants: He wants big bucks and big breasts. The second stage man often hides his own emptiness and his own needs, even from himself. He has practiced meditation for 10 years, travelled all over Asia and india, he is a certified aikido master and psychotherapist, and, essentially, nothing fundamental has changed. He still feels unfinished.
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Furthemore, he is older now, and he doesn’t have the energy and determination he once had.
Wow! I couldn’t have expressed it better. It only makes me wonder: how come I resonate so much with the second stage man, while I still desire to have sex, to have chicks, to have breasts (actually my specific is the female ass, you can’t get more dominant than that!)?
This is where I think I am stuck!
I had girls, and I had them so much, and I refused them so much that it is my responsability my loneliness. Remember my father:
I won’t feel bad for you,
you are lonely because you choose so.
You had wonderful girls,
and you always left them.
The decisions I took were inspired. Looking for better. For more. Or just for more in a different direction: inside instead than outside. But then I got hit by life. I got distracted. And I ended up nailed to the cross of my own decisions, while crying: “Goddes, oh Goddes, why have you abandoned me.”
There is no turning back. That’s why I need to develop authenthicity, integrity and death. My inside knows that it is not by having more chicks that I shall find my salvation. This is why I always fail. Because I did play, and I suceeded. And then I went on!
…still the doubt remains…
…eroding me.
9 October, 2006 at 3:25 pm
Living life and looking at life from a distance is not quite the same thing. Living life is usually messier but oh the joy. And the times when one think one is in total control is when they have lost complete control but just don’t know it, yet.
10 October, 2006 at 10:33 am
Indeed. But flow (living life) alone is not the solution. There is more.
There are plenty of ‘being in life’ experiences that are not conducive to oneSelf.
10 October, 2006 at 2:47 pm
Maybe my living life is like your ‘being in life’ and my looking is like your flow (living life). Truly, life isn’t meant to be done alone. Going for a walk with my boys after a break in the rain during the winter and my youngest getting caught in the mud. My older son trying to pull him out and then falling backwards into the mud and seeing the facial expression change to wonder at the texture of the mud in his young hands as he made a new discovery. Getting covered in mud myself when I “rescued” both boys and all three of us hiking back to my parents home and having my mom take one look of disbelief at us and shaking her head, saying no way are you coming in here like that. Living life is alot messier and much more fun than marking the time as it passes one by.
10 October, 2006 at 2:54 pm
Funny. I did not see flow as different from being in life and living life. But just as three different ways to express the same basic concept. That state in which you are so immersed in something that you feel totally filled by it. You loose sense of time passing.
11 October, 2006 at 3:47 am
I thought you were saying that living life and being in life was different. So your saying it is the same basically. I am seeking just to understand.
11 October, 2006 at 8:13 am
Sorry, I wasn’t clear. Living in life, the experience of flow and being in life are the same thing.
Controlling life is different.
Or you could say, the first three are on one side of the spectrum the other is on the opposite side of the spectrum.
11 October, 2006 at 8:37 am
Yes. Agreed.