[MD] How to Be Rid of SOM, Forever

[Todd A. Carter]

Ah, but the struggle lies in all the stuff that gets cast away by your
"paradigm" allowing you to minimize the details to a point where you can
conceptualize.  How do you "let it all in?"  How do we remove the filters of
experience, of society, of biology, of the inorganic so that we can truly
experience the world (or whatever is really out there.)

The MOQ gives an excellent tool-set for divining "reality."  It only has a
name "MOQ" so that the "SOM" can consider it.

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I know I'm new and I'm using terms that I've not fully internalized, yet.

I'm likin' this stuff.

Todd
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[mailto:moq_discuss-bounces at lists.moqtalk.org] On Behalf Of John Carl
Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 12:23 PM
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Subject: Re: [MD] How to Be Rid of SOM, Forever

Hi Marsha and thanks,
First, my Oregon Creek is in California.  It's a just about the perfect size
to be considered a "creek" and flows into the middle fork of the Yuba River
where Hwy 49 crosses.   It's also less than a 5 minute drive from my house,
which absolutely makes it the best swimming hole in the world.  All my kids
learned to swim there.


>
> One July I spent two sunny weeks (business trip) in Oregon, and it was
very
> beautiful.  I spent one of the weekend days driving down the coast and
> back.
> Gorgeous coastline!
>
> I have just one question. Do you need to turn over all those arising
> thoughts to awareness?  Of course thoughts like "Bear!!!" will be
> insistent,
> but most are not worthy of center stage.  Imho.


"Worthy" is a value judgement, eh?  And in order to apply judgement to a
thought, you have to have the thought in the first place.  So... let's
suppose I've got this thought to be evaluated and I decide upon reflection
that it's not worthy.  So I cast it off.  The entire process flits by in a
moment but while all this is going on in the moment, it's a "center stage"
phenomena.  I don't see any way around it, normally.  The one solution I can
imagine is figuring out what is worthy and keeping it center stage.  I guess
that's like focusing on a mantra or somesuch, but I'm not at all sure that
whatever  thoughts arise out of my immediate environmental relationship are
less worthy than a preconceptualized  Ommmmmmm.....
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