Feb 19, 2020
John Allen returns with what is.
Time Stamps:
0:00 This is a new form.
2:00 Big John’s Mini explodes.
5:00 Difference between authority and leadership.
5:30 Case in point teaching.
6:30 90% of what is going on is thinking. To be great is to stop thinking.
7:30 A dreamscape that is exhausting.
10:00 Darkness, the Void, No Thing. The sound of the bell is the thing that becomes no thing.
11:00 There is always this moment and there is always space.
12:00 Turning off screens.
13:30 The rug is constantly being pulled out.
14:00 There is no winning.
17:30 The Great Undoing. What is going on?
22:30 The Mind isn’t you. It’s a tool. It’s not us. Us - is no thing and now.
26:30 The Mind has characteristics. We’re always not knowing.
28:00 Assumptions or Fairy Tales? Better to not question, to suffer.
28:30 There’s only one thing to do - dance. My body is always present. To connect. My body is never not here.
32:00 Kobe and flying in the fog. The weak pilot? A metaphor for your life. It’s all about me. Always. Look at your life. The life situation is always bad.
35:00 Lear - you don’t get pats on the back for your good decisions. The famous CIA thing - you never know about the ones we stopped.
36:30 Caught in the fog. If you pull the threads you will always get to space, freedom. It’s about you not about Kobe. The edifice falls. You don’t have that costume. Once that noise goes away you’re not nearly as tired.
39:00 Those moments when you’re happily dancing - Isn’t that winning too? When I’m happily dancing. I’m just there. That’s why I love conversations - because I’m just there.
42:00 Meaning according to Viktor Frankl - is given.
45:00 Me - everything I’m experiencing in this moment.
47:00 - Dancing at the bottom of the mountain with graven images and having a great time in the Charlton Heston movie. The rules are always about us.
49:00 Kobe’s life was probably identical to yours. He had to get his kids to practice. He had a thing he wanted to do and he had an obstacle to doing it. And that’s our day.
51:00 The experience of living in this moment is the same. There’s no winning. Even Kobe is not going to win.
53:00 Leaving the phone at home. In Jamaica on my bike I noticed stuff.
54:00 There is no hassle when there is no possession.
55:30 Everything is doing this dance all of the time and we’ve just go to dance with it.
56:00 Get used to uncomfortableness of not knowing. Joy as opposed to happiness.
References:
Eckhart Tolle
King Lear
Heidegger
Viktor Frankl
Thou is That - Joseph Campbell