6th January 2022
…Gently down the (mental) stream, Merrily merrily, merrily, merrily, Life is but a dream…
Welcome to 2022! Hope this year will be great for you! I have not written in a while and during this time I have become more aware of the metal stream as the title suggests; a slight parody of the children’s classic song.
Sometimes aiming to perfect something or aiming to be consistent at something may actually be a hindrance. Additionally, it may be in human nature to advance and recede in tasks much like the waves on a shoreline. Something that helps me personally to remember that projects are a marathon not a race, and should not be a means to an end but rather a means itself.
Being caught up in the mental stream, e.g thought generation or emotional content running through the mind, rather than giving it simple awareness with some perspective, can filter a view of reality through the lens of your conditioned mind. In other words caught in the fast moving rapids of the river stream. This can result in a variety of communication issues. Internally; where what you aspire to complete through your virtues and what you are currently doing don’t match up. Externally; situations where individuals do not look to understand each other but rather reinforce their mental stream ‘perceived’ ideals. Acceptance of situations and a curiosity often seems to be the first step in resolving such challenges of the mental streams…watching the flowing river stream from the bank than being caught up in the river itself.
Simply just bringing awareness hinders the thought from gaining further momentum. It simply just floats and eventually dissipates, much like a cloud passing through your awareness which could be akin to the sky (or stream to stick with the title).
Realising that we too are animals like fish, monkeys or birds, needing some form of resources, food, shelter and social bonding. It seems slightly strange how we have constructed lifestyles through well encapsulating houses, virtual worlds, and intense jobs constrained to the tick tock schedule of our fictionally created time. Sometimes this artificial world may give the illusion of achievement.
In this environment we are more in the dreams of our own thoughts & head, the news or a collective narrative; disconnected from the natural world, the reality of the plants, animals around us & the vastness of space always above us…
-Jhoty
Jhoty 