People and their boxes...

[WonShot]

Been runnin into old friends lately. It's funny how the more things change, the more they stay the same. It's cliche... so what! It's truth.

It never ceases to amaze me that people walk around with "chips" on their shoulders. Tribalism is rampant. Jokers look at you crazy because you don't do or say the things you used to. People passin judgment on you but never really take the opportunity to get to know you.

The funniest thing is how many people assume they have 'understanding' when, in truth, they are only drawing conclusions based off invalid syllogisms. When you accept a 'train' of thought, you also accept the track it runs on. The train only has two gears... forward or backward. You either goin' one way or the other... ya dig. If the train sways, you sway with it. If the tracks turn, the train turns and you turn with it. You can move around in the box/car you are in, but your movement is often limited to that box. You look out the window of the train and assume you are exploring because the scenery changes from stop to stop.

But lookin out the window ain't explorin homeboy!

Next stop... ENLIGHTENMENT

While the scenery may look astoundingly beautiful from your train seat... it pales in comparison to the beauty of actually experiencing the scenery.

Of course... you will have to get OFF the train or out of the box to do that... ya dig!

1yaself

[DJ Born U]

I smells you on that one! There are alot of people stuck in the box and don't realize it. The one thing I love about the Art of Magic is that it shows you things are not always what they seem to be. Life is all Perception and Perception can be Manipulated. Now if thats true in which I know its 100% TRUE, how do you know when your perception is being altered or when do you ever come to the realization that it has been altered? Part of coming out of the box is understanding what the box is and that your are in the box? From my understanding coming out of the box is about stepping outside of yourself (Mentally). When you step outside of yourself you step into a whole new realm of life you never new existed other than the one you been living. You begin to explore, question, and search for answers and as this exploration takes place you will start to see things for what they are and not what they appear to be! I like to call this the spiritual awakening, this is when you know longer see with your eyes and you now see with your mind. One of my favorite parts in the movie "The Matrix" was when Neo asked Morpheus why does my eyes hurt? and Morpheus looked at Neo strangely and said to him its because you never used them. That is so Profound! I doubt most people who viewed the movie never caught that, not only that it is true. You see we do have eyes, we have ears, taste, touch, and smell but we are given these senses to heighten our True Perception of Reality. Meaning they are to help the brain mature so the spirit can experience the journey of life. All our senses operate on the principle of "Vibration." You see people forgot what it was like to be a kid or baby, there was a time when we were so young although we could see we didn't know what we were looking at, we had to be taught what we were seeing, There was a time when we could hear but didn't know what we were listening to we had to be taught that, same goes for taste, touch & smell. We grew into our senses with an open mind and the more we took in the more our mind started to close itself down. The information started to cast things out because we were only taught how to use the senses from a physical view and not a mental view. Once our brains get a certain degree of information it starts to cast out any other theories or ideologies about life because it goes beyond the Realm of Perception that we were taught.

So the question is when does the mind wake up to reality in-order to know it is in the box?

And the answer is this, We have to realize that the mind is always awake never sleeping, it is the body that goes to sleep in-order to charge itself up for motion and movement. It is the Spirit that needs to come to balance with the mind and body! As they say in the Judicial system no scale can stand without a pole. The left & right side has to have a balance and that balance will bring natural order.

So the key is get in good spirit, enhance our well being, get in tune more with ourselves and stop searching for all the answers outside and beyond because the answers exist within.

Keep the Spirit happy and the mind and body will follow... Vacation, party, spend time with loved ones, have lots of wild crazy sex, smoke some ganja, ride roller coasters, sky dive, shot a gun, but just do something that will uplift the spirit so it can take you out of the BOX!

Now!
I could of summed all this up by just saying Live your Life and have Fun Fun Fun!

But that would of been to easy and some of you wouldn't of got the point, hopefully you did.

It may sound a little spooky to some of you who made be reading this and if it do maybe your in the box!

Get out A.S.A.P and try some Tai-Chi, Yoga, and read up on other religions than your own, I promise you will not burn in the end! Because your body can only feel pain with the sense of touch and with no brain no body there is no sense of touch. No Pain No Gain!

[Fe]

People and their boxes...hmmm some people are afraid of change or stepping outside of the box. I sometimes find myself a victim of "Wonshot's" metophorically implicit comparison. Am I on the train looking out the window...hmmm, naah I actually get off the train to explorer then get back on...then off again at the next interesting stop. I even get on different trains and planes going to foreign uncharted lands, hell I drive sometimes lol, but I look at it as life's journey. The method of transportation is your choice...part of a learning experience. That's how you decide your likes and dislikes...ya dig. :-)

[WonShot]

OK 'Ms. Planes, Trains & Automobiles'... You'll have to get used to my metaphors, lol. I'm always relatin something.

Excellent point though. Yall both hit the nail on the head.