tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048229334858323343.post7716230544344615861..comments2024-03-09T08:58:57.961-05:00Comments on Everything is Interesting: Creative hopelessnessJulie H. Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18370626312151913595noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048229334858323343.post-51220208931773203042011-05-11T21:56:07.592-04:002011-05-11T21:56:07.592-04:00I want to amend my position for anyone who happens...I want to amend my position for anyone who happens to be reading this (5/11/11):<br />I had a mistaken idea about meditation, one that I intuited a long time ago, but became evident, and I should state: Namely, that I was using it as a tool to dissociate from my pain. It's a better tool than chemicals, but still, this is not the aim of meditation, and I want to be clear about that. In Zen, at least, the "aim" of meditation is no-aim, but ultimately, it is about discovering one's true nature, not the destruction of it.<br />It's interesting to me to see that talking about meditation, and "letting go" of inner demons should sit so nicely alongside both admission of jealousy of those with linear lives and stating that I'm glad to have not had one. I show my ambivalence. I now realize that having the same job for an entire lifetime is not a sign of healthiness, as I believed because I had internalized the messages of my extended family, to whom the creative individual who could not "settle down" was not mature, or at least, flawed. I've judged myself as a failure by these measures, ones that I now disown.Julie H. Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18370626312151913595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048229334858323343.post-54013229897054840532010-02-23T21:03:37.432-05:002010-02-23T21:03:37.432-05:00" But not all of us are like that, and there&..." But not all of us are like that, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it."<br /><br />Thank goodness for that! ;o)jmcleod76https://www.blogger.com/profile/17756115118582961551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048229334858323343.post-47099206616772110012010-02-23T20:46:18.257-05:002010-02-23T20:46:18.257-05:00It's a fine line between a rut and a groove!It's a fine line between a rut and a groove!dick fischbeckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05277255042244511975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048229334858323343.post-64042016136208833982010-02-23T19:08:52.512-05:002010-02-23T19:08:52.512-05:00Me too! :o/Me too! :o/Julie H. Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18370626312151913595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048229334858323343.post-33191999003719704552010-02-23T19:04:34.022-05:002010-02-23T19:04:34.022-05:00I like it when you find a positive perspective. :)...I like it when you find a positive perspective. :)TMChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12287499048486219026noreply@blogger.com