Tue 12 Aug 2008
Ing-ing
Posted by Jonathan F. Anderson, www.gatehealing.com under Healing, Support, Thoughts on realityIng-ing. There’s a fun new word to play with. Think about this: we are always ‘doing’ something, experiencING things, lovING things, engagING things, you get the idea, we ‘ING’ everything by way of perception (that would be perceiving). It’s the “ing-ness” that is experience itself; transient and slippery, yet so obvious that you can’t miss an ing. You can trip over it, but you can’t miss it. My grammar teacher would be proud that I remember the word “Gerund.” A gerund is the active form of a verb—that is, the verb BECOMING a noun . . .when you are loving, you are experiencing something (a noun being ‘something’) . . what are you experiencing? “It” – and “it” is clearly a noun . . .unless it’s a verb, then it’s a gerund verb, which is a verb masquerading as a noun, which is just the ego masquerading as truth. When you are running, you are be’ing’ run; when you are loving you are being Love itself. Is-ness is what Ram Dass calls it. Tao is what Lao Tzu calls it. A non-horse is what Chuang Tzu calls it. Ommmmmmm is what the universe calls it. It calls itself Yolanda, or sometimes dust, desk or car. Yesterday it called itself tubing the greenbelt. Tomorrow it’s called __
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August 24th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
[...] Let’s say you see a harmless flying bug on the wall. Smack it, spray it, let the cat play with it, ignore it, take a picture of it, catch it clumsily, or catch it carefully and release it outside? Up to you. But here’s the metaphor: Want to really live life? Catch the bug (be aware of your thoughts), take the bug outside (decide where the bug, you, belongs), don’t just shake the bug out of the glass and risk knocking it around needlessly in that container (know the body and the egoic mind, but don’t use them as a smashing boards), allow the bug to fly out and do whatever a bug does (ing-ing). [...]
September 8th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
[...] Part of this remembering how to do ‘it’ in real-life situations is a feeling of knowing exactly what the ‘best’ scenario to create is. [...]
September 16th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
[...] OK, let’s begin with there will be several of these ‘language knots’ in this sort of discussion – so if you find yourself both agreeing and disagreeing with the same exact idea, relax and refer back to some of the other posts on this blog—’ing-ing’ is a good place to start [...]
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:27 am
[...] The ego just prints the map, better yet, it projects it onto the blank screen of our awareness—gives you the choices; if you are awake, then you experience your ‘self’ as an experience (ING-ING) of a continually unfolding moment. [...]