Interests and Essential Actions

 20240530 Today's Quick Notes to eDoc/eMail Format

20240530 Today's Quick Notes to eDoc/eMail Format

What can interest me?

I read my blogs, consisting of my own writing and quotes from authors I enjoyed reading.  Interesting that most of it seems to consist of new or organized thinking.

I need to read the first books of the “Great Books” collection that I inherited from my father.  They are by Home, The Iliad and The Odyssey, that now that I look at them I recognize some reading from junior high.  Let me read these again and find either new or permanent lessons.   I also need to keep reading William James for his modern insight into psychology.

Is there anything essential for me to think or do of feel at this poin, phase of my personal growth?

What may change the meaning of my current life?  Illness, injury, imprisonment by a foreign government/agency?

Get back to my normal routes:

Walk, stretch, exercise, read, and write.  Yesterday writing my profile restored my pleasure in writing process.  I had forgotten how much fun it may be.

What motivated me?  Maybe my current reading of I. Asimov or Ira Progoff’s At a Journal Workshop copy writed 1992?

Jean Klein's book "Who Am I?"

 Notes from Jean Klein's book "Who Am I?" page 34.

I read this page a few days ago, 20240521.

I read this page again the next day 20240522.  Now it made a lot of good sense.  I am glad I didn’t skip the page as being useless the first time I read it.  So much of my life has been lived as a “professional doer."

I quote the page 34 below:

“Q. Doesn’t one have a personal responsibility to change things one feels are wrong?

A.  When you are free from the idea of being somebody, the problem of responsibility doesn’t play a role.  When you are no longer limited by the personality , there is intelligence and acting is adequate from moment to moment.

Notes from Jean Klein's book "Who Am I?" page 34.

I read this page a few days ago, 20240521.

I read this page again the next day 20240522.  Now it made a lot of good sense.  I am glad I didn’t skip the page as being useless the first time I read it.  So much of my life has been lived as a “professional doer."

I quote the page 34 below:

“Q. Doesn’t one have a personal responsibility to change things one feels are wrong?

A.  When you are free from the idea of being somebody, the problem of responsibility doesn’t play a role.  When you are no longer limited by the personality , there is intelligence and acting is adequate from moment to moment.

(Note 1 underlined) If you have any idea of being somebody, a friend, helper, political person, teacher, mother, father, and so on you will only see the situation colored by this image.  It is a fractional view and because it is partial it breeds conflict and reaction.  Since the action did not appear and disappear in wholeness there will be residue.  Before acting, one must understand the situation.  To fully comprehend it, you must face the facts free from ideas.  It must belong to your wholeness; otherwise you are stuck to the wheel of reaction where there is only relationship from concept to concept.

(Note 2 underlined) When you become a professional doer you are no longer spontaneous.  You can never create harmony.  It is beautiful to be really nothing, without qualification.  All that appears, appears in you and you act according to the appearance using your capital. Intellectual, bodily, material, etc.  Then all action is balanced."

HIGHLIGHTS OF MY CAREER

 HIGHLIGHTS OF CAREER:

Spent teenage years working for my mother, Ruth Nissen Vogt MD, caring for severely retarded (now known as Intellectual Disability) children as part of her business. The “Special Children” lived in a wing of our home at 187 Stowe Mt. Rd Hillsboro NH. I was repair-man at Hillsboro Camp (for girls) during summers.

In my first adult career I spent 10 years running US submarines: Monitoring foreign USSR ships and submarines in North Pacific, building US nuclear submarine in Newport News Virginia Naval Shipyard, monitoring USSR submarine operations at HQ of Commander Submarine Force Atlantic in Norfolk VA.

I left naval active duty to become technical and marketing writer/manager for military agencies in Washington DC. I was commuting from Baltimore, MD where I met the flame of my life, Amanda.

 

20240415 Return of My Memory

20240415 

As my memory returns I rediscover items of knowledge and regain old memories.  

I realize that my recommendations in my earlier emails are missing a key factor.

A key factor is Awareness of the motion of our bodies.  Examples include our walking, our laying down, rolling over, …. the kind of movements you do in your morning classes in the workout space.  This is the number one step in learning to “meditate.”  A step that is so basic most people forget to mention it.  Spend a few years learning to experience body awareness during the day.  Do this for at least a few hours each day.

I never felt limited to only a few hours, but that seemed to be the general advice.  I work to do it continuously all the time that I am awake.  Am I kidding myself?  I don’t think so.

One difficulty in sharing this idea is that many people say, “Of course I am aware of my body.”  But then if we watch them we may notice many moments of little or no awareness.

The word of some is that if we neglect physical awareness then we embark on all sorts of mental awareness that are primarily imagination only.