The Block

To help make it less frustrating for myself, I try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, and keep aware of patterns, Keeping the door ajar to new ideas and experiences, while having a filter for those things that do not serve the True Will.
I find as I meditate and trust the universe and strive for the light and the force, the frustration fades away, in it's place it's new experiences, and just people with different opinions, all wanting the same thing inside! Love, or a release from fear!

Tetrahedron wrote: To help make it less frustrating for myself, I try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, and keep aware of patterns, Keeping the door ajar to new ideas and experiences, while having a filter for those things that do not serve the True Will.
I find as I meditate and trust the universe and strive for the light and the force, the frustration fades away, in it's place it's new experiences, and just people with different opinions, all wanting the same thing inside! Love, or a release from fear!

My whole life I have been learning this.
I’ll be balancing that till the day I glow blue. At the same time it does my heart good to know - I may not be the only one .

Thank you Carlos. One of the biggest things I’ve found in my life is that it requires precarious balance. I’ve always been a glutton and closed myself off from the world because I dislike people as a whole. My time here has taught me that it is my own failures, my own shortcomings, the judgements and prejudices that I’ve made about people created a world around me that I dislike and get annoyed with. I’ve let a few people ruin the beauty of the whole. It is here that I’ve found that balancing point. I have to look past myself with open eyes and an open heart to really see the world and all the beautiful people in it.

You are welcome friend. For me - I’m the beginning that was me - I severed everything about me and the world just nahhh... now a few years into it I’m able to display a few more ideals and ways I’ve kept out in the open. It’s kinna like a higher learning thing - we segregate and learn then we apply and learn what we learned and un learn what we don’t need. Finding ones center is a huge step for any Modern day Jeddist and a step forward as far as conserned. Learn then ... apply ... learn then apply - kinna like the old wax on.... then wax off.

The physical - the spiritual - the mental - exists in ever type of path, from the less organized most recent attempt to the the most archaic idea and every one in between. These three ideas exist in us and we often see them in different values and in different balances. ( we ARE a sight for those who didn’t understand )
Our fifth Teaching says -“ Jedi understand the well being consist in the physical, the mental, and the spiritual. A Jedi trains each to ensure they remain capable of performing their duty’s to the best of their ability’s. All these are INTERCONNECTED and essential parts of our training in becoming more harmonious with the Force.”
Here - we don’t ever tell you “WHAT” to do - never , we don’t tell you what to be or choose but we tell you and remind as well as share wins and losses.
We say - yes learn - go learn
We say - yes ask questions - go ask questions
We say - yes to almost everything you can think of. These three essential ideas we definitely say yes to. Practice your spirituality and ask around .... change it keep it - adjust - if need be - do this for all three - hone them - master them - practice them - make them- share them- write them down , pass them- what ever your choice - but yes - yes please do ! Have - a - balance. If you don’t make some time to begin trying ! You won’t regret it ! Somthing to think about for the week-

How would you say the spiritual and the mental are different?

Each of us have a discernment and a definition. I can only answer for myself.
To me , spiritual of faith based. Mental is more fact based than faith. To me the spiritual is my practice of faiths togeather - that mix of connections I call on any time I need. To my practice, the spiritual is what do I practice and how and to what lengths do I go to display it. What books I read - why- where I put my heart ... things like that. The mental of the things I usually take into count the thinking parts - the explanations and such. Stars - planets - how planes work - why-

What’s your active difference?

I thought of this in a weird way but bare with me........My spirituality is searching for the silence in a song. What I mean is this listen to a song, any song and you will hear inevitably at least one point where there is an emptiness, entirely void of noise. In most songs it is what makes the song a song. So, my spirituality is trying to see these in my song, to understand this timing. To make my song better for anyone that hears even one second of it. Hoping that it can help others make their song sound sweet to them.

I was watching a “oldie” with my wife last night -“ We are no angels” Denero
And Penn 1989
There is a moment when one main character is called upon - unknowingly to give a sermon on the spot for the big procession they are having. In it - Sean Penn the convict on the run and in hiding gives a off the cuff message about faith.
If ya got time google it or watch it.

Is it enough just to HAVE faith ? That’s ok too!
Something to think about friends !

It is enough to just have faith. Even if it's in just that you are trying to do the right thing.

It'll help keep you going when you think you still have too far to walk on this journey.

Happy holidays and ...
It has been my privilege and my bliss to serve every single one of you this year. What a blessing this place has been and what a blessing you have had in my own - real life. My hope - is that thru example - we can continue to grow. Family is family - this is a on line family but never the less -

To the Temple - I cant wait for what’s in store next year !

From my family to yours -
Tafaoga fiafia
Feliz Navidad
And see ya next year ! Lol

Just a reminder ...
New year new ideas new learning new goals new friends new books new music new attitude new new new ...
Same family ...work or give them space in all that ... new. Don’t forget - all this new things you may make or learn ... you may be the only one who sees it ...

Force be with y’all

Growth
Funny thing about it is ... focus on growth and you willl see it, focus long enough and you can anticipate it, anticipate long enough and you may begin to miss the very reason you chose growth in the first place. Strange thing it is .

This forum post was started over two years ago... truly , where does the time go?
This month I’ve taken a step back and looked at where I stand. (Inventory season for the Corp. world here in the states. ) Be smart and be wise and take examples from where they come often is my motto at times ... even at times, the business world.
See what ya got. Take some time. Look at your life. We can and we have the right to review our friends and our music and our books and our faith and our locations and our spirituality and what ever else we may need. It’s not that we are Jedi or smarter than every one else my friends ... truly it because we are human. To my practice being able to be Jedi is like having bread with every meal. Some days I like it - some days I love it - some days I have to make it.

A few things to think about this week my fellow Jedi.
May the Force be with y’all!

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I was thinking

...NO act of selfless - compassion or kindness is ever small or insignificant...

I was under the idea at one time ,it was and I didn’t have time or I could never really make a difference with any of my actions or choices.
As I study and practice I’ve learned and not only witnessed but been many different parts in the exact opposite.
It’s my choice and focus to do such so if it’s not yours by all means - live on friend ! But ...
But if your like me , these type of acts I have found often find each other or other smaller acts of kindness. Togeather or alone, I’ve noticed times like these create some pretty wonderful moments in life - wether we are the giver or recover of kindness. Either way the world benefits from a single act of kindness ... so the question is - what can you do?
May the Force be with y’all !
May you find it as y’all seek it !

I am going to throw this one in here because it's half kindness half taking but it's a simple thing we can all do. I try every morning whether I feel like crap or whatever, I try to smile and say good morning to people. Sometimes, they don;t smile back sometimes they do. I don't know if it makes people day but it does make some smile. Sometimes that changes the day, the take is I just feel better when I practice this.

Just some thoughts

Much Love, Respect and Peace,
Kobos

Compassion
For those who choose to make
Compassion a focus -there is a bit of magic in this choice. Here’s what I mean. Somthing to think about his week.
There are so many different versions of compassion and so many different levels it’s almost crazy. When two acts of different kindness meet - there comes those days when it happens - we revive or we give kindness - along side another - and the effects are some times like a magic spell or a vortex being opened. I can’t really explain it nor do I want to at times. Compassion is the spiritual side for me at times . What can your version of compassion do when met with others? I hope this encourages you as a modern day Jeddist to continue the fight to continue the struggle to continue the path of compassion and selfless you have chosen. When Jedi meets Jedi - when love meets love when kindness and characters meet there’s no telling what can happen ! Force be with y’all!

Somthing to think about ...

Each of us has chosen to be a Jedi . We have identified ourselfs as Jedi. Often times I see even myself say - well I’m Jedi. This can be a very dangerous path to take in ones own path. ( well I’m Jedi - your dumb- ) This type of thought exist with manners - religion - truth- and pretty much every living type of idea we can claim for even the smallest of boasting reasons. It is natural. What is opposite is often the “I’m better than you” idea. It’s tough because ima say it - Jedi are smart. It’s hard to stay on the ground when some of us were born to fly.
Do what you can to stay - knightly or selfless or even just chill. It’s possible but it takes a bit of work. Force be ever with y’all as we seek serve and share - the Force.

Salt
How do we keep from getting too salty? As modern day Jeddist is it possible ? Is it possible to be too much of somthing? Most defiantly. One of my practices is to be aware of when this happens for me and to be ready to combat it- before it becomes a problem.
Some times adding a bit of salt is ... too much. Even a pinch. Somthing to think about Jedi this week.
May the Force be with y’all!