Truth or Lies

I'm absolutely amazed that there are lies in this world!

Yes, it amazes me.

I just would never think of tricking somebody. It never enters my head! Obviously I am too simple.

How do you see it? I think that actually most people are pretty truthful. However it is quite shocking that fakery goes on. I think the reason for that is that the person thinks it is easier than doing something for real. OK, at stage one, they are correct in that belief - yes, they don't have to really do anything, just pretend, then take the money. OK so far. But how about at stage two? A whole lifetime of lying and tricking, when they could have been using their real skills instead? Surely it's harder work to sustain that.

OK maybe I am not very clever because stage one certainly sounds like a good deal...haha

The few (well, more than a few) people who spend their lives defrauding and faking for material gain must be in serious trouble spiritually. They are so lazy that they can't be bothered to lift one of their own fingers to do anything, but instead must give the impression of using fingers they do not really have, in order to administer help that doesn't really help. Now you can certainly say they are using skills in order to do that, but is tricking a skill we should really use?

It's all down to how you feel inside. It's possible to know if you are doing the right thing or not. "Science" and "Logic" may tell us that there is no one right way to behave, they may say it is all down to social codes or the mood of the age, they may finally posit that the need for happiness is important to us, but maybe it is not up to this Science to tell us how to behave. Science means "knowing", but I am asking you to do some "feeling".

All you can do is continue your life but with the application of some discernment. You can check to see how everything feels. Or did you think it does not matter how you feel? You just have to put up with things? Do what people tell you? Well, sometimes it's wise to do so. But when you generally ignore your own feeling, you are not an independent entity. You are a cog. In another wheel.

So listen to see if you feel good or bad. That's all it is. There are many levels of good and bad, including sometimes when one feels like the other. If you are not used to knowing how you feel, it is harder to know which is which. But if you start to think, you may perhaps continue!

The point of it is to discover where you can be applying yourself better. When you have a talent and you can use it, it feels good. If it is frustrated, it feels bad. The good feeling comes from your own genius being allowed to breathe in and out.

This feeling is the best feeling - you have contacted your real self. I think it is worth cultivating this feeling.

It is not possible to feel completely bad, to completely ignore your true self. You can think you are, but even that thought is coming from a true place - it is self-aware, not mindless. But I think it is possible to be more true.

This is what I mean about fakers - do you think they are feeling good or bad? Maybe they felt bad a long time ago and need to amass material wealth to protect themselves. It may all be rationally explicable, however much harm it is doing. Nevertheless it could be better for them, and for us of course.

I think that using your real skills is preferable to non-use of them. It must be. The problems are - not knowing you have them, not trusting that they are real, having been taught not to use them (makes life easier for people who want to dominate you), being scared. The alternatives are - being safe in a very limited way that isn't really safe, having an easy life that isn't really easy because you feel stress all the time, having a stable life with no massive excitements in it. None of these alternatives is particularly enticing.

Talents and skills may be all kinds of things. The definition of a talent is: something that gives a benefit to somebody. Yes, they are to be used, to help other people. Even more stupid! Shouldn't we just help ourselves? Well you can, but it's more lonely. And you may find that the nicer you are to the world, the nicer it is to you. See what happens the next time you kick somebody!

There's really loads of things you can do. And you don't have to do anything major, anything you do is part of learning about your skills. I'm sure you are using them right now, all today, all this week. But I just wanted to say - yes you do have a talent. You are using it all the time no matter how fulfilled you are feeling. And you may continue using it until it flowers.

You know there are key moments in the life of a flower when the scent is at its height and best for harvesting by perfume makers. Could people be like that? Maybe there is something you are working towards. And every minute is adding to the experience that will make that fabulous scent when you are ready. There are no skunks or rubbish tip smells. They only come when you try to stop the flowers blooming. No, it is all roses and violets for you from now on.

Keep working hard! Everyone will benefit, and you too.

When there's a twinge...

Finger and hand muscles are basically very small so you have to be very careful with them. Using them is not the same as using your legs, for example. Or you could think that it is the same, but on a different scale. Running a mile might be enough for one day, but for your fingers running a mile might be a lot less than a mile simce they are rather small compared to leg muscles.

Today I felt a small pain in my right hand so I know I have to stop until it is not there any more. But it is frustrating because I want to play 20 hours! And it feels like if you stop practising then you will not improve. BUT. If you continue injuring yourself then you will get worse, not improve. That's why I'm always angry with people who say they are injured but they still have to practise. Then we know why they are injured. You have to look after yourself better than that.

Well this is an extremely temporary problem, fortunately, because I do stop when I receive the signal to stop. It's called pain and it says Hey, you are doing something wrong here, please rest now. But many of us feel the pain but do not listen to it.

Where are you feeling a pain, and what is it telling you?

Occasionally you have to keep going through pain, and sometimes it is not a true pain, just something new. But mostly we need to listen to this voice.

Heat Wave Claims

Supposedly London is in the grip of some kind of super-extreme heatwave! That normally means temperatures have skyrocketed up to the mid twenties - for English people that is far above normal. In this case the thermometers must have all exploded because we have reached the two-digit part of the scale beginning with "3" - that's 30°C!

According to news sources and people in general, it is too hot!

But according to me, it is a little on the cool side!

Yes, I only begin to enjoy myself at 30°. It's a fact. And as we are only just touching that, I would like a little bit more.

Of course I realise that it is too hot for some people and that some of those may find it difficult to get through - or even survive (in some cases). The people here are not used to it and do not know about hydration anyway. They think a cup of tea with milk in it is hydrating! Well, I don't even know what it's like to drink a cup of tea, because I have never had one. Never ever!

Now you are starting to ask if I am really English. I don't wear a bowler hat, either! I have played cricket though. A bit. It's good as long as everyone keeps quiet, not like this modern style which is a bit like baseball. The more colourful clothes and lively music are supposed to make it more popular, and I'm sure they have, however I appear to think it is still 1952 0r 1882 or something. Yes, the lemonade has been poured and the sun's on the croquet lawn. One of the servants has been made destitute as a consequence of not bowing low enough, England are 445 for 3 against the West Indies and we have just added another six countries to our portfolio of interests, or Commonwealth as we call it. That troublemaker Gandhi is nowhere to be seen and no Kaisers or Führers have yet dared to disturb Britannia's calm seas (and iron grip over them).

As you will no doubt realise, I'm not entirely in favour of our colonial habits (many of which we have lost now) though it seems I do like the idea of that England in some choice aspects. Tough luck for me that if I were alive then, I'd probably be down a mine somewhere rather than shimmying across the lawn!

Anyway, it is England in some way or another, and it is hot, and I am beginning to thrive, as I always will at this temp!

Hurrah! Jolly good show, eh what?

Strike Struck

Today (and tomorrow actually) there is a Tube strike! (That means the workers of London's underground railway service are refusing to work, translated for people who don't know what tube and strike are)

It means you have to walk to your work, or sit (actually probably stand) on your bus for 2-3 hours!

So what was different about today? All the little people crawled out of their holes, yawned several times, and squinted their eyes and said What is that in my eyes? and the answer was It is the sunlight, welcome to the world!

They couldn't sit on the train scowling with their iPod banging away in their ears - they were RELEASED!

It was exciting and quite sweet because everyone had a map - they don't know where anything is in real life! Let's see, I"m standing on some kind of "road", it seems to be, and I need to get to a sort of er "street" I think it is called, but the Tube is not working. What do I do? Can you see a taxi...?

It was just like in the Simpsons when the cartoon Itchy and Scratchy is cancelled and all the children go outside to play, to the sound of Beethoven's 'Pastoral' Symphony.

Welcome!

You were annoyed about the strike perhaps, but I was happy to see you!

For the first time!