'Productivity' Articles
Do you feel productive today? There is that question of if we are productive enough, but the only reality behind that is the measure to which we are satisfied or frustrated with our activities. Part of you knows that if you aren’t engaged in the life process you aren’t being “productive/reproductive”. Basically you risk death, even if only spiritual. Everything is productive to the degree that it permits the wellbeing of the life form. Be fertile, be reproductive, be productive, be alive. How is that for a to-do list? Get that done and I feel you will have been productive enough. What about you?
“As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.” Seneca (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD)
“The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything -and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ”productive” man a yet higher species.” Friedrich Nietzsche (German classical Scholar, Philosopher and Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)
Do We Feel Productive?
Productivity is a big concern in the real world, is it not? Have any of you had a day where you did absolutely nothing? Really? Tell me how this was possible? Define “doing nothing”? Literally nothing. Think nothing. Do nothing. Not change in any way. Literally nothing? Not since between incarnations. I would debate even the do nothing idea between incarnations. I’ve had a day when I’ve done nothing productive, but that usually involves reading, listening to music , etc. Are you sure you did nothing productive? No effect was created by your activities at all? Maybe not. Relaxing is… Seek More
Engaged In Life
We are creative and expressive beings, living paradoxes if you will. I live by an old eastern saying, “Nothing is true, everything is permitted”. This relates very much to productivity, I feel. Anyone see how? Perhaps let’s examine the precept a portion at a time. It is very old. First the statement that nothing is true means there is no rigid set of rules or guidelines. The structure that would confine anything isn’t there, or is it? The statement of nothing being true taken to its logical conclusion also affirms that there is truth, because even to assert that nothing… Seek More
Purpose of Cognition
What is the purpose of cognition? It’s properly subordinate to perception, and perception is structured well before even your basic individual gene sequencing happens. It‘s structured at a quantum level. At the range of the “PSI” factor, and I mean PSI factor in the original quantum mechanical sense. The tendency of any set of bodies to function as a whole, from the atom to Gaia consciousness. We exist for a cognitive purpose. We are capable of creativity/artifice in the light of our perceptual connections, but our cognitive processes are not “our property” and the information generated by our cognitive function… Seek More
Willingness To Engage
A right level of productivity is measured by having a good feeling of engagement in life. An instinctive sense of “fullness” and a sense of continued willingness to engage. Even rejecting a metaphysical explanation, the body has an awareness of whether or not it’s operating at its full capacity. I’m thinking of times when I want to withdraw, what’s going on there? The desire to withdraw is a recognition of dissonant engagement. We have an instinct for when we aren’t in symbiosis with the environment. Either because we aren’t allowing ourselves to receive stimuli, or because we are sending disruptive… Seek More
Understanding A Dynamic
The topic is productivity. We tend to be very concerned with productivity, don’t we? Even if you aren’t employed? It’s a convoluted idea, this productivity. Have any of you spent a day doing literally nothing ever? Everything gets done always, but no one needs to do it. That’s the issue with productivity. As we live our lives, we each encounter situations and people. We react and take action. Is it possible to take no action at all? Even non action is an action. You had to be engaged enough to be aware that you should abstain from action, did you… Seek More
Impulse Originates Thought
Have any of you ever had a day when you had no impulse to do anything at all that day? Have any of you had a day where you had no impulse to act? Are you saying that a day spent doing nothing is a day well spent? Yes, and I’m also saying that when you understand action, you will come to understand that in fact all days are days spent doing nothing, and this is perfect. But impulse… We are told impulses are bad. We must not follow impulse. We must instead think, and even think twice. Tell me… Seek More
We All Belong
Desire forms are “emotional” forms, and in my opinion not the same as thought forms. Emotional forms are closer to Plato’s first forms, though there are forms that precede emotion. Do you all feel satisfied with your level of self expression in your lives? I offer you can be satisfied. Your very being will know when you are operating in fullness. Now mind you, by satisfied I don’t mean done. I mean full. Life isn’t done until you move on as reality has set up for us. I see that. At least progressing without being productive. Actually, there is no… Seek More
Being Is Productive
Empathy. Awareness of feeling. I am open to feeling, so I don’t have to own another persons feeling. They can have what they feel and I can offer my presence. If the person is encumbered by their feelings, they can become free in the same way, by being open to what they feel and open to experiencing other feelings. Suffering lasts not because of being open, but because of doing, fixing. Some folks when they get ill become happier and at peace, some get cranky and hate to live. It’s a choice, and our education doesn’t equip us well for making… Seek More
