MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date. Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each episode always reflects the fluid motion of current events.
The sun does not go up or down, we go around. The sun is out even when clouds abound. The earth was never at the center of the universe even when it was thought to be. If basic thoughts about our environment are wrong imagine how complicated we can make the simplicity of nature seem.
How things seem is how things appear. To think things become what we think of them is not to think of them but what we think. This form of thought only seems self-centered once we believe thoughts are true and real - then leaping to thoughts create us seems natural even while thinking about thinking itself only creates more thoughts.
Obsessive thinking imagines we fear a self that never lived. Feeling better about what is wrong is how things get worse. We each choose how hard and far we want to push or pull things into or out of our thought’s orbit. The increasing and decreasing weight of what matters is the gravity of situation that we think we get pulled into or spit out of. Either greater or lesser way, they continue.
Thinking we are thoughts is to think we are in thoughts having lost all perspective. Rather than having thoughts, we think thoughts have us, can attack us, be intrusive, and out of our control - having a life of their own. This result is a byproduct of mis-utilizing thoughts' productive potential. The mechanics of thought will always react exactly as they do when false thoughts are relied on as truth.
We are free to think what we want. When what we think seems to condemn us we've chosen thoughts that are condemned. Turning thoughts great imaginative value into a liability uses feeling our back's against the wall as an excuse to suggest there's nothing else we can do but perpetuate this mythology. We don’t fear death we fear life filled with pity for thinking’s plight.
Our basic senses provide us with raw opinion-less data. We translate this sentient data into what we think. Despite our thoughts, things remain as they are, as we are as we are. Clinging to imagined ideas of truth automatically defends against the greatest possibilities in favor of scarcity, insufficiency, and doubt. How things seem accounts for appearance while all things really have substance unseen. Understanding is how we see invisibility. Even our eyes cannot see themselves yet we rely on them to see whenever they’re open. Our substantive nature is no different since our standing is existential. Understanding is how we see the essential realm of the indivisible - that we know we know and are aware we know.
To think of this as complicated is to think that vying for a life that does not exist is practical and sane. Imagine the endless complications involved in trying to have who and what we think become all that we and all things are.
Misconstruing life while trying to get the most out of life is to miss that we are out of our minds, thinking there is any more to get than all we have now. Our fear of letting go of an illusion we cling to as though we are saving our-self is just a thought thinking of itself.
We create our thoughts so when they seem to create us we have clearly turned our back on what is happening so we can imagine it must not be happening. The problem is never a problem until we concede the most fundamental problem.
Consider this and think about it,
so we can practice talking about it.