Mass Disclosure Preparation

[4/9/2022 UPDATE: Pentagon releases 1,500 pages of secret documents about shadowy UFO programme after four year battle https://www.the-sun.com/news/5053632/us-government-releases-1500-pages-secret-documents-ufo-programme and https://www.livescience.com/ufo-report-human-biological-injuries and some claiming all these documents available at: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lL1b6yHJ_A7bnNEANhKq2w9Y0uuieWh4]

The recent series of talks “How Much Can People Cope With” by Randi Green prompts this post exploring the kind of planning requirements coming along with a significant mass scale societal disclosure from the reams and reams of (now mostly) classified information — topics with potential to destroy the worlds the vast majority of people now “live in”.

Slow Drip of Disclosure by Richard Dolan [unavailable when last checked on 7/1/21] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8xkpDj9PSg

It is hard to know exactly the current extent of the amount of classified information — because it’s classified. There’s an entire “Intelligence” industry surrounding it with many clearances, compartmentalizations, hierarchies, subterfuge, hijinks, hijacking, counterintelligence, sequestration and myriad other protection methods and strategies. Not to mention Special Access Programs and especially the more off-book Unacknowledged Special Access Programs operating with minimal to (below) zero accountability and oversight.

Such extreme classification seems a significant factor in why more and more people speculate on metaphysical, geopolitical, parapolitical and exopolitical phenomena. While some of this speculation is more skillful than others, it is not unsurprising since there are so many questions and holes, and things not adding up with what we now know and are told. And because of such accelerating speculation, credible information that seems like speculation, can now be more easily written off as speculation.

First off, unfortunately, it’s not just as simple as getting information. Information comes in various types including:

  • credible
  • false
  • distorted
  • misleading
  • colored
  • a mix of these

While obviously some information requires heightened secrecy and security — such as major weapon systems and other potential means of harm and death — it is highly likely other classified information of a more benign nature has already circulated amongst the public for quite some time, yet remains officially classified. Sensitivity of information ranges from between high red alert to pedestrian, as well as stuff that likely doesn’t even apply to such a scale.

So how do we go from where we are now to where we need to be with disclosure, and how can that even be determined?

Many in the alternative media continue calling for an official-like “disclosure” (event). [Note: the links in this blog post do not necessarily imply any connective significance.] But I’ve yet to see nor hear a detailed action plan of how this can ideally be gone about. I neither advocate nor oppose such a thing. However, here are a few questions to toss on the fire, and/or move around with a poker:

  • Due to the vast difference of abilities, interests, levels of consciousness, patterning, ways of coping and responding, etc., where would the starting point even be for determining what to share — and not share — with the public?
  • How then would information prioritization and rollout occur?
  • How many rabbit holes would this open up? How many would it close? How many would dig new rabbit holes? How many would know how far to follow — and not follow — a rabbit hole? How much would be beneficial, and how much would be distraction and detrimental?
  • If certain information has been known for a long time, and the intel community has continually lied about it, how would they then manage their credibility?
  • What are, or would be, the agendas and counter-agendas involved, and how would we know?
  • How would any false or misrepresentations of history and true(r) depictions of history — in addition to prediction models of the future — come into play?
  • How might the determination of the effectiveness for passive disclosure and active disclosure methods be carried out?
  • If it hasn’t already been in the making, what kind of viability is there for the extent of activity needed within the intel communities for enacting large scale disclosure?
  • What about the small amounts of credible and non-credible disclosure we’ve potentially already received for awhile now and maybe (will) continue to get?
  • Are some meant to come across certain high-level information due to (pre)determinism, or karma, or affinity, or progression level, or synchronicity, or state of being? If so, how does this factor in? Do folks know exactly what they need to know, exactly when they need to know it? How would you know one way or another?
  • It seems if somebody is not meant to encounter certain information then all manner of coping and protective mechanisms automatically kick in. What are all these; how do they work; what makes some of these more likely to be effective for certain people; and how can their helpfulness or harmfulness be assessed?

If for some reason (important) disclosed information is rejected, it is still a seed planted in consciousness. We can also likely learn what kind of stuff is skillful and wise to be disclosed, and what isn’t, by noticing reception, response and behavior.

Is disclosure relevant to your meditation practice? If so, how? If not, why not?

Click to access cia-rdp79b00752a000300130001-1.pdf

CIA UFO document declassified in 2013 via https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp79b00752a000300130001-1

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Also see: https://toveje.dk/hal-new-reality/hal-processes-of-disclosure and https://sites.google.com/view/hal-future-humanities-project/new-narratives/full-disclosure-article

Corona-19, Hypertension And Qi | (2/23/2021 — “Ask Us Anything – LIVE” With Denny K Miu)

Just the slides ma’am

For this month’s regular open-audience, open-discussion “Ask Us Anything” — continuing discussions about meditation and related topics — Denny and I address present day popular topics of interest related to, and expanding upon, last month’s AUA on Qigong and Daoyin.

First and foremost, as our presentation states, this is not medical advice. We share information and knowledge from our own study, practice and experiences. Please consult a health care professional while considering any new treatments and/or changing your current professional medical care.

Denny starts by sharing statistics on CV and some of the correlations with high blood pressure. We then move into approaching hypertension from various angles, including the power of the mind, but most notably, the importance and interrelationship of high blood pressure with Qi from a place of common sense as well as some of the intricacies. We wrap up by quickly listing my follow up questions to our previous presentation on Qi (since we ran out of time.)

Here are our original notes not in linear order to how our talk unfolded:

Continue reading “Corona-19, Hypertension And Qi | (2/23/2021 — “Ask Us Anything – LIVE” With Denny K Miu)”

Orgonite-like Resonance Art To Support Mastery Of The Four Elements

I commissioned David Hults of Alternative Life Guide to create four custom orgonite-like “Resonance Art” pieces with the intention “to support ideal mastery of earth, water, wind and fire, for the wellbeing and awakening of all, as allowed by the highest spiritual law.”

Please call out this project if there are any traces of unwholesomeness, unskillfulness and/or anything at all unwise.

Each piece corresponds to one of the great four elements. And each contains four minerals associated with that element, plus copper, and each with one quartz crystal I found in Arkansas for activation, amplification and stabilization.

Fun creational fact: the fire one actually broke the mold!

By the way, creating and/or listing meditations and resources for the four great elements are on the Integrating Presence to-do list.

David charges $25 plus supplies and time/labor for custom pieces. If you’d like to actualize a four elements set like this, and/or something of your own design, reach out via David’s site Alternative Life Guide.

And if so inclined, check out our previous two posts and videos:

https://integratingpresence.com/2020/12/08/life-force-art-technology-and-digging-crystals-in-conversation-with-david-hults-part-1/
https://integratingpresence.com/2020/12/12/energy-consciousness-psychology-and-inner-work-in-conversation-with-david-hults-part-2/

Pics of orgonite from the internet just because

Confluence Zen Center: Introduction to ZEN MEDITATION

Recently wrapped up a multi-week study with Confluence Zen Center on Instructions for the Cook (Tenzo kyôkun) by Dôgen Zenji. A classic line from the text:

Wash [the dishes] so that they are completely pure and clean, placing up high those that belong in high places and putting down low those that belong in low places. “High places are high and level; low places are low and level.”

And another striking selection:

When Xuefeng resided at Dongshan [monastery], he served as cook. One day when he was sifting rice [master] Dongshan asked him, “Are you sifting the sand and removing the rice, or sifting the rice and removing the sand?” Xuefeng said, “Sand and rice are simultaneously removed.” Dongshan asked, “What will the great assembly eat?” Xuefeng overturned the bowl. Dongshan said, “In the future you will go and be scrutinized by someone else.”

As previously mentioned, before we studied Instructions for the Cook we studied ‘A Blueprint of Enlightenment: A Contemporary Commentary on Dōgen Zenji’s “Gokudō Yōjinshū” (Guidelines for Studying the Way)’ by Gien Inoue. Both groups facilitated and led by Soto Zen priest Rev. Daigaku Rumme´.

And again now, the forthcoming 2021 class series an Introduction to ZEN MEDITATION the evenings of 2/25, 3/4, 3/11, 3/18 and 3/25 at Confluence Zen Center in Maplewood, Missouri.

Classes include zazen meditation beginning with 10 minutes and working up to 30 minutes, as well as learning walking meditation. To register call 314-669-4465 or email confluencezen@gmail.com with name and contact information.

Gender (Confusion?)

Why and how has the topic of gender become so prevalent, pervasive and taken such precedence — appearing on forms, social media bios, etc., often with no opt-out, or room for comment — seemingly overnight, perhaps in a manner similar to The Corona?

What are the origins, and who are the major supporters of this phenomena? What are the ramifications of all those whom frame gender the way it is now being framed, and ramifications for those who base requirements around this, and for those who promote, use and consent to such frameworks, as well as ramifications for those who denigrate, decry, fight and opt-out?

Is the amplified (purported) importance of gender helpful, not helpful, good, bad, ugly, or otherwise?

And as for appearing on IntegratingPresence.com, what is the relevance of gender (confusion and politics) to meditation? I’m not really sure. The historical Buddha, when asked “who are you” often replied with the “Tathāgata” instead of using the pronouns me, I or myself. “Tathāgata” means something like, “I am thus” or “I’m like this” or “this is how I am” or “one who has thus gone” or “one who has thus come”, or sometimes “one who has thus not gone.” Perhaps uttered to indicate the having gone beyond the human condition, and beyond the otherwise endless cycle of rebirth and death, beyond dukkha (aka stress and unsatisfactoriness). Because with ultimate reality, gender does not apply:

Amongst the ultimately non-existent, amongst women, men, it [ignorance] hurries on; amongst the existent, however, amongst the aggregates, etc., it does not hurry on….

What does this mean? It means that ignorance (delusion) sees only conventional truth(sammuti∙sacca): women and men, mothers and fathers, wives and husbands, daughters and sons, dogs, cats, pigs, and chickens, etc. These things do not exist according to reality(yathā∙bhūta).

The things that do exist according to reality, however, are the aggregates(khandha), the elements(dhātu), the bases(āyatana), mentality-materiality(nāma∙rūpa), dependent origination(paṭicca∙samuppāda), the workings of kamma, the three characteristics, etc.: in brief, the Four Noble Truths. These things, which are ultimate truth(paramattha∙sacca), ignorance does not see. And as we also explained in connection with the ‘Gaddula∙Baddha’ sutta, that is why beings run on from life to life. This ignorance is the delusion associated with unwholesome consciousnesses.

Greed, hatred, and delusion make a consciousness unwholesome, which means the volition is unwholesome: unwholesome kamma. The Buddha calls it also evil (pāpa), and demerit(apuñña). And the accomplishment of unwholesome kamma, He calls also bad conduct(du∙ccarita), and demeritorious formation(apuññ∙ābhisaṅ- khāra). If that kamma produces its result, it will be an unwished for, undesired and disagreeable result, and will lead to continued production of kamma.

— from p.47 of The Workings of Karma by meditation master the Most Venerable Pa-Auk Tawya Sayadaw

It seems though, the majority of beings still find themselves within relative, or conventional reality.

I don’t really have any answers, or opinions, nor currently any impetus for involvement with another topic seemingly readymade for divisiveness, or even desire to study this much.

However, the information below I class as significantly relevant and missing from the everyday thinking and increasingly status quo narrative on gender, and have already shared it privately with several folks. Firstly, some of the most pertinent information via the Ascension Glossary article Gender Confusion Pain followed by a full newsletter dedicated to the Law of Gender.

Gender Confusion Pain:

Psychological and emotional pain in regard to gender confusion, sensations of gender-mix up, feeling ostracized and bullied for feeling different in this way is a source of real psychological-spiritual trauma that may start in early childhood. Unfortunately our society is not equipped to support children and adults that may suffer greatly with inner gender reversals and related gender confusion as a result of spiritual or sexual trauma. The point of this information is to be aware that there is a specific Mind Control agenda to spread transhumanism through surgically and medically induced transgenderism in order to reverse the inner gender principle, which destroys the human lightbody. We have to know we have a Lightbody and how it works in male and female principle, before we can accurately assess ourselves and our environment about who we really are as a human being. How can a human being that has been subjected to psychological warfare and Social Engineering targeting his or her gender and sexual beliefs throughout their lifetime, make a sound and healthy decision that impacts the state of their gender biology and sexual preferences? They simply cannot and are radically impaired.

Thus, as human beings we must make some effort to educate ourselves about the pitfalls of the current events happening in the Ascension Cycle, like transhumanism’s alliance with transgenderism and be willing to address the layers of spiritual trauma that damages gender. Sadly, religions tend to demonize others suffering with gender trauma and it’s important to recognize the true humanity, the heart and soul that is traumatized by such spiritually abusive behaviors. Compassion and Empathy for the suffering of human beings that undergo gender trauma is very much needed, as well as being better informed about such matters. As awake and informed parents, before allowing children to make decisions like taking hormone therapy, plastic surgery or sex change surgery, openly discussing gender issues and where permanent effects on the biology can potentially produce even more spiritual harm to the consciousness body is suggested.

Gender Biology

During the ascension cycle there is a lot of confusion about gender as people do not take into consideration that humans inherently have both male and female characteristics and operate in Gender Principle. The human body is designed as a gender biology that works in alignment to the Law of Gender and Law of Polarity. There is a necessity of being willing to do the inner emotional work to support our male and female to be expressed in the most energetically balanced way possible. If a male feels his feminine attributes and feminine right brain characteristics being activated in the Ascension Cycle, this does not mean he is transgender or he is a biological woman. If a school girl feels more masculine and wants to wear what society labels as male clothes, this does not necessarily mean she is transgender. Adults and children are incredibly confused about the forces they are being exposed to now. The problems with society placing demands on people to act in accordance to rigidly expected gender roles, shuts down their ability to explore gender issues openly without backlash. This sets up the problem of persecution and integration into a society that is not tolerant of flexible gender roles, which only increases desperation and suffering for all involved. People that feel desperate and are suffering with gender issues rarely make good decisions.

To better understand why Transgender people and gender reversals are radically increasing in the Death Culture requires reexamining the fundamentals of who we are as human beings and what makes us men or women. Also we must acknowledge that gender principles and the gender concept is currently being greatly expanded upon in human beings during the ascension cycle. As a part of spiritual evolution we have to inquire deeply inside and take a hard look at ourselves, to give some thought to how the death culture has defined gender and places expectations on males and females in different ways. Before we can truly understand how someone can have a different gender than their assigned gender biology, we have to understand the Law of Gender and how gender actually translates into our body and Consciousness. We must explore how the concept of gender was built into the NAA mind control programs, how it was used as a weapon against us and how the gender split has affected us all. This goes way beyond just accepting others and allowing them to be themselves, and takes us into the deeper examination of who we really are and what we are becoming.[1]

Gender Wounds

Some of the most traumatizing events are those painful memories from distortions existing between men and women being forced to abuse each other, over and over. These Gender Principle distortions have been used to propagate some of the deepest levels of spiritual abuse, Sexual Misery and personal torture that could occur to a race of beings. Many people feel this pain as Soul crushing and there are reasons for that which is warranted from the cellular memories of hidden human history. True spiritual marriage as a part of natural biological spiritual Ascension was stolen from humanity through the NAA alien invasion, and the pain of that theft and emotional abuse has damaged many people’s hearts. The heart damage, both physical and energetic, has blocked the soul’s center of communication with the entire body. For this reason there is a unconscious terror in accessing the heart center because the soul wound is so painful for so many on the earth.

Related Integrating Presence post: World Wide Wise Speech Part 2: Gender | August 31, 2023 “Meditation Q & A With Wendy Nash” #12

World Wide Wise Speech Part 2: Gender | August 31, 2023 “Meditation Q & A With Wendy Nash” #12

Law of Gender

Dear Ascending Family,

With the shifts into the next Harmonic Universe there are some changes happening in the light body, which are affecting merkaba mechanics and how the gender fins of the light body operate.  With these changes come new opportunities to uncover and heal any gender distortions we may be carrying.  These changes also deepen our understanding of how Gender Principles are part of the Natural Laws, and how unifying gender principles manifests as the diamond sun Krystallah orb body. With the Paliadorian Activations there are new mathematical proportions of the diamond sun 12 Tree Grid pattern being embodied, including the reclamation of Adamic lines. In contrast there is an aggressive form of gender confusion being amplified, which is linked with the Transhumanist agenda. We observe what is happening in the promotion of gender reassignment surgeries and discuss some of the impacts Transgenderism may have on the soul and lightbody. 

All things exist within the Gender Principle of Creation, everything has its masculine and feminine principle, which produce metaphysical forces. These forces arrange within the spiritual blueprints that translate into the gender principle that manifests itself upon all dimensional planes.  There is not one aspect of life, consciousness and creation where the masculine and feminine principles remain non-existent or absent, it is an absolute truth that the Law of Gender is manifested within everything. It is impossible for creation to take place without this Universal Law in action at some level, even when the gender principles have been replicated, reversed, or manipulated through artificial technology. Whether organic or inorganic the Law of Gender will always apply to what has been manifested. Gender principle is intrinsic to every form in existence including the human body, which is designed in a gender principle biology.  It is important to be aware that the Law of Gender is intentionally violated, damaged and distorted by the NAA upon the earth, as they learned that through splitting the gender principle into grotesque mutations, it further served their enslavement agenda.

Continue reading “Gender (Confusion?)”

(Mostly Regular/Daily) Virtual Meditation Groups

As previously stated, fortunately or unfortunately, or both, or neither, Zoom services, studies groups, retreats and shorter practice periods are part of meditation practice for folks at this time.

There are benefits to both solo meditation and practicing with a group. In a way, we all basically both arrive on earth alone and leave alone, being separated from all we hold dear. Solo practice can allow not only coming to terms with this but also cultivating a contentedness informing skillful thought, speech and action while we’re here. Group practice allows for teachers, community, friends, honorings, external validation (if still helpful), and support for meditation practice and all associated with it and beyond.

A sort of twist to this, as a teacher once told me, just as you can tap into the benefits of being and practicing outdoors simply by tuning in to what that’s like while indoors, one can practice solo meditation as if they were in a group setting and vice versa.

Please share anything that needs updating and additional related resources (in the comments) as this post is not regularly maintained

User friendly interface (inspired by and loosely based on a no longer functioning large Google Spreadsheet) of Freely Offered Online Insight Meditation Groups including times, teachers, websites, and zoom/online links: https://sittogethernow.base44.app/

  • sanditthika.org meditation community, at the time of writing this offers various online sitting groups. Sign up for their newsletter and/or contact them for more info and details
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From the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center (website as of Aug 17, 2025):

Dharma in Daily Life: Weekdays, 8:45 – 9:00 AM (Zoom link)

• Evening sit: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, 6:00 – 6:45 PM

• Teatime Dharma: Mondays, 4:00 – 5:30 PM

• Sitting & Sangha: Mondays, 6:00 – 7:15 PM

• Beginners Drop-In: Tuesdays, 6:00 – 7:00 PM

• Beginners Drop-In Tea: Monthly on Tuesday, 7:00 – 7:45 PM

• Wednesday Evening Dharma: 6:30 – 8:45 PM

• Thursday Morning Retreat: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM

• Sunday Afternoon Extended Practice: 2:00 – 5:15 PM

Affinity groups:

• Elders: two Tuesdays a month, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

• Parents: one Thursday a month, 8:00 – 9:15 PM

• POC: one Friday a month, 6:30 – 8:15 PM

• LGBTQIA+: one Friday a month, 7:00 – 8:30 PM

• Chronic Illness & Disability: one Sunday a month, 5:30 – 7:00 PM

• 35 & Under: two Sundays a month, 6:30 – 7:45 PM

https://www.clearmountainmonastery.org/events/

https://gaiahouse.co.uk/online-offerings/online-dharma-hall:

‘The sessions are held by Gaia House teachers, Community Dharma Leaders (CDL) and trainee teachers. Each meeting includes some meditation, Dharma teachings and time for questions.

The sessions are offered three times weekly via the easy-to-use Zoom platform. The sessions last between 1 hour 15 mins and 1 hour 30 mins.’

Via Dharma Gates:

This page is a constantly growing compendium of resources to support one’s practice primarily for those based in the United States. It is not comprehensive. Online Practice Communities:

Theravada / Vipassana:

Zen:

Meditation Resources for BIPOC:

Practice Grants:

Awaken the World Drop-in Meditations:

SILENT MEDITATIONS EVERY DAY 8AM AND 8PM EST

No guidance is offered during our daily hour long silent meditations, just a start and end bell. The meetings offer a space for sitting in silence, listening to a recorded Awaken the World meditation, or any recording that best serves your practice.  We do ask that you remain as still as possible and keep your audio muted.  https://zoom.us/j/6131117777

GUIDED 30 MIN MEDITATIONS EVERY MONDAY 8PM EST

GUIDED 60 MIN MEDITATIONS SAT. FEB 13TH AND 27TH 8AM EST 2021

Four Noble Truths [Feb 8, 2023 Update: currently inactive]:

Please send us an email or a text for Zoom meeting ID.

Online Group Sit – once a month from 7:00am ~ 1:00pm (PST) | English @ Zoom

Online Dhamma Study: Buddhism – every Sunday at 9:00am | English @ Zoom

Online Dhamma Study: Paṭṭhāna – every other week on Sunday at 4:30pm | 華文 Only @ Zoom

Online Dhamma Study: Abhidhamma – every Thursday at 6:00pm | 華文 Only @ Zoom

RSVP/Inquiry @ Buddhas4NobleTruths@gmail.com | phone @ +1.626.524.4864 | Facebook: Cattari Ariya Saccani (Four Noble Truths)

Tuesdays Two Hour Whatsapp Sitting Group (I admin currently (as of Feb 8, 2023) primarily consisting of text reminders; contact me for invite)

https://midamericadharma.org/index.php/practice-groups-in-the-central-us

Confluence Zen Center:

MORNING ZAZEN
Mondays/ Tuesdays/ Thursdays
6:20 a.m.- 7:00 a.m. (40 minute sitting meditation)
Followed by a short sutra service
Please arrive at least 5 minutes prior to sitting

EVENING ZAZEN
Mondays
7:00 pm- 7:40 pm
Followed by a short sutra service

Rotating Sunday Practice Schedule

Insight Timer app and https://insighttimer.com/live especially at 10am and 8pm Central on Saturdays for Denny K Miu’s Mindful Exercises

Lists of Active Meditations from WeLoveMassMeditation.com

Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Daily Sit:

With Bill & Susan Morgan

Monday-Friday: 10:30-11:15 AM EDT (Facilitated Sitting)

Saturday & Sunday: 10:30-11:00 AM EDT (Silent Meditation)

Click Here to Join the Sit

Enter the passcode: 108108

Hokyoji.org Morning Practice on Zoom:

Zoom Link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82548975341?pwd=eVVJR08vK0tldERvNUQ2cGs1dnV6Zz09

Schedule

6:30 zazen

7:05 kinhin

7:15 zazen

7:40 service

7:45 brief check-in

Join at any time (all times CST)

Daily, on demand, and meditation retreats from Spirit Rock and Insight Meditation Society (IMS)

Sharing additional resources in the comments is welcome and encouraged

An Integrating Presence Meditation: Foundations of Mindfulness — February 10, 2021 At Fat Cat Longevity

Meditation Audio: Foundations of Mindfulness — recorded live at Fat Cat Longevity 2/10/21

This recorded live guided meditation goes through the first three foundations of mindfulness — body; hedonic or feeling tone of pleasant, unpleasant, or neither of these; and mind. (Apologies for the heating system and water feature sounds.)

Join meditation 7:00-7:45pm Wednesday, February 10th at http://FatCatLongevity.com downstairs next to Peace Love Coffee at Mary’s House of Healing, St Charles, MO. We plan to start with brief instructions along with a discussion before and after.

https://facebook.com/freyflow/

Mary’s House of Healing
524 South Main Street
Downstairs at Fat Cat Longevity next to Peace Love Coffee…
St. Charles, MO 63301

February 10, 2021 — 7:00pm – 7:45pm

Doors open: 6:50pm — Doors close: 7:05pm

Cost: Fat Cat Longevity price packages, monthly membership or generosity inspired donation

Is Reading This Blog Post Worth $10,000 An Hour?

Is this life activity, what ever it may be, worth $10,000 an hour? This seemingly outlandish question — at least at first anyway — came across my ears recently from a podcast with a former college who recommends continually asking this question. While our paths have mostly diverted — in very valid and beneficial ways for both — this question strikes strong in its power and its command of prioritization.

I too have yet to find anything to qualify. Besides being able to speak with fellow human beings in real life (something we still take for granted), meditation is the only thing coming close for me.

This $10,000 question, in a very common way most modern people easily innerstand, slaps us with the immediacy, fleeting nature and importance of each and every moment, never to return again in the same way.

As for meditation being the closest thing worth $10,000 an hour, imagine actually paying that amount then meditating. Do you think your mind would wander off as much?

If you’re already around the ages of 30 or 40 are there really many experiences left on your bucket list significantly different from what you’ve already known and/or watched and heard many countless others do?

This is not to discredit external reality, it is more to draw attention to our inner worlds which remain primarily unexplored by the masses with access not currently as limited as the external world in extent and ease of accessibility. Not to mention the primary reasons for meditation.

Whatever the answer, or lack of answer to this question is — using a $10,000 monetary price point as a mirror to represent real non-monetary value — do you humbly value your time, and more importantly, yourself in such a way?

Meditation Object Detractors

The extent of shaming and shameless proliferation in the meditating mind can sometimes be staggering. (Perhaps drawing inspiration from the hand sketched characters within the artwork from the Beastie Boy’s Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 record) what’s listed below are various forms of mental activity that can arise and fade away during meditation reformulated into a personality, character or title.

The wide ranging advice and instructions on how to address and deal with these characters won’t be gone into here other than the self-inquiry prompts of: what do you do, or would you do, or not do with these guys while on the cushion? What kind of character considers such a question? What kind of relationships are involved? Would it make sense to allow (any of) them a supporting role in staying with the meditation object? Should I just delete this blog post?

Also, feel free to sketch these.

There’s the:

  • inquirer
  • master planner
  • helper
  • humanitarian
  • reminiscer
  • instructor
  • conversationalist
  • alarmist
  • fascinater
  • baiter
  • day dreamer
  • fantasizer
  • the space out
  • lostling
  • authoritarian
  • (false) expert
  • distractor
  • escapist
  • infantilist
  • royalist
  • analyser / analyst
  • doubter
  • freak(out)
  • proliferationist
  • urger
  • advocate
  • brainiac
  • (false) genius
  • trickster
  • dice(wo)man
  • deliverer
  • rescuer
  • messenger
  • calmist
  • doer
  • (play-by-play sports) commentator
  • comedian
  • fixer
  • cell mate
  • validator
  • admirer
  • person of valor
  • assessor
  • judge, jury and executioner
  • reveler
  • revelator
  • marketer and promoter
  • manager
  • thought/people pleaser
  • commiserater
  • follower
  • guru
  • officiant
  • entitlement demander
  • referee
  • negotiator
  • arbitrator
  • diplomat
  • justifier
  • astonisher

4/6/2021 UPDATE: Recently realized a potential caveat pertaining to this post — that which some call Dissociative Identity Disorder (formally known as Multiple Personality Disorder) while others mention (their) “alters”. Whether creditable or not, such a topic and related topics seemly hold potential to become quite dark quite quickly with material like the Congressionally documented Project MK ULTRA; claims of (Project) Monarch; SRA/trauma-based-mind-control (with two counselors being Sandra Fecht and Jay Parker); and even a book called The Illuminati Formula to Create an Undetectable Total Mind Control Slave which enumerates intricate details. The links above are a few one-sided resources — as countering information seems more easily locatable at the moment. Such links are for those who feel called to research this stuff in the cases that this post happened to trigger more than eliciting lightheartedness and if there happens to be anything to this. If researching please exercise caution and discernment and know the researcher bears responsibly for any and all outcomes, or lack of outcomes.

Wisdom Snippets: Truth

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Definition of veracity

noun — ve·​rac·​i·​ty | \ və-ˈra-sə-tē

1 : conformity with truth or fact : accuracy

2 : devotion to the truth : truthfulness

3 : power of conveying or perceiving truth

4 : something true makes lies sound like veracities

Truth. Solipsism? 2 + 2 = 4. Relative and ultimate truths. Here’s some quotes and bits and pieces regarding truth (which doesn’t really need defending):

Truth is that which conforms to fact and reality. Truth is precise accordance with what is. Truth is the body of real things, actual events, genuine facts. Truth is the authentic nature and condition of something.

Neil Kramer

Truth is not a reward for good behavior nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is the primary, the unborn, the ancient source of all that is. You are eligible because you are. You need not merit truth. It is your own..

~Nisargadatta Maharaj

“…people are prepared to transcend all moral boundaries to sustain their view and to fixate upon it beyond all reason. Beyond investigation. Investigation is considered a conspiracy. To actually try to find truth is considered a deviant occupation…”

~Ajahn Sucitto

“Bright, loud and mobile is the false. Subtle and indistinct is the true.”

Master Hsuan Hua in a dream via https://www.abhayagiri.org/talks/7049-spiritual-friends-and-coming-out-of-delusion at 1:20:30

How can there be the experience of truth — it is prior to the beingness? Knowingly you cannot go into that beyond time.

~Nisargadatta Maharaj

Does truth have meaning? If so, is that meaning inherent, assigned, both, or otherwise? If not, does truth need or benefit from meaning?

Belief is the enemy of knowing

crrow777radio.com

To speak the truth is (like) amrita; truth cannot be surpassed. The truth is holding fast to what is good and to what is right, say the righteous.

https://suttacentral.net/uv-kg8/en/rockhill

Truth is always good news; even if it is the truth about something unpleasant because then you can actually master it

-Ajahn Sucitto (Well-being is the Shape of the Heart retreat)

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person; give him a mask and he will tell you the truth.

~Oscar Wilde

‘A Lie Is Halfway Round the World Before the Truth Has Got Its Boots On’

https://interestingliterature.com/2021/06/lie-halfway-round-world-before-truth-boots-on-quote-origin-meaning/

Truth defends itself.

Truth destroys the world you used to live in.

Truth can never be destroyed.

You can’t change the truth.

The truth is all there is.

There are higher truths as well as lower truths wherein each lower truth acts as a step on a staircase helping you ascend into higher altitudes of perspective.

Matt Kahn

Two truths teaching in Buddhism — “conventional” or “provisional” (saṁvṛti) truth, and the “ultimate” (paramārtha) truth.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

~Thomas Sowell

There are truths that are 4 ways:

  1. pleasant and profitable
  2. unpleasant and profitable
  3. pleasant and unprofitable
  4. unpleasant and unprofitable

“As for the course of action that is unpleasant to do but that, when done, leads to what is profitable, it’s in light of this course of action that one may be known—in terms of manly stamina, manly persistence, manly effort—as a fool or a wise person. For a fool doesn’t reflect, ‘Even though this course of action is unpleasant to do, still when done it leads to what is profitable.’ So he doesn’t do it, and thus the non-doing of that course of action leads to what is unprofitable for him. But a wise person reflects, ‘Even though this course of action is unpleasant to do, still when done it leads to what is profitable.’ So he does it, and thus the doing of that course of action leads to what is profitable for him.

“As for the course of action that is pleasant to do but that, when done, leads to what is unprofitable, it’s in light of this course of action that one may be known— in terms of manly stamina, manly persistence, manly effort—as a fool or a wise person. For a fool doesn’t reflect, ‘Even though this course of action is pleasant to do, still when done it leads to what is unprofitable.’ So he does it, and thus the doing of that course of action leads to what is unprofitable for him. But a wise person reflects, ‘Even though this course of action is pleasant to do, still when done it leads to what is unprofitable.’ So he doesn’t do it, and thus the non-doing of that course of action leads to what is profitable for him.”

Aṅguttara Nikāya
Book of the Fours
4.115. Courses of Action

Conviction is a person’s highest wealth…. Truth is the highest of tastes. Living with discernment, one’s life is called best.

Alavaka Sutta

The Gift Of Truth Excels All Other Gifts

translation of the Pali ‘Sabba Danam Dhamma Danam Jinati’
Truth is reality. Reality is not on screen. Reality is what’s right in front of you
Truth Is Simple and Singular by Luka Bönisch

“Truth is not hidden. You are hiding from it.” — Nisargadatta Maharaj

Read on Substack

“…There are five things that can turn out in two ways in the here-&-now. Which five? Conviction, liking, unbroken tradition, reasoning by analogy, & an agreement through pondering views. These are the five things that can turn out in two ways in the here-&-now. Now some things are firmly held in conviction and yet vain, empty, & false. Some things are not firmly held in conviction, and yet they are genuine, factual, & unmistaken. Some things are well-liked and yet vain, empty, & false. Some things are not well-liked, and yet they are genuine, factual, & unmistaken. Some things are an unbroken tradition and yet vain, empty, & false. Some things are not an unbroken tradition, and yet they are genuine, factual, & unmistaken. Some things are well-reasoned and yet vain, empty, & false. Some things are not well-reasoned, and yet they are genuine, factual, & unmistaken. Some things are well-pondered and yet vain, empty, & false. Some things are not well-pondered, and yet they are genuine, factual, & unmistaken. In these cases it isn’t proper for a knowledgeable person who safeguards the truth to come to a definite conclusion, ‘Only this is true; anything else is worthless.“

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When, on observing that the monk is purified with regard to qualities based on delusion, he places conviction in him. With the arising of conviction, he visits him & grows close to him. Growing close to him, he lends ear. Lending ear, he hears the Dhamma. Hearing the Dhamma, he remembers it. Remembering it, he penetrates the meaning of those dhammas. Penetrating the meaning, he comes to an agreement through pondering those dhammas. There being an agreement through pondering those dhammas, desire arises. With the arising of desire, he becomes willing. Willing, he contemplates (lit: “weighs,” “compares”). Contemplating, he makes an exertion. Exerting himself, he both realizes the ultimate meaning of the truth with his body and sees by penetrating it with discernment.

“To this extent, Bharadvaja, there is an awakening to the truth. To this extent one awakens to the truth. I describe this as an awakening to the truth. But it is not yet the final attainment of the truth.

“Yes, Master Gotama, to this extent there is an awakening to the truth. To this extent one awakens to the truth. We regard this as an awakening to the truth. But to what extent is there the final attainment of the truth? To what extent does one finally attain the truth? We ask Master Gotama about the final attainment of the truth.”

“The cultivation, development, & pursuit of those very same qualities: to this extent, Bharadvaja, there is the final attainment of the truth. To this extent one finally attains the truth. I describe this as the final attainment of the truth.”

Selections from the Canki Sutta: With Canki
Audio: Edited Audio (of me mostly reading from this page) for the 4/8/2022 Insight Timer live event: Brief Readings on Truth
https://integratingpresence.com/2022/03/25/april-2022-insight-timer-live-events/

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