Dedication, comes in many different forms, there is the dedication to train for a sport of some sort, there is the dedication to show up to work five days a week and the dedication to survive in this world. Dedication comes in small sizes like when you get out of bed in a morning and you are extra tired. Dedication is also very big like when you are some leader of some group like a country or religion for a period of years. But is this will power? Or is it something else? Will power is the fight for a cause, not a country or religion but instead for an original thought.
An idea is where someone thinks of some already invented thought and applies it to another thought. Then the person claims this is something new, but it is really just two old things put together. So as you can see an idea is not a thought, the same goes for theories and logic. An original thought is one of the real things to act by so do not justify your actions by logic or anything of the likes. But does this mean that an original thought is all we need to gain will power? No it is only part one.
Part two is applying the original thought to the real world were everything has a possibility to succeed but only original thoughts stand a chance, because unoriginal ideas are dependent on the fatal errors that have created this system of living. So if you use a flawed system to create another corrupted system there is no difference. Now the journey to push along the original thought is something that is always going to have an infinite amount of challenges. It is these internal and external challenges that are the cause of most people just giving up. It is only when the original thought has been experienced firsthand by the person that wants it to succeed that is can push by these obstacles.
Part three to get will power is too watch it, and dedication. Dedication rises up all the time for example when you spring out of bed to do something. So if you see it every day, every hour, every second here and now then then you can get a better understanding of it. Seeing will power and dedication are very important because when you see something in every dimension and none of them you have a strong perception of the moment and true perception is one of the main causes of will power.
Why is it that I use the term original thought? Why not just thought? If it were to be just a thought then it would mean that some external thing be it person, place or thing was the real source of the thought, not the person that wants it to succeed. So in this situation this “person” does not have a full understanding of whatever it is that he is trying to accomplish because the thought was not his own.
Is it possible to dedicate yourself to an important thing like environmentalism if all your thoughts are unoriginal? We all know environmentalism is not a new concept. So what must you do? For starters your ideas on accomplishing the ultimate goal can be original. There are common tactics that are good so does this mean that we cannot use them? No, but if those common tactics are used according to the text book then they will never succeed. Do you understand what I am saying? I am saying everything needs improvisation and must live in the moment. Text books don’t have the most important thing for success; they do not understand the moment. All a text book does is give advice but it has no real understanding of the situation the reader is in. So use these tactics but apply them in a new way.
All this has a very important role in will power, what you must understand is that if you are not doing all these things and are doing exactly what the rules say and are ignoring the moment then your goal whatever it may be, will be destroyed. In this process not only will your idea fail but you will lose the motivation to do it. The very system wears down not only what you want to accomplish but also you. This happens in schools when a child’s ideas get destroyed by the “curriculum” and then eventually he gets destroyed by the “curriculum”.
Society and civilization as we know it both destroy people’s will power and escaping this all depends on how much you are a part of it. It all falls into breaking yourself free of the world; once you know how to do that then you can know how to defend your original thought. This happens because when you are a free person this system has no power over you, it is dependent on keeping people who are not free of the world dependent. This thing is your idea so if you survive this system unaltered then your idea will to.
Now here’s the question. How can someone escape from the wold, society and civilization? You could move to the heart of Africa and live with the natives; you could live with the monks in Tibet to meditate the rest of your life, and there is always the option of living off the grid in northern Alaska. But if you are too soft then what you need to do is go on your own search for truth and the tools you need will come quickly, accomplishing them is a different matter, if you have the will then there is no problem. And what you are reading right now is what you need to do to find the will.
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Sometimes you will find that the will inside you has taken a life of its own, almost as if your very own idea is controlling you instead of you guiding it. What has happened in this situation? Is it that you have taken the wrong path and your idea is really bogus? Not worth the effort? Maybe it is just that you have forgotten why whatever you are doing is important? Perhaps other more “important” things to do have sprang up? If you are thinking any of this you are wrong, what is really happening is the original thought has turned into an idea. Why are you not able to tell the difference between an idea and your own original thought? At least until it is too late? It is simply that is you are not in full control of what your original thought is doing. The creation of that problem is you are unaware of you, yourself, the machine inside you.
This “machine” is the generator of all ideas and is created by your deprivation of real experience (nature), it is controlled by this system that destroys free will and it is one of the inner obstacles we talked about earlier. So when you have an original thought and overcome all the external forces that destroy free will this inner one can be there trying to block your original thought and it does this by turning it into an idea.
Say you are having trouble deciding if this process is happening or not, in this situation something is definitely wrong. There is a possibility that you are thinking about this, if that is the case then you must stop thinking a come to a conclusion then. If however it is different problem then what you must understand is that you generally should not have any inner confliction around you original thought. If you did then it would mean the thought is not what you think because only ideas have flaws an original thought should be beyond this.
Let us talk about will power on a small scale. Not everything you do involving will power is going to be a life dedication, there is a possibility that a little thing will come pop up. What then? Generally things like this happen in bursts, you learn about something and then you get propelled to action. Most of the time you are not in control of this on the level you think you are. If the thing whatever it may be requires little or no effort and the end results do not change anything very much, it means you are doing it to block your free time hence keeping yourself away from the real world.
Now let us talk about will power on a larger scale. When you do something that has an effect just not enough to radically change civilization, when you have a lifelong goal that requires no change to your life. How do these ones get created? In order to justify your life, your actions, status and so on you must have a fall back, something that is a defense mechanism. “I don’t have any free time because I need to go to a protest” “I am saving the rain forest because of the petition campaign I started” and so much more come from the ineffective goal you have created.
Is there a way to have some goal such as this that is not an excuse? As far as I know there is not. A middle sized goal like this does have the classification of a dedication. If however you pour massive amounts of your will and put huge amounts of creativity into what you are doing then it can turn into something of real will power.
What do you do if you are starting to suspect that your goal falls under the section of what we are talking about? You must ask “am I thinking?” “Are emotions present?” “Is this a true goal or just some sort of social issue” And most importantly ask “do I really want to do this?” If you do not enjoy the work you are doing it means that your system of pursuing your original thought is similar to the world civilization has created.
Work is one of the corner stones of society and civilization; this consuming, corrupting thing can stun then permanently disable will power if you let it. So if you have led a life in schools and job’s your reaction to these things will play out in what you create. Because work is horrible and you have surrounded yourself with it you will be unhappy.
Happiness goes under many different disguises and only one of them is real. There are things that stimulate, but stimulating things are never anything more than the mask of addiction, there are emotions such as excitement that create the illusion of happiness, and the list goes on. So an even more likely problem is that your job makes you feel good. How can you tell if this happens? You must know happiness hence be able to recognize if you are under the control of false happiness.
The problem is in order to be happy you cannot look for it. Looking for happiness is the reason most are discontented. The civilization most live in has created an idea that everyone is separated from and this idea is fake happiness. It is not real because it is only an idea. Real happiness is always present; unlocking it is a different matter. Don’t you see? When you look for happiness you are going further from the real one that is inside you in the false search of an idea.
So back to will power, we now know that happiness is always present so if we feel discontented it means there is something corrupted that needs to be stopped.
Now for will power on the big scale. A life’s work, something you spend hundreds of hours on, something of pure will, something that you don’t rationalize about, something that is not hope, fear, lust or any emotion, something that is not a thought like ideologies and political beliefs, in short something true.
You must re-read, I say big and that is very important. Why does will power need to be big to be true? That is just like saying no small thing is good. I will answer in two ways the first is by telling you what big means. There are big buildings that tower into the sky; there are big weapons such as fighter planes, there is a giant crowd that joins up to protest logging every now and then. They are all big because other things around them are small; there are small buildings, weapons and protests. Big is only big when there are small things to compare it to. There is no big or small it is just that the world try’s to fit things into controllable spaces. This is big that is long and so on.
You must have a big dedication because the other ones around you are small and the will power that society has created is small. There should be no question of whether or not the thing you are doing is right of wrong or big or small. The second you have doubt you need to lean towards the impossibly big, not the big that society has put into place.
The second reason is that will power in and of itself is a huge thing hence it must be accomplished by huge means. Will power is the huge urge inside every one of us that sometimes is getting blocked off by justifications or even by the smaller will powers we talked about earlier on. Small things are ok if they are used as a part of a bigger act of will power. You can organize a protest as long as it has a real use or is part of a greater whole. The only problem is when the action is alone were it is the only course of action, and then it will never accomplish the intended means.
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Now we are going to talk about two things, the first is perception and the second is realization. These things play a huge roll in will power so they are very important to talk about.
Perception is the ability to be a part of the present moment and the world is in a constant battle with it. In order to see the problems with the world you must have a good perception of what the world is, and in order to use tools to destroy the system we have in place you need a good perception of what your tools are. So as you can see, the world must not let its inhabitants perceive it in order to survive. So no one summons up will power because they think there is no need for it as they cannot see the problems with the world.
How can you gain a good perception or tell if it is being damaged? That depends on whether or not you have ever had a good perception of the moment. If you have truly lived in the present for some part of your life then it will be very easy to compare your two states of being. The problem is if you have not, then not only do you not know what you are going after (because you’ve never experienced it before) but there are no written up methods of finding out, reality is so amazing no number of words can describe it.
Exposure to nature is the key. As I have talked about before in my rant about national parks the world as a whole and on the individual level constantly trying to block off everyone’s connection to nature. It is a threat to our pacified and domesticated state of being. In order for you to develop a good perception you need to gain a strong connection to nature or at the very least something that is in constant change until you come to the realization that life is change. And that brings us to the topic which is realization.
Realization is the new experience of understanding, seeing and being what you have not yet understood seen or been. An example would be when you have a new idea that seems so perfect that you do not even bother to question it. Or when you have penetrated into a new part of what you are then see that there is more to you than you have thought. A realization has two sides to it, the first is where it is out of your control and you are its tool. The other is when you are aware of every part of it and know it so well that you will not let it get out of hand.
In the first situation where it is out of your control and you are used as its tool. What are you supposed to do? Realization can use you as a tool because in this day and age people have become dependent on ideas as a thought is in the mind not in reality. Reality has a strong connection to nature, change and life which are all things that we must be kept separate from in order the world to keep going on the same path. (Greed filled and based on consumption) So in order to free yourself from a realization you must free your mind of ideas and thinking.
The next situation is where you are aware of every part of the realization and know it so well that you will not let it get out of hand. How does this happen? If you were to live in a state of meditation then you would be aware of all the factors of your life including the realizations you’d have. So then with your sensitivity to your body and levels of awareness you’d be able to feel an idea and the pain of an idea. And shut the idea down. If you are really good at this then the idea will not come up in the first place. The real trick is getting into a true state of meditation and understanding the realization you have had. Only you truly know what your realization is because only you know the weaknesses you have and how it uses them to take advantage of you. There are however a few tips that may help.
The first is something that you need to understand. When I say that a realization or something like that is taking control I am not implying that it has a conscious awareness. What I mean is your conscious awareness is allowing that to take control because it is dependent on them. This dependency is caused by the present flawed human perception where our awareness is asserting itself above the earth and reality. The next tip is no matter what learning is one of the more useful tools at your disposal the more information that you have the better. Just remember that everyone is ready for every truth, every action and every thing right here right now. And the last tip is that true action purifies people from thinking, a common weakness. Action is like not thinking. An example of this is when you are really reading this paper out of your own free will and in times of peace. Your mind is not in the past or the future, it is not pondering on useless things. What it it’s doing is reading and that is an action. So a question you might want to ask as opposed to “how do I stop my weaknesses?” is “how do I act?”
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