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RE: The Tasteliciousness of Freedom
What a delight to find one of your recordings here. I will not listen until bedtime. Since listening to your last recording I have been listening to Youtube videos before sleep. It's always history, about various places in the world. So far I've gone to Norway, Russia, Germany, Cambodia, Shanghai, Belgium...This recording will be a welcome change.
I enjoyed your essay, about freedom, children and parents. It's interesting that you had so much freedom. Somehow, that makes sense from what I know about you. You very much own your life.
I'll see you later, at bedtime :)
Ah ... that is something familiar to me. I do and did this often, too. When I first dealt with just audio, I was kind of bored not to have delivered pictures but once I got used to it, it gave a certain relief not always to have to watch something. But to be carried by a voice.
I also like to hear about customs and culture from foreign countries. Sometimes we forget how much abundance is out there.
Yes, at least I try to own my life and, at the same time, refrain from wanting to control the lives of others.
Sometimes I got confronted cause people felt disturbed by my free mind but when I stay calm about it that ain't a problem. Your spirit shows freedom, too. Would you be able to name the causes?
Enjoy the recording:)
Thank you for a good night's sleep. What a relaxing, enjoyable tape. As you roamed freely on the subject of freedom, you drew me in. So many thoughts went through my head, and then I fell asleep--to pleasant dreams.
I finished listening this morning and once again began to reflect on my life and experience as you went through yours. This was almost like a meditation for me.
Shall I share some of what you dredged up? It seems all my life I had responsibility. In my childhood there were difficult circumstances. By the time I was 23 I was supporting my mother and helping to support one of my sisters. She had supported me for years. So we didn't have a typical family situation (for the U. S., anyway). I guess this sense of responsibility gave me a kind of freedom to be myself because--what was my choice? I didn't follow the way of most young people. I made my own way.
I loved the discourse on your family, on the natural evolution of roles and on your acceptance of the evolution that time brings. Yes, the tyranny of youth, or age. Or race or gender. We have to just be ourselves, and not be ruled by these perceptions.
I hope you make more tapes!
I feel happy being told to be of service for a good nights sleep to you. It was said that I talk too slow but as that is subjective, I don't care:) I got so used to slow talking voices that I feel irritated to listen to fast talkers.
You took on early on responsibility but obviously not too soon as it shows to me. To maintain your freedom while fulfilling several duties was not easy, though, I guess. Not having a choice is actually not to the worst. Accepting that there are still other choices in life and not feeling as a victim to take on what cannot be chosen, is a helper for maturation, I find.
Family constellation and the order of the position one takes up is indeed interesting. I was the youngest and what I found out is that I cannot raise my son in the same spirit I was raised. The circumstances and the order demand it to be different. Took a while to realize that.
Giving back to your sister what you received can be a lifetime task - I saw siblings who "finished" this process and were becoming content. Mostly, in older ages.
There is nothing really typical for family constellations ... if ever was ... families are so rich in variation, no?
Yes, I plan on further tapes, really like doing that.
P.S. As I slept little hours last night, I decided on taking a nap this afternoon. Oh, what a strange dream I had. Huge bluish white octopuses chased me on the streets and snaked their arms around me and I felt sucked into the slippery depths of their extremities. It was frightening and fascinating at the same time. Before, or after this scene, I don't know, I climbed a red brick old house at dizzying heights where I stood on draughty abysses and wondered how I would ever get down again. ..... came totally out of the blue.
It sounds so surrealistic, your dream. If you were inclined to paint--what an image that would make.
Yes, more tapes. And I think I'll look up those monks. Sleep is good, and not always easy to come by for me.
I think we have both found peace in our lives, through different paths.