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{"id":491,"date":"2014-08-05T18:54:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T00:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/?page_id=491"},"modified":"2016-05-25T12:14:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T18:14:13","slug":"dog-doo-mental-contractions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/dog-doo-mental-contractions\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog-Doo, Mental Contractions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dog-Doo<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A time comes eventually, after thinking things through to a point of clarity, that everything begins to be experienced as OK \u2013 just as it is. \u00a0Everything is pure already. There is nothing actually wrong with anything, even say, a pile of dog-doo. \u00a0 As it is, it is perfect dog-doo; \u00a0couldn\u2019t be more perfect, actually as what it really is is a result of previous structures of causation, a perfect product created by a series of prior conditions stretching back into the primordial mists of time. There is no necessity to have preference or prejudice, love or hate toward the pile. \u00a0 It is only what it is and nothing more. \u00a0No need to superimpose a label onto it. \u00a0 Even though it may appear to be disgustingly reprehensible to a human being, it is just lovely to a fly. \u00a0 It all depends on what the mind superimposes on the pile; then comes the preference or prejudice.<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Mental contractions (mind) are superficial fabrications, so we don\u2019t allow ourselves to get absorbed \u00a0in \u00a0the \u00a0delusion of them; \u00a0 we \u00a0just \u00a0stay \u00a0clearly \u00a0stable \u00a0in \u00a0the state of unfabricated, non-superimposing awareness. \u00a0 This is a spontaneous continuity of presence, not allowing habitual formats of past thinking to cloud perception. \u00a0 Freedom from the influences of mental structures is the freeing of bound attention, the de-programming of constricting mind-habits. This is the entry into the real heart of existence, the heart of Being, into the ever-free, ever-awakened pure gnosis. Lack of understanding this is the only real defilement to be overcome. \u00a0And yet, even defilements do not have to be overcome or purified, for they are already perfect defilements. The only thing needed is to just learn how to step back and look at how things really are. \u00a0This is seeing with a clear eye.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By S. R. Allen \u00a0 \u00a9 2014<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSCI0383-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-472\" src=\"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSCI0383-2.jpg\" alt=\"Mental\" width=\"640\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSCI0383-2.jpg 640w, http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSCI0383-2-150x125.jpg 150w, http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSCI0383-2-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSCI0849.2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-918\" src=\"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSCI0849.2.jpg\" alt=\"mental\" width=\"1146\" height=\"862\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSCI0849.2.jpg 1146w, http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSCI0849.2-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSCI0849.2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSCI0849.2-1024x770.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1146px) 100vw, 1146px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dog-Doo \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A time comes eventually, after thinking things through to a point of clarity, that everything begins to be experienced as OK \u2013 just as it is. \u00a0Everything is pure already. There is nothing actually wrong with anything, even say, a pile of dog-doo. \u00a0 As it is, it is perfect dog-doo; \u00a0couldn\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/dog-doo-mental-contractions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dog-Doo, Mental Contractions<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":920,"parent":0,"menu_order":53,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-491","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2351,"href":"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/491\/revisions\/2351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}