VIDEO POST: Fred Davis & John Ames, Interview #3 (66M)

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1. Mike
   June 27, 2015 @ 9:00 pm

   Thanks guys. love you and loved the video. Loved John’s elaboration of Fred’s groceries story, especially the laundry hamper now left in the way and now kicked. Love your full-bodied “punctuation” marks Fred, especially the exclamation of the desire to, dammit!, not want to desire.

   Shoulding that I shouldn’t be shoulding is no laughing matter … until I watch a video like this and write those words! Then I can laugh with a laugh that feels like it’s in harmony with Fred’s full-bodied laughs. A saving grace for me is also to think in terms of music or surfing. There’s a melody going on, and while I suffer offer what I judge as a missed note, guess what … I’m missing the next note, and the next, … until I surrender to the music going on right now. Loved Fred’s recent comment that when i surrender to What Is, What Is seems to surrender.

   And just like the music, I can get mad at the part of surfing that is “falling off”. I love the water and swimming anyway, so how is that not part of the surfing. Like Fred’s dog not just chasing its tale but eating it, what kind of surfing would hate falling off – when that’s Part Of riding those waves.

   A difference is being in “real” time. There’s no music or surfing while I’m still thinking About it, and then should not’ing the thinking, and then should not’ing the shoud-not’ing.

   Trying to surf with the senses of disappointment through depression being in the wake, instead of staying immersed in them, is an interesting “ride”. And I guess it’s the same whether it’s the grand sense of them, or the “little” irritations such as forgetting the groceries. There oneness helps me … well, deal with just one thing – instead of imagining them to be an unending litany of different tails!

   It does seem like there’s a nicer experience when I remember to insert the idea that I’m one with whatever I’ve just had the irritation with. It’s so funny though, that even that is actually my projecting What Is is Surrendering, when it is just “me” being What Is!

   Thanks guys for helping me to surf and to sing!

   • Fred Davis
     June 28, 2015 @ 12:39 am

     Thank you, Mike. This is a great comment. 🙂