Permanent Education

It is interesting that we never know exactly how things that are seemingly 'bad' will turn out.
Looking back at the short history of an individual life there are moments of failure and disaster that gave us an opportunity to find something very satisfactory.
This is the paradox.
Most peace movements have been initiated because of wars!
Life is simultaneously war on many levels, and that is what creates peace, temporarily.
Individual, conjugal, familiar, community, national, international or indeed global wars can all be reasonably used to find more peaceful solutions:
In the Coherent Paradox the dynamic energetics of efficiency demonstrate that habitually taking the easy path actually leads to more difficulties, whilst habitually confronting the more difficult path leads to solutions.
Immunity, capacity and resilience become internalised, so that when the unexpected occurs we can rely on our instinctive capacity.

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Previous blogs:
1:1 Things Happen
1:2 A disaster is an opportunity
1:3 A problem is a solution is a problem

One of the most useful educations is respect for our own mortality. Whoever we think we are, - death is on the way; in the mean time life does go on! Some people practice dying before they go to sleep. How does it feel? Should I say those words, meet that person or do that thing? If you are ready to die you are ready to live

Just like nature we are in cycles of construction, deconstruction and reconstruction. Things happening all the time.

Everybody loves problems, ( as long as there is hope they can solve them! ) We have an innate curiosity to understand, to make sense of the world around us. Just look at the way a child learns to listen and speak, learns language. No formal 'teacher' to get in the way.

What we don't love so much is problems that we can't find a solution for, and then what do we do?

Going round in circles is quite popular, and I don't mean going round in cycles, they have a much more useful ebb and flow.
Another solution to unsolved problems is to store them up, to accumulate them. This is not so sustaining. indeed positively weakening to the spirit.

Training, training and more training, self training that is!

It's the same with doubts. What to do? How can we use them? Use them and lose them, find something to do with them, apply them, or hide them and stagnate!

From the beginingless beginning to the endless end we will always have problems, difficulties, challenges, they will not always be the ones we consciously choose. Why not find enthusiasm for these free 'teachers'? They don't not send you a bill!

Your contribution is welcome at info@permanenteducation.co.uk

Previous blogs:
1:1 Things Happen
1:2 A disaster is an opportunity

This seems hard to understand, especially when we feel hurt or let down, betrayed or beaten, depressed or disappointed - ...............

There are many ways to look at things. Why not an optimistic disaster, or indeed a pessimistic opportunity - it's all possible!

Everything is useful, for those who know how to use it. Everything has a use, why are we so quick to dismiss what we don't like, what we don't want? There is no point because it just happened, better to use it, to learn.

Education has been inverted. We are predominately 'taught', we are 'apparently' prepared for life; but it is not a preparation for life because the status quo will change. A key to a more satisfactory existence, where if there is any necessity to kill each other at least we could reduce the unnecessary killing, is self-education, to have the inner capability to instinctively respond in a more useful way.

But no, logic has become the god! Logic - what logic?

One of the reasons that governments make so many mistakes and don't learn from them is because all the decision makers are trained/conditioned to make the 'right' decisions, ( even if obsessively 'economic' ) they are not trained to immediately react to the results, to what actually happens.

Your contribution is welcome at info@permanenteducation.co.uk

Previous blogs:
1:1 Things Happen

We can all confirm that things happen and in that very moment they become something else; as the saying goes 'time and tide wait for no-one'.

When our perception is tuned in then very often we can see things coming, in fact we can prevent them happening. Very often this perception is restricted to other people's problems, ( rather than our own ) and much as we may give advice, the disaster happens!

But don't worry! The disaster can be the opportunity too.

In what ever way, at whatever time, and for whatever 'reason' things happen; when for example we get ill or we feel disappointed, then there is a tendency for those of us living a 'comfortable lifestyle' to lose the distinction between necessity and desire.

We like 'nice'.

We get 'trouble!'.

If every moment is not predetermined by genetics, god, past lives or whatever, then what?

If self-correction is a reality, then as far as self-learning is concerned can we use opportunity or disaster? Both of course, but which is the most available? Which has a greater chance of a minimum effort for a maximum result?

We have been so over-trained to work hard for what is 'good', that when 'bad' occurs we think it is 'unfair'. How ridiculous!

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