Honesty, Love, and Other Variations of Definition In Modern Society

In modern society it seems a lot of words or concepts have had a change of definition. These vary from words/concepts such as: Honesty, Friendship, Love, Happiness and many others. Unfortunately for the few of us who still try to adhere to the "old" way of thinking it can cause conflicting signals within out minds and result in a irrational thinking.

Love is probably the broadest statement any one person can make, now aside from my previous discussions on the topic of Love lets try and find the modern day definition of "relationship love". Relationship love seems to be a very two way thing, when both parties are exchanging a said "love currency" (hugs, sex, money, cuddles, affection etc) it appears that both parties seem to be content for a certain period of time but of course this is a very materialistic viewpoint. Unfortunately the downside here is that one person eventually gets frustrated or tries to leave.

Unfortunately when a person tries to disconnect themselves there doesn't seem to be any slack given to the "mistake maker", it seems to be a simple case of move on and forget the other person even existed. This is somewhat unfortunate as "real Love" is a currency that seems to be lost in a world where everything but materialism is futile.

A lot of people have their own personal demons, these can affect their Friendships, Loves, Happiness and a lot of other things in their life. I think it really is time for the world to wake up and say "you matter as well and I understand your not perfect" remember we all have our own flaws too, forgiveness is a great gift.

-Ant

Now Is a Good Time

Now is a great moment to live in. When we see the past as an important aspect of our being we fail to see the beauty of this moment. It deminishes our ability to appreciate the beauty in life and the positive aspects of those around us. This is also relevant to thoughts pertaining to the future.

Many people, myself included strive to be something tomorrow or remember how we blundered yesterday and let it affect our mind and mental wellbeing. Unfortunately the mind is like a child, it needs to be taught how to sit still.

With the childlike mind we find ourselves competing with our own thoughts or character. You may have trouble admitting your wrong, finding yourself in an argument and getting frustrated, getting irritated with someone and dwelling it for minutes hours days or even years. We need to let go of our ego, we need to appreciate on the things now and find joy in our everday being.

Try to let go of the past, its not something that you have control over, you can't change it but simply look for the good or the lessons that can be learned from it, allowing concious decions to be made. Try not to think too far ahead for it will leaving you wishing you were already there. Drift to far back or forward and you may find yourself stuck in the sand of samsara.

Remember:

"There is never nothing happening" - The Peaceful Warrior

Musical Resources

Hey all, thought I might post some resources that every music enthusiast(mostly electronic music) needs to know about.

General:
Last.FM -  Track you played tracks, creates charts based on what you play and recommends music
Trance.nu - Fantastic trance forum

Production:
FutureProducers.com - Music production forum
Alex's FL Studio Trance Tutorial 1 2 -Basic Trance production tutorial for the newbie
Tutorial master list @ tranceaddict.com

DJing:
DJTutor - The best free resource for learning to DJ

The Best Feeling..

Your lying there bored out of your brains, you look to the turntables on the desk not knowing whether you can be bothered. Although you feel very lethargic you manage to walk up stand behind them and push power on the 3 components. Sitting there with the flashing lights the groovy slipmats, amd the funky sliders you cue up one of your favourite tracks.... The music plays, you get the feel for the music throw in some FX, it comes to you.. you cue the next track get it beatmatched.. 1234.. there's the cue for the transition, you move the slider the mix is going well all of a sudden BAM!!!!! your in the mix your on top of the world, what could be better than the feeling of doing what you love most? After playing several tracks your finished and your feeling so much more accomplished to what you where 30minutes ago... You didn't regret it.. You just did it!

The Future of Mankind

With the interest in TU24 which is scheduled to make a close pass or an impact on earth on the 29th I would like to take the chance to discuss the future of mankind. In the case that some catastrophic incident occurred here on earth what would the consequences be?

A mass decrease in the population could ultimately result in unity of mankind, death could be turned into a positive. Without government to control the world would we strive towards a better future?

Religion holds many of the answers about life buried within its cryptic or philosophical texts, the point of existence is in my opinion to be able to release animalistic instincts and to Love fully without limitations, to get along with each other. With a society so driven by greed and need we seem to forget that we are all the same, that we all have the same root cause, either you perceive that root cause as nothing, the mind or something else, it ultimately still comes about from the same root element.

Why do we find it so necessary to compete with others, to fall into this matrix of cyclic existence, what do we actually do with our lives if anything at all? Why do we aspire to be more when we have everything and nothing just in the same?

In it's current state the human race is headed for disaster whether it be natural or man made, unless the greater populations steps up and realizes its potential as a race able to release its primal instincts a horrible future awaits us. Moving towards a greater future where we do not let governments and corporations control our free will, where we can work towards betterment of ourselves instead of our wallets, when will we instigate this simple foundation for life?