Source 1  Foundational Wisdom

•   Dependencies

.».  Opening
     Will you see breath, water, food, shelter, love (the first four are typically categorized as your “basic needs”) as dependencies towards evolving.  How does this view of life change your day to day?  Beyond need how do you embrace breath, water, food, shelter when seeing them as tools (mechanism’s) of the Universe towards evolving? Love is different, seen more as the foundation for your dependencies yet a dependency.
       When without any of these first four likely you see the motivation to change (your situation).  Yet at times we are distracted and we forget, forget to breathe, forget to drink, forget life essentially.  This is the opposite (path) of evolving.  Proactively will you see how excelling at these four accelerates your evolving. Evolving extends beyond these dependencies, yet they are at the foundation of all your relationships (including your relationship with evolving).  Dependencies are the mechanisms of the Universe towards evolving.

.».  To Practice
» Proactively will you see how excelling at these four dependencies (breath, water, food and shelter) accelerates your evolving.
       Will you contemplate how?  What does it look like to excel at these dependencies?
       Note:  I’ll tell you my take on it is not “to own three houses all paid for” as the answer to shelter.
       As a first step you might buy a few gallons of water, freeze dried food and an emergency blanket that you place in a closet or granola bars for your backpack.  All good ideas though more precautionary than evolving.   See there is a deeper place to be.  These changes are meant to change your life…
       Pause for a moment, big deep breath, smile… did you just figure breath out?  The first step is to realize you have a relationship with your dependencies then to nurture and on to flourish.  This is how the dependencies push you into consciousness.  For example with shelter the dependencies bring to your awareness your life and presence when you notice your surroundings.  Sometimes you notice this is not how you would like to live, other times it’s confirmation (in a sense) that you are where you like to be.

» When was the last time you closed your eyes while taking a sip of water, feeling the water all the way from lips to body?
       It’s hard (initially) to notice the water in your body.  First you may feel the temperature then on to full in your stomach.  Beyond these two you are to feel the dependencies in your body (built in mechanism).
       Note:  While reading this Topic one day I deiced to try feeling a sip of coffee into my body.  As I raised the mug to my lips I only then noticed I was still chewing the bite of toast in my mouth and to pause first.  Almost like to recognize “oh yeah I’m still eating”.  In chewing that bite of food while pausing I noticed my surroundings more vividly.  My home essentially and how nice the moment is (was).
       The mechanisms are so simple.  Sometimes with our advanced intellect we struggle to recognize them until we are struggling with (through) them.  Do you see how it’s choice (S5. Choice)?  Recognize the mechanism here now away from the problem (struggle, S1. Awareness) choose to act and you have (are) evolved.  Sometimes a first step is to be grateful (S9. Gratitude) for now, your current situation.  Inspiration (S5. Inspiration) for change flows (more) easily in gratitude (rather than need).
       Note:  When you wash your hands do you even feel the water?  Will you pause for a moment and notice if you do/don’t?  Are you already on to the next thing?
       The point of this Practice is for you to embrace evolving, how you do this is up to you.  How far would you like to go with your evolving and what are you willing to do, be in this lifetime?

.».  Expressions
Need:
» Needing these dependencies is the base human existence.
       Evolving beyond need (needing them) is your freedom (S10. Freedom).  Release the fear associated with need and the dependencies become gifts, luxuries, joy (beauty) on to love (your highest dependency).
       Note:  This does not mean you do nothing and just “hope it will work out”.  You play a part in your life, a big part… find the balance.
» Dependencies: we are dependent on them to live?
       + No, we (you) are dependent on them to evolve.
       To evolve beyond being dependent (need).
       Note:  Literally someone might think I will not have to breath anymore?  Evolved you will (still) breath now from the place of gift (of life) rather than the need to survive.  The releasing of the burden.
» Dependencies are the evolving from surviving to realizing the gift of this life.
      This realization is (the) evolving.  Notice when life gets difficult combined with the shortening or holding of breath, this is the mode of living to evolve beyond.  Realize (the) evolving and the path to receiving (evolving is the path to receiving).
       Note:  It’s easy to see how we have evolved beyond Humans 1000’s of years ago.  Yet sitting there at your desk banging away on your keyboard (half eaten banana beside you) holding your breath tight (as you are overly focused or stressed).  How far have we really come when we are failing at this base dependency of breath?
» When you look at dependency as a definition the intension suggests a negative relationship from the view of the dependent.  
       You may wonder how do I evolve beyond breath?  Through not needing or taking for granted breath and rather breathing to live (for you).  This is your freedom from solely living as form dependent on need.  We are capable of evolving beyond dependencies.
       Breathing to live (for you) connects with (E1. You and Your Life):
              Meditate for you (me)       
              Pray for you (me)
              Receive for you (me)
              Support for you (me)
              Connection for you (me)
              Rest for you (me).
                     Read this as rest for me, hear it to you as connection for you.
       Note:  As an analogy will you see the similarity of evolving beyond dependencies to someone living paycheck to paycheck who then transforms their life through building a savings account.  It’s like a long exhale of relief, knowing they have some cushion, some space (S11. Space).  They have grown (evolved) beyond solely needing (dependent on) that next check, that next breath.  Rather than arduous life becomes joy (E3. Joy).
       Note:  A realization I came to was how much time I’ve spent contemplating (living) philosophy, life.  Wasted time to some minds, a gift to me.  I could not look at philosophy without some direction towards living past dependencies.  What realizations have you incurred and how have they taken you past dependent?

Mechanism:
» Dependencies are the basic mechanism of the Universe to evolve, to bring about evolving.
       Through realizing your dependencies (breath, water, food, shelter, love) you realize your base path to evolving.  You can leverage your understanding of these dependencies to evolve, a semi proactive approach to evolution.
» Shelter is meant to support you.
       When that’s not the case look to your dependencies, how they are pushing you to a greater life.  At times you might like to consider your body as part of your shelter.  Shelter also carries the connotation of the word beyond a structure.  Shelter you from: harm, nonsense, noise, the chaos of humanity.  Something you read and then act on can aide to shelter you as well.  This idea brings in the support element of shelter.
» Breath, water, food and shelter are about the life you carry around with you.
       Your interacting with your external environment and how they create your life (S5. Action).  You interacting with your dependencies.

Love:
» Love is a dependency to evolve, change, grow.
       Including loving your body, loving time.  Essentially loving your (encompassing) self.
» Love as a dependency too is a realization to make and evolve through.
       Note:  Have you known someone who found love once they stopped chasing, stopped fighting it through realizing their worth…
» You are to evolve beyond your (basic) needs for your reason to live.
       Then you want to live.  Beyond work why get up in the morning?  Is love a factor in your deciding to get out of bed?  Imagine it (love) is, then how does your life proceed?
       Note:  Maybe you will smile back, be nice to that person who is struggling (even though they are mean).
       Not chasing love rather open to space for love (S10. Need to Service).  
» Through evolving we open the space for love.
       Living stepping from dependency to dependency (each moment) the focus is on our basic needs (dependencies).  Evolving beyond these needs is where we open the space, find love.

The Body:
» You may have already made the connection of the body to dependencies, the interconnectedness.
       First the body to water, food, shelter and onto the soul to breath, love.  Breath transcends here (body) and there (soul).  Love brings it all together, love bridges (practical, Spiritual).

Presence:
» Dependencies are a constant ebb and flow.
       How you handle the ebb (and flow) is the evolving.  Will it be growth/integrate or challenge/lesson?  Gratitude (and on to joy) is the path out of dependencies.
       The first example below expands on this Expression.
» Presence through your dependencies.
       The greatest realization in worrying and problems with your own situation (like housing) is noticing how little you are concerned with others and their situations (like not judging them).  
       Now you see it is possible for you to live beyond unwanted thoughts.  You have it in you.  This realization is evolving through your dependencies (in a positive way).  Possibly as you shift your focus more towards moving forward your own life you will experience less issues around your dependencies (and be less agitated by them, S2. Them)?
       Note:  Pain (even discomfort) have a similar effect as a situation with dependencies to focus you beyond thoughts.
» Sometimes the dependencies are the reminder of the moment, of presence.
       This can be a positive (great moment) or a negative (pain moment) that captures your breath and momentarily stops it to focus you inward.  See how this is different than holding your breath tight (pain moment) contracted.  When contracted you usually are unaware of the moment and solely focused (S5. Focused) on the task in front of you.  Now you see an example of two different types of breath (there are more) and how they affect your life.

Beyond dependencies:
» Realize the journey from dependency to resource.
       This is a form of support (S3. Support Next Steps).
» What is beyond dependencies…
       The evolved Being.  I don’t need it, it’s simply there for me and appreciated (grateful).  
       With need there is fear (usually of loss or lack).
       Evolving beyond need is a kind of security:
              There is a problem.  
              + It (solution) will come.
              There is a problem.  
              Ok, I have work to do from a place of connection (rather than need, fear).
» Shelter is the life you carry around with you… always.
       Connection (S6. Relationships) becomes the evolved mode of shelter, helping you to be (feel) safe through life.  The internal feeling promoting external life (living) with protection through the chaos (of the current system of human beings).  Freeing you of the mechanisms (of the Universe) is shelter too and a lifestyle (S5. Lifestyle) to live.
       Note:  There is no guarantee in life.  Connection helps rather than guarantees.
              Shelter as an idea (S11. The Idea):  A place to prepare, a place to relax (and be).  A place to stir emotion and imagination.  A place that is home yet is of me.  A place to embrace the sounds (of life) rather than the percussion of noise (filtering out the noises of life), quiet from the noise of my mind.  A place to leave (and come back to).  A place to call home with the word flowing off my lips through a smile.
              This feeling embraces an idea of shelter beyond dependency.  The body becomes part of your idea of shelter as you realize your essence (S7. Essence)… shelter for your being.
       Note:  I longed for a home until I realized I was looking for a lifestyle.  A place to enjoy living in while realizing how I am in this place.
» Breath opens up the doorway (connection).
       Focus (on) your breath, allow the connection.

.».  Examples
       The intention isn’t to get the “thing” and say you have evolved.  There was this family who had a large home, great neighborhood the whole package.  Were they thriving, evolving through this dependency of shelter?  They realized this wasn’t for them, sold their home and vehicles and bought a Sailboat.  Now the Boat is the medium they are evolving (or not evolving) through around part of their shelter dependencies.  The common denominator is them, not the house or boat.  Our dependencies are about us evolving through the places and things that are in or not in our lives.  We don’t have it so we strive to bring it in, we get it we want something else or work to figure out how to keep it (plus a myriad of other options) and the journey continues.  The idea is let go of need and you will evolve (more) gently through your dependencies.

Someone may own multiple houses yet out on a hike above tree line with very little shelter during a storm sheds light on their evolving.  The idea that “yes we have finally made it” (with all those houses) will constantly be challenged as long as you embrace the idea “we finally made it”.  At 12’000 feet in the rain your idea of shelter changes.  You see it in some how they appreciate (S9. Gratitude) all of it.  Relaxed at home smiling, feeling the rain on their skin out in life, smiling.  It’s the moment not the thing that defines their life (evolving).  The thing can add to the moment, is part of the moment yet it’s the moment, noticing the moment (S9. Noticing Moments) that is the presence, is the evolving, is the life.

       You pick up the dishes from the table and place them in the sink.  Rinse and you are on your way out the door.  Do you notice the sink, the countertops, are you happy with your kitchen?  If the faucet were to malfunction you would surely notice possibly blame as you are now running late for work.  Will you notice your life beyond the problems possibly how much you love your environment and when not allowing the impetus to drive change.  Shelter can drive awareness, this is evolving.  This noticing enhances feeling (S4. Feeling) life beyond pain.

       Imagine you don’t like where you live.  There is drama with others, possibly the location, the cost, there can be lots of reasons.  Is it simply that the people causing the problems are mean or that they are pushing you to a greater life…  What is beyond those reasons (S1. Beyond Reason)?  Evolving.  From this example you see Shelter is playing a part to move your life forward.  You can stay there and be unhappy you can do something about it…  the doing something about it is your evolving through your dependencies.
       Note:  If they weren’t mean, if the costs were reasonable would you (without awareness of it) continue living an uninspired mediocre life?  Sometimes the struggle is not there (initially) and that’s when a process like this one can help, bringing to your awareness to move your life forward (defining success, S1. Success).

       I would like to workout at 3 yet I’m hungry.  I have to eat first then let it digest and on to my workout.  Some sort of basic planning is required here.  Do you mess this up constantly?  Rather than “why do I always do this” possibly embrace the idea of these situations being mechanisms (opportunities) to evolve.

       Recalling when I was a Project Manager during my professional career banging out emails trying to get out of the office for the day.  I would become so focused that I’d be holding my breath tight, barely breathing enough to function.  When it’s 4:30, you have an hours worth of emails and 5:00 plans the call (probably from the ego) is to rush which typically leads to contraction (in the body and breath).  The application of the dependencies are always there, it’s in how we apply them how we evolve.

.».  Summary
       I can’t help but wonder about Jesus in the desert for 40 days (and nights) without basic needs.  When I imagine Jesus in the desert I find motivation to look at my own life and shift my focus to evolving beyond needing.  My problems seem almost silly yet they are there, they have effected me.  My focus shifts to how to move forward, to evolving.  I feel something (there is a feeling inside), perhaps this is the gift of that prior temptation?
       We look at additional references to Jesus in compassion (S3. Compassion).

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