The document discusses the meaning of the term "boots on the ground" and applying focus and intention to excel at something. It says "boots on the ground" refers to dedicating oneself fully to a purpose or task. It suggests focusing on the things you are naturally best at. The next paragraph discusses love and relationships, saying love can be a "battlefield" if the wrong person is chosen or the person themselves is "wrong." It likens being in a bad relationship to being a "pitcher" getting "wrecked." The final paragraph discusses rising above broken connections through paying attention, using meditation and mindfulness to lift the love to "higher places." It encourages letting go of fears of

1. Boots on the Ground
November 1, 2020
Everyone is really good at a few things, and better than most
sometimes by a lot. All of us are not good at most things, and we
need to acknowledge that and soften the ego. The list of what
I’m not good at would take a few books to list. Take a look at
what you are likely better at than almost anyone, surely there are
things! I’m in an elite category in 3 or 4 things especially - playing
backgammon, public free speech, relationships as a spiritual
journey, me ….and I’ll stop there.
So … ‘boots on the ground’ is a military term for ‘slugging it out’ in the thick of conflict. Used in
a non military way, it’s a dedication to a purpose with acute attention and intention to be the
best or among the best at what ever it is you are doing. Could be anything from cooking to
intellect quotient to being lazy to sports to fixing things to ‘you name it’ and you could be at the
top of the pyramid. Always focus on the positive things you are best at, or desire to.
Love is a battle field If you pick the wrong one to love, or just maybe YOU
have been the wrong one? If you’re waiting for love, you’re not going to
get very far. The only thing permanent is change. If love is a ‘battle field’,
it’s because with you’re falling into love and end up getting wrecked in the
fall, and the culprit is both of you, the other, or just you. In any case,
whether the pitcher hits the rock or the rock hits the pitcher, it’s going to
be bad for the pitcher. And, you’re the pitcher!
New love can be an ‘airhead’ trip where the
heart takes over the mind in what’s a Wall St.
term, ‘a friendly takeover’ where the details of
each others past becomes put in the closet ’til
the unresolved issues open the closet door and
expose themselves. Then, the boots of love are
on the ground probably for the length of the connection, unless ways
are used (meditation and mindfulness) and are deployed to ‘rise the
love to the ethers’ that are there waiting for ‘dual’ action. Everything
worthwhile needs the appropriate sensitivity and care to grow and
maintain it’s ultimate position.
Life need not be picking up the crumbs of a broken connection with yourself and/or another,
when paying attention with discernment, the ladder to nirvana is waiting lonely within. Let go of
any ‘philophobia’s’ or the condition where a person fears the idea of ‘letting go’ and merging
with the fullness of love. Submit to it, and then if real and vulnerable, the surrender comes in
silently in the form of divine and limitless love.
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Arhata~