Continued from earlier this morning...
The “Jedi stuff”. I like this term because it is an easy half joking way ease into the following realm of knowledge. To get to my point of luck I need to provide some basic knowledges. And yes this gets a bit "heady".
Basic Knowledges:
There are two types of karma, seen and unseen. Unseen is 70%ish of what we experience. What gender you were born, good looking, ugly, smart, dumb, in a wealthy part of the world or poor, being 18 years old at the start of WWII or not, etc. You basically have no choice and can do nothing about unseen karma. Seen karma (about 30% of life) is mostly what we can deal with and my favorite example is you hear the big-rig horn, look at it, and jump out of the way. Many situations have almost no karmic baring on us. You see a bird fly by or see 10 Ferrari's drive down the road. That's it, no other interaction, no karmic involvement.
It's difficult to understand, but at this very moment we have music, knowledge, video, etc, zooming around us, through us, and with the correct device we can receive those things and even influence and change them. It's called wireless technology.
Now the hard thing to understand. Suppose our human bodies don't generate consciousness but receive consciousness? Much like a cell phone. Only your cell receives your calls and does not receive other calls...Suppose your consciousness can sense others consciousness, just a basic sense that it is there (like blue tooth)? Suppose your consciousness can influence someone elses consciousness (like blue tooth asking if you want to connect)? This influence might just put the other person/animal on a slightly elevated state of awareness for just a moment – that moment all we need to change the course of events. For example, ever sat across the room and stared at the back of someones head and after a few seconds go by the swing around to look directly at you? (Fun thing to try). We all do this “sensing” and “influencing” already. When you are aware of when it happens the “rules of the game are modified” but you don't really do anything, and that is the whole trick.
My point about luck:
Now, how does this consciousness sensing relate to luck (and yes it's slightly convoluted) and what do we do with it.
Luck is simply a slight change in a situation. Good luck is being handed a 100 pound rock of gold. Bad luck is having that same rock dropped on your head.
The dark Jedi knowledge about motorcycling is having “good luck” to ACTUALLY EXPERIENCE “close calls”, and not crash. This “good luck” of “close calls” prepares you for those “really close calls”. Those past “close calls” have provided you the time to develop situational awareness, develop knowledge of what skills to us with what situations, and provided you with the time to practice those skills.
Like many have said, avoidance of potential situations is most important. Avoidance starts with awareness of the situation and knowledge of what to do and practice of it's implementation.
Protection is also important. You avoid a situation but are now riding over gravel and drop the motorcycle. Your leathers just help. Your helmet helps if you hit hard. Your back protect helps if you have bad luck and have the motorcycle bounce on top of you.
Good luck is not being presented with a situation in the first place. Can it be achieved and how is this achieved? It all starts before you even get on the motorcycle. Choosing the road, day, time, and protection gear, before you even start the motorcycle complemented with reading, practicing skills, etc.. The you can ad yet another layer to avoid situations by giving a moments thought to your own consciousness. This can make you aware of other consciousnesses nearby and not just humans (i.e. animals particularly deer and turkeys). Those others might have a slight increase in their own awareness helping them to be aware of you and avoid you. I've seen this on group ride videos where just before an accident occurs there is a slight decrease in speed before any visible dangers are seen. We all do this naturally. A simple way to achieve this is when you notice yourself flinch, change speed, have a “gut feeling” and you don't see anything, that is when you need to purposefully slow, increase your awareness, and change position; about 40% of the time you will come across some yet to be seen danger. So the practice of this is simply body awareness, not necessarily meditation or “psychic” training. Just be aware of your body.
On a more advanced level; This awareness can be progressed on from consciousness to consciousness to include include awareness of environment, like gravel in the next corner (but this is a challenging progression) and requires meditation or other trainings.
And this whole topic is not just about YOU. When this awareness of consciousness is done, your fellow riders around you benefit by default. Their consciousnesses get slightly influenced and causes them to slightly increase their awareness, much like staring across the room at the back of someones head.
Good luck is not being presented with a situation. Bad luck is being presented with a situation. The outcome can be altered with skills, training, leathers, etc. And when it can't be altered enough it will require medical insurance and or life insurance.
