02-14-2010, 03:46 PM
My dear light, when i read your posts i get the sense of a well read, self assured young man, filled with the passions of youth when radical, life changing discoveries and decisions can seem so easy
You are so clearly going through some big changes in your life, and i think it is wonderful that you are sharing your journey with us
I'm only writing this post because to be honest i can't help thinking about your parents. What i suggest may be absolutely wide of the mark but these are the thoughts i have when reading your posts
Firstly, i get the strong sense that you are perhaps painting too rosy a picture of life overseas and giving too harsh a judgement of your local environment
You suggest the poorest people are the most spiritually rich – i would counter that by saying that the most impoverished societies offer the harshest catalyst, those brave souls to choose an incarnation filled with want and with suffering are given the harshest conditions under which to make their choice of StS or StO. Perhaps these harsh conditions make their act of choosing more likely. I don’t think those societies are inherently more spiritual just because they lack the obvious western materialistic values.
I am reminded of one of my very dearest friends who spent a lot of years harshly disparaging Scotland, the society, the people here, the communities that were too small for him, and putting asia on a pedestal, japan in particular. He has now lived in Japan and South Korea for 4 years. It has been a difficult lesson for him to learn that people are people wherever you go, that every society has its imperfections and that there is much value to be found in what you rebel against as a young man.
Secondly, if you feel your path lies in a country or a society distant from the one you chose to incarnate into, why do you think you chose your original location? I ask this as someone who had a strong sense that my destiny lay elsewhere to the place where i grew up and I spent 10 miserable, lonely years finding a path back home. I don’t doubt that many people will choose an incarnation that will take them on physical as well as spiritual journeys, it’s simply that given your physical youth i would caution you to take time over your decision to cast aside your current location and environment.
Please take a deep breath and try to see the perfection that is surrounding you now before you take this grand leap to a new life in a society that sounds very unfamiliar to you. It sounds to me, the way you talk about the people in your life, your society, your circumstances, as though you are running away. This may very well be totally incorrect, but that is how your posts are coming across to me.
Regardless, your energy and drive is inspirational, I’m sure you will have an incredibly rich and fascinating life.
You are so clearly going through some big changes in your life, and i think it is wonderful that you are sharing your journey with us
I'm only writing this post because to be honest i can't help thinking about your parents. What i suggest may be absolutely wide of the mark but these are the thoughts i have when reading your posts
Firstly, i get the strong sense that you are perhaps painting too rosy a picture of life overseas and giving too harsh a judgement of your local environment
You suggest the poorest people are the most spiritually rich – i would counter that by saying that the most impoverished societies offer the harshest catalyst, those brave souls to choose an incarnation filled with want and with suffering are given the harshest conditions under which to make their choice of StS or StO. Perhaps these harsh conditions make their act of choosing more likely. I don’t think those societies are inherently more spiritual just because they lack the obvious western materialistic values.
I am reminded of one of my very dearest friends who spent a lot of years harshly disparaging Scotland, the society, the people here, the communities that were too small for him, and putting asia on a pedestal, japan in particular. He has now lived in Japan and South Korea for 4 years. It has been a difficult lesson for him to learn that people are people wherever you go, that every society has its imperfections and that there is much value to be found in what you rebel against as a young man.
Secondly, if you feel your path lies in a country or a society distant from the one you chose to incarnate into, why do you think you chose your original location? I ask this as someone who had a strong sense that my destiny lay elsewhere to the place where i grew up and I spent 10 miserable, lonely years finding a path back home. I don’t doubt that many people will choose an incarnation that will take them on physical as well as spiritual journeys, it’s simply that given your physical youth i would caution you to take time over your decision to cast aside your current location and environment.
Please take a deep breath and try to see the perfection that is surrounding you now before you take this grand leap to a new life in a society that sounds very unfamiliar to you. It sounds to me, the way you talk about the people in your life, your society, your circumstances, as though you are running away. This may very well be totally incorrect, but that is how your posts are coming across to me.
Regardless, your energy and drive is inspirational, I’m sure you will have an incredibly rich and fascinating life.