12-30-2012, 02:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-30-2012, 03:02 PM by Tenet Nosce.)
(12-30-2012, 03:23 AM)zenmaster Wrote: This focal point is built in. The Law of Responsibility does not go into effect without it. It is the choice to ignore it which results in the shortening of natural lifespan by 90%. Indeed people will glorify ignoring it.
Ignorance takes a lot of energy that could be put to other uses- and it would seem like the longer one goes on with an incarnation, the more energy it takes, until there is eventually none left for living.
Or we could look at it from the soul's perspective. What purpose is there in maintaining an incarnation if it is not resulting in self-awareness?
As Shin'Ar is apt to point out- we don't really have true identity. We are a mishmash of "me"s, each with its own thoughts and desires and motivations, that often conflict directly with one another. And whichever little "me" we have identified with at a given moment- we think that is all of us. Then, in the next moment, another "me" takes control and we think that THAT is all of us.
It is like a spotlight is shining into our field of consciousness, and we keep assuming that whatever it happens to be shining on at a given moment is "I" and we forget about all the other parts it is not shining upon.
If we want to know about identity, then we must ask ourselves: Who is shining the light?