02-10-2009, 02:20 AM
(02-10-2009, 12:21 AM)spero Wrote: Thanks for the warm welcome. I’m glad I could be of help
Your welcome for my welcome (lol). Your post this morning actually caused me much consternation and befuddlement, this during several important negotiations today (I often find myself as much engaged in conversations with self with respect to the larger questions as regards love, life, the LOO, and the deeper philosophical whatnots, as much as I do in: did I forget to turn the coffee off, and what am I doing here, all while in a board meeting, or sitting with a rather important decision).
There was much discussion on "The Attachment To Karma ,or lack thereof" as regards a successful STO or STS. But by the sentiment expressed by Quo, and by Ra below, STS in fact ingests, ravages, and to the converse, delights in the creation of ever increasing amounts of karma, this to fuel and hone his rage, like a blunt instrument. He digs his hole ever deeper, in a sense, burrowing his way to and through the other side, becoming the master of it, this by the very accumulation of karma, verses "burning it off" as would his brother of STO. He as a result is in fact EXTREMELY ATTACHED to his karma, and craves always more of it, this in an unending pathology of desiring more. And herein lay my dilemma. I was looking for "what does his karma look like" attempting to view it through STO eyes from an STO mindset. It seems it looks as horrible, pitiful, or painful as does the karma of STO.
I therefore humbly submit that perhaps all/most of us, as more leaning to STO, are in fact somewhat dense to the sublimely simple answer, that it (STS karma) in fact looks exactly the same....PAIN....SUFFERING....but with the chief difference being that STS delights in it, craves it, even when his own, to the extent of causing chaos and control through his own pain to and over others.
Questioner: Can you tell me what bias creates the momentum towards the chosen path of service to self?
Ra: I am Ra. We can speak only in metaphor. Some love the light. Some love the darkness. It is a matter of the unique and infinitely various Creator choosing and playing among its experiences as a child upon a picnic. Some enjoy the picnic and find the sun beautiful, the food delicious, the games refreshing, and glow with the joy of creation. Some find the night delicious, their picnic being pain, difficulty, sufferings of others, and the examination of the perversities of nature. These enjoy a different picnic.
I can not find it in the search, but am reminded of what I believe is a Ra quote that draws the distinctions between an STS vs STO both dying of a disease. The STO utilizes his dying/disease as an opportunity to create love, togetherness, family, as well as compassion and harmony in the room and in the experience between family and health care worker alike, while the STS utilizes his dying/disease as a means to inflict rage, hostility, ugliness, disdain, and dishramony between family and health care worker alike.
Karma is karma. Pain is pain. Suffering is suffering...just like the air is the air, the sun is the sun, and the night is the night. It looks exactly the same, with the chief difference being that STS delights in it.
The exercise has been worth the effort. Thank you again Spero
Q