04-23-2009, 04:28 PM
Hi ayadew,
I feel your frustration, a humble, curious, seeking, weary, loving frustration. Like a desire for the blue pill you will never take here ... to fully embrace the simple pleasures of being without feeling the weight of life's apparent inequities. I wonder if the mind (of a wanderer -- or intuitive, intelligent, compassionate or empathetic) needs a higher degree of distraction to appreciate love. To experience the joy of taking in all experience without judgment, just for the joy of the experience.
The 'problem' here in 3D seems to stem from our apparent need to apply judgment to all action and thought. The nature of that judgment varies greatly, even to startling contrast, depending on the beliefs that we hold. If we consider the veil something we agreed to with intention and 'foreknowledge', then perhaps it is these feelings and experiences we sought.
Another possibility is a truly quantum infinitely parallel universe of belief driven experience in the now. That each paradox is the juxtaposition of opposing beliefs, each creating a time/space branch into a co-existent parallel universe. The obvious paradoxes then only being paradoxical from the perspective of any one time/space branch attempting to consider the infinite others. Intelligent infinity *is* infinite after all, and therefore, in LOO terms possible, perhaps even likely. When I consider this, it allows for the *create your own universe* paradigm, allows for true Free Will, and is certainly centered in love. Where the experiences of an individual are *real* to the individual, but the observed experiences affecting other-selves are the illusion. Where the 'running accumulation' of these infinite 'individual' choices are the food from which the infinite now produces new experience either in potential or actual (depending on choices, including time/space branches, etc.).
Sorry, that went way back to intellect or intuition again didn't it :-P. Us wanderers can tangent like none other. When I think about my most joyous moments there are two aspects, the newness of the experience (i.e. compared to the weight of other experience) and its perceived benefit to myself and all involved. I remember for example, Disneyland the first time, much of the most fun of that experience was in the parking lot, with all the possibility and wonder and mystery promised by the mountaintop of the Matterhorn over the enormous hedge. The fireflies dancing around the boat and the mystery of the old man and the gator in the swamp, the drop into the land where 'Dead Men Tell No Tales' ...
Perhaps this place is a 'Mystery Machine' (homage to Scooby Doo :-P), to provide that experience. The question being whether we let our realization of the increasing mystery (it really never has decreased here, has it?) increase our fear or our wonder, our joy or our sorrow, our desire or our acceptance. Mind, these thoughts rolls out of my heart quite easily, despite being held up for questioning by my intellect. But something like that feels right as a greater perspective, while not giving my day-to-day practical as much to work with -- life's structures give too much complication to allow the heart's musing complete latitude.
Peace and Joy as you desire it,
Jason
I feel your frustration, a humble, curious, seeking, weary, loving frustration. Like a desire for the blue pill you will never take here ... to fully embrace the simple pleasures of being without feeling the weight of life's apparent inequities. I wonder if the mind (of a wanderer -- or intuitive, intelligent, compassionate or empathetic) needs a higher degree of distraction to appreciate love. To experience the joy of taking in all experience without judgment, just for the joy of the experience.
The 'problem' here in 3D seems to stem from our apparent need to apply judgment to all action and thought. The nature of that judgment varies greatly, even to startling contrast, depending on the beliefs that we hold. If we consider the veil something we agreed to with intention and 'foreknowledge', then perhaps it is these feelings and experiences we sought.
Another possibility is a truly quantum infinitely parallel universe of belief driven experience in the now. That each paradox is the juxtaposition of opposing beliefs, each creating a time/space branch into a co-existent parallel universe. The obvious paradoxes then only being paradoxical from the perspective of any one time/space branch attempting to consider the infinite others. Intelligent infinity *is* infinite after all, and therefore, in LOO terms possible, perhaps even likely. When I consider this, it allows for the *create your own universe* paradigm, allows for true Free Will, and is certainly centered in love. Where the experiences of an individual are *real* to the individual, but the observed experiences affecting other-selves are the illusion. Where the 'running accumulation' of these infinite 'individual' choices are the food from which the infinite now produces new experience either in potential or actual (depending on choices, including time/space branches, etc.).
Sorry, that went way back to intellect or intuition again didn't it :-P. Us wanderers can tangent like none other. When I think about my most joyous moments there are two aspects, the newness of the experience (i.e. compared to the weight of other experience) and its perceived benefit to myself and all involved. I remember for example, Disneyland the first time, much of the most fun of that experience was in the parking lot, with all the possibility and wonder and mystery promised by the mountaintop of the Matterhorn over the enormous hedge. The fireflies dancing around the boat and the mystery of the old man and the gator in the swamp, the drop into the land where 'Dead Men Tell No Tales' ...
Perhaps this place is a 'Mystery Machine' (homage to Scooby Doo :-P), to provide that experience. The question being whether we let our realization of the increasing mystery (it really never has decreased here, has it?) increase our fear or our wonder, our joy or our sorrow, our desire or our acceptance. Mind, these thoughts rolls out of my heart quite easily, despite being held up for questioning by my intellect. But something like that feels right as a greater perspective, while not giving my day-to-day practical as much to work with -- life's structures give too much complication to allow the heart's musing complete latitude.
Peace and Joy as you desire it,
Jason