10-01-2015, 11:18 PM
This particular passage comes from later on in the sessions (Session 103) and serves to highlight a quite important point (in my opinion).
Namely this: polarity is less about the actual action taken, and more about the internal reasoning processes by which we come to such a conclusion. It's an internal movement of inspiration and motivation. That's why the outward indicators are of very poor guideposts as to polarity: the same action can be undertaken for many different justifications, not all of them externally and internally embracing.
many people try to approach certain behaviours such as alcohol use as something to be stamped out because it's 'not in alignment with the spiritual path'. Maybe reducing usage on external substances (and that can include a whole range of substances) is a good thing. But again, it has to be motivated by an attitude of acceptance, rather than subjugation.
People also try to do 'good deeds' out of a sense of guilt or obligation; rather than joy of inner radiance and sharing. Again, it all comes back to inner motivations.
It reminds me of a maths professor I had at University. It's not the answer that's important, he used to say. Anyone can find the answer. It's how you got to the answer, that's of interest to me.
And so polarity is about the process and the means, not the end result.
One could legislate all negative behaviours in a society. And know what? You'd end up with a negative society, because that is choosing the right answer, through the use of control and enforcement.
And so it is with the self in a microcosm. It's not about the right answer. It's about the experiencing and the process by which you derive your biases. Getting to the shortcut of an answer entails no learning, or bypassed learning.
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so it ain't about good works and good deeds. It's about the reasons why you do such things.
Is it a joyful natural radiance? Or is it an overreasoned, convoluted justification, that others can see right through?
Namely this: polarity is less about the actual action taken, and more about the internal reasoning processes by which we come to such a conclusion. It's an internal movement of inspiration and motivation. That's why the outward indicators are of very poor guideposts as to polarity: the same action can be undertaken for many different justifications, not all of them externally and internally embracing.
Ra Wrote:103.8 As to the instrument, the journey from worth in action to worth in esse is arduous. The entity has denied itself in order to be free from that which it calls addiction. This sort of martyrdom, and here we speak of the small but symbolically great sacrifice of the clothing, causes the entity to frame a selfhood in poorness which feeds unworthiness unless the poverty is seen to be true richness.
In other words, good works for the wrong reasons cause confusion and distortion. We encourage the instrument to value itself and to see that its true requirements are valued by the self. We suggest contemplation of true richness of being.
many people try to approach certain behaviours such as alcohol use as something to be stamped out because it's 'not in alignment with the spiritual path'. Maybe reducing usage on external substances (and that can include a whole range of substances) is a good thing. But again, it has to be motivated by an attitude of acceptance, rather than subjugation.
People also try to do 'good deeds' out of a sense of guilt or obligation; rather than joy of inner radiance and sharing. Again, it all comes back to inner motivations.
It reminds me of a maths professor I had at University. It's not the answer that's important, he used to say. Anyone can find the answer. It's how you got to the answer, that's of interest to me.
And so polarity is about the process and the means, not the end result.
One could legislate all negative behaviours in a society. And know what? You'd end up with a negative society, because that is choosing the right answer, through the use of control and enforcement.
And so it is with the self in a microcosm. It's not about the right answer. It's about the experiencing and the process by which you derive your biases. Getting to the shortcut of an answer entails no learning, or bypassed learning.
/ /
so it ain't about good works and good deeds. It's about the reasons why you do such things.
Is it a joyful natural radiance? Or is it an overreasoned, convoluted justification, that others can see right through?