(12-12-2013, 01:52 PM)Tanner Wrote: I am not sure what you are suggesting for that to be an inequality. The challenge of continuous rejection is no easier or difficult than continuous acceptance. Each path thrives on its choices. The suffering that may come of the negative path is of a different nature than the suffering of the positive, and these lines are not always clear, but so is the joy of one path different from the other. The positive may perceive greater difficulty in the negative because of their own choice, and the same is true for the negative path. The positive or negative may also view their own path as more difficult, and this may be part of the challenge of said path.
Consider that to the positive, the negative is included in the self but still accepted as an other self. To the negative, the positive is just self, and is not accepted as an other self. It is as equally painful for the positive to have to stand back and love from a distance as it is for the negative to perceive themselves as lacking control over other self. The positive wants to share in the self, the negative wants the self to be absolute, both of these create difficulties and distortions within the complex of self.
Everything is relative. Looking around at this life it can be seen how one occurrence may be detrimental to one individual, yet the same occurrence may pass easily by another. To attempt to create a lump generalization of easier or more difficult for either path is to blind oneself to the uniqueness of every individual and the path they take.
If you ask me, there is one primary challenge that both of the paths face which I believe to be the most fundamental of challenges and which is equal to both. That is: Patience. Patience is required in the utmost for both acceptance and control. All other challenges on either path, imo, arise from the challenge of patience.
As for balanced will being a place of comfort, what is balanced will, exactly? Do you mean someone who has achieved conscious awareness of how their will is being used? Do you mean balanced between intentions on either path? Or balanced between mind, body and spirit? Or between head and heart? To me, the will is like a flame, it can be kept steady, which would maybe be called balanced I suppose, but is that a balance between fuel, flame and catalyst? Or do you mean when an individual's will is not being distracted and is one pointed in focus?
Either way, note that I said excessive comfort is a challenge. There is a comfort and relaxation which comes from inner peace that is not the same as the engagement in comfortable experiences which is to what I was referring. The positive entity is constantly challenged to muster the will to move forward in evolution, to change the self to grow. The negative entity is challenged by the universe whom it perceives as the only boundary to absolute will. Both seek to go beyond these challenges by perceiving the self as Creator. Positive finds meaning and motivation in the other self to move forward while the negative finds meaning and motivation solely in the self. To both, the greatest challenge is the horizons of the self, which are infinite.
I'm considering printing this picture, framing it, and putting it up on the wall....
I'm curious as to why so many are talking about Adonai as though he wasn't here?