10-24-2015, 11:33 AM
I think that catalyst that we experience is always internalized before we are able to process it so acceptance always pertains to some aspect of the self. I actually don't think it has anything to do with 'tolerance' but rather Ra specified that acceptance or control was of catalyst. Now everything we experience is catalyst, but as I said I think we only process it once it is internalized.
So, then, I look to what I understand as the Archetypes of catalyst. I see that while catalyst is something we experience, it appears to me its real mechanism is something that happens as part of us. Thus, for example, using your drug user thought, I don't think acceptance would have anything to do with telling the person anything. I think it would more revolve around your own ability to accept the freedom of their choice, while also accepting your own concern for them. How you chose to approach this individual wouldn't necessarily determine your acceptance. You could get upset with them and be angry and this could still be a reflection of the fact that you accept that the person is doing what they are doing.
I think this is a subtle aspect of the 'peace/conflict' interplay that is often overlooked. I think in general people tend to negatively characterize conflict but I think that conflict can be used incredibly positively as well.
The issue, I think, is that people associate positivity with pleasantness most of the time but I actually don't think an experience necessarily has to be pleasant to be positive. Point in case, I had to get a cyst broken yesterday. Hurt and sent my body in to shock, was not pleasant at all, but now that it's done I have more movement and flow in my body than I have had for years it seems.
As Sun Tzu said, 'no one who has experienced war, likes war'. Thus, the key, he said, is to resolve things quickly. If there must be conflict and battle, make it as quick and resolved as decisively as possible. It is only more pain to continue war. This is why I as an individual am not particularly avoidant of conflict because I see it as being the key to resolution which leads to greater acceptance and understanding.
Conflict isn't just about physical structures, it happens on every level. I think that physical conflict is getting 'out-dated' but mental and emotional conflict is what attention is upon now. This conflict is what I would use to describe the nature of balance and imbalance. What is imbalanced is in conflict and what is balanced is at peace.
So, then, I look to what I understand as the Archetypes of catalyst. I see that while catalyst is something we experience, it appears to me its real mechanism is something that happens as part of us. Thus, for example, using your drug user thought, I don't think acceptance would have anything to do with telling the person anything. I think it would more revolve around your own ability to accept the freedom of their choice, while also accepting your own concern for them. How you chose to approach this individual wouldn't necessarily determine your acceptance. You could get upset with them and be angry and this could still be a reflection of the fact that you accept that the person is doing what they are doing.
I think this is a subtle aspect of the 'peace/conflict' interplay that is often overlooked. I think in general people tend to negatively characterize conflict but I think that conflict can be used incredibly positively as well.
The issue, I think, is that people associate positivity with pleasantness most of the time but I actually don't think an experience necessarily has to be pleasant to be positive. Point in case, I had to get a cyst broken yesterday. Hurt and sent my body in to shock, was not pleasant at all, but now that it's done I have more movement and flow in my body than I have had for years it seems.
As Sun Tzu said, 'no one who has experienced war, likes war'. Thus, the key, he said, is to resolve things quickly. If there must be conflict and battle, make it as quick and resolved as decisively as possible. It is only more pain to continue war. This is why I as an individual am not particularly avoidant of conflict because I see it as being the key to resolution which leads to greater acceptance and understanding.
Conflict isn't just about physical structures, it happens on every level. I think that physical conflict is getting 'out-dated' but mental and emotional conflict is what attention is upon now. This conflict is what I would use to describe the nature of balance and imbalance. What is imbalanced is in conflict and what is balanced is at peace.