(10-23-2016, 12:26 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: Do you think that explaining it in this way can help the average nigh-harvestable person rise above racism/sexism? Because what you are saying isn't necessarily incorrect. It just doesn't seem to soothe any wounds at this moment in time.
I don't think most people are actually capable of grasping it. I'm simply fascinated by the metaphysics of manifestation and I share it with those who have ears to hear it. With most people I meet I don't go into any sort of detail about it because they don't have the base of understanding for it to be useful, I merely try to redirect their attention to more positive avenues, but on this forum I'm addressing people who are presumably searching for advanced truths (maybe I was wrong to assume that).
(10-23-2016, 12:26 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: So your response to finding a person stranded out in the woods, wounded and in pain, is to scold them and tell them why your way is better than their way, and that their way is causing them even more pain?
And then, as you say, they continue to pick at the wound. So maybe a different course of action is called for?
Well, first off, no analogy is perfect. Secondly, I find in interesting that you interpret it as "scolding". Because it isn't actually scolding -- it is friendly, helpful, and supremely useful advice, but it is quite often that people misinterpret intentions.
And well, I don't know of any better way to call peoples attention to blockages and distortions than to point them out. Unfortunately, words don't actually teach, only experience teaches, so usually I don't even make a suggestion in the first place for better or for worse. At the same time, I refuse to contribute to attachment to victimhood. If somebody wants to gather with other victims and talk about how they're victims, and how there are so many victimizers in the world, and how horrible it is to be a victim, and gosh darn I wish I wasn't a victim, WHY ME...blah, blah, blah....etc, then I'm sorry, I can't go there. I refuse to be part of the amplification of that (even in talking about it here, it constitutes a degree of "pushing against it" which activates it further, but I'm human afterall, and occasionally lack the wisdom to refrain from battle -- which is true for many on this forum it would seem).
I forgive people for misinterpreting that as a lack of compassion, but it really is an act of compassion whether someone understands it or not.
(10-23-2016, 12:26 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: You said that Q'uo was "unintelligible and nonsensical" to you, but conceding that sometimes "fluffy love" is needed. In third density, "fluffy love" is always useful IMO.
I was saying that that particular quote was unintelligible and nonsensical to me. Respectfully I disagree, if it was always useful, then no higher density being would ever come to the conclusion that an excess of it was "folly when seen through the eyes of wisdom". It can be imbalanced and disproportionate just as anything can. That isn't to denigrate it, it has a place and a purpose.
(10-23-2016, 12:26 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: I think wisdom is also about knowing not to project your lessons of wisdom upon those who are explicitly asking for compassion. Wisdom is intended to be informed compassion, not the expression of love without compassion.
Love is what heals. Wisdom doesn't heal, wisdom is just the process of getting better at using love to heal.
Again, if somebody sees me as lacking in compassion, then they don't really understand what I'm about. Sometimes the most compassionate acts don't always seem outwardly as such. Sometimes the medicine that helps, tastes terrible going down.