Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.
The opposites are always dancing with one another. You won’t know an awakened sage or mystic as “awakened”, if there was no “sleep”. Anything you can identify as this or that, is because of its anti-thesis. That’s the beauty of it all.
If someone can’t see the miracle unfolding about them, they are blind. I heard someone say once "if God was only interested in religion, there would only be churches". Right now I’m sitting on the balcony with the beach down below. There are a few kite surfers playing in the waves, pretty impressively I might add… so God likes to kite surf. Is that kite surfer having a “spiritual” experience? Of course! He’s playing in the creation, and all ground is holy ground. He’s experiencing freedom, happiness, good health, exhilaration, excitement and elation. He only experiences these emotions, because he knows their opposites… captivity, restriction, immobility, ill health, sorrow, boredom…etc.
No pair of opposites will cancel the other… they swirl and dance, and co-exist. This is the balance.
Condemn evil, cruelty, injustice, violence etc. and you are condemning their opposites.... and the grand design. One can only exist because of the other. A perfectly balanced entity is unswayed by everything, because he/she has internalised this polarity and accepted it... all of it...
I feel that this is what Jesus meant by “do not resist evil” and what Buddha meant by “detachment”. Our Logos decided on such a thick veil, and we are giving the Creator a unique experience.
So we're a bunch of slow learners on this planet... and our veil is apparently pretty thick... which results in extreme separation... that's okay. That in and of itself, is a unique experience for the Creator.
Hope I didn't go too far off tangent here... these were just the impressions that came to me when reading this thread.
In answer to the thread title... we are co-existing and we have total freedom.
The opposites are always dancing with one another. You won’t know an awakened sage or mystic as “awakened”, if there was no “sleep”. Anything you can identify as this or that, is because of its anti-thesis. That’s the beauty of it all.
If someone can’t see the miracle unfolding about them, they are blind. I heard someone say once "if God was only interested in religion, there would only be churches". Right now I’m sitting on the balcony with the beach down below. There are a few kite surfers playing in the waves, pretty impressively I might add… so God likes to kite surf. Is that kite surfer having a “spiritual” experience? Of course! He’s playing in the creation, and all ground is holy ground. He’s experiencing freedom, happiness, good health, exhilaration, excitement and elation. He only experiences these emotions, because he knows their opposites… captivity, restriction, immobility, ill health, sorrow, boredom…etc.
No pair of opposites will cancel the other… they swirl and dance, and co-exist. This is the balance.
Quote:Ra: I am Ra. The Law of Confusion or Free Will is utterly paramount in the workings of the infinite creation. That which is intended has as much intensity of attraction to the polar opposite as the intensity of the intention or desire.
Quote:Ra: The choice is, as you put it, the work of a moment but is the axis upon which the creation turns.
Condemn evil, cruelty, injustice, violence etc. and you are condemning their opposites.... and the grand design. One can only exist because of the other. A perfectly balanced entity is unswayed by everything, because he/she has internalised this polarity and accepted it... all of it...
Quote:Ra: To begin to master the concept of mental discipline it is necessary to examine the self. The polarity of your dimension must be internalized. Where you find patience within your mind you must consciously find the corresponding impatience and vice versa. Each thought that a being has, has in its turn an antithesis. The disciplines of the mind involve, first of all, identifying both those things of which you approve and those things of which you disapprove within yourself, and then balancing each and every positive and negative charge with its equal. The mind contains all things. Therefore, you must discover this completeness within yourself.
The second mental discipline is acceptance of the completeness within your consciousness. It is not for a being of polarity in the physical consciousness to pick and choose among attributes, thus building the roles that cause blockages and confusions in the already-distorted mind complex. Each acceptance smoothes part of the many distortions that the faculty you call judgment engenders.
The third discipline of the mind is a repetition of the first but with the gaze outward towards the fellow entities that it meets. In each entity there exists completeness. Thus, the ability to understand each balance is necessary. When you view patience, you are responsible for mirroring in your mental understanding, patience/impatience. When you view impatience, it is necessary for your mental configuration of understanding to be impatience/patience. We use this as a simple example. Most configurations of mind have many facets, and understanding of either self polarities, or what you would call other-self polarities, can and must be understood as subtle work.
The next step is the acceptance of the other-self polarities, which mirrors the second step.
I feel that this is what Jesus meant by “do not resist evil” and what Buddha meant by “detachment”. Our Logos decided on such a thick veil, and we are giving the Creator a unique experience.
Quote:Questioner: Would Ra’s attitude toward the same unharvestable entities be different at this nexus than at the time of harvest of third density?
Ra: I am Ra. Not substantially. To those who wish to sleep we could only offer those comforts designed for the sleeping.
So we're a bunch of slow learners on this planet... and our veil is apparently pretty thick... which results in extreme separation... that's okay. That in and of itself, is a unique experience for the Creator.
Hope I didn't go too far off tangent here... these were just the impressions that came to me when reading this thread.
Quote:Ra: I am Ra. The metaphysical and physical are inseparable.
In answer to the thread title... we are co-existing and we have total freedom.