08-08-2017, 12:45 PM
Jade, your contribution inspired a thought.
Throughout the material, Confederation sources state that energies that are not balanced within become manifest without. Disease is the most common example cited for this, but it occurs to me that all manifestation is a mirror of our thought and the resulting energy configuration.
The mirroring phenomenon is simply, as Jade stated, a way of balancing aspects of ourselves in a way that cannot simply be ignored. When we are balanced in a given aspect, such as the preceding example of patience, another's impatience does not really provoke an emotional response. It is only when we are imbalanced that the emotion registers. Thus those of Ra's remarks on balance, which I encourage you to review (42.2 through 42.4), where the emotional response is seen as not some handicap to be overcome so much as a reminder of something we have neglected to balance.
This is similar to the story where the Buddha is attacked, and all the weapons turn to flowers. As Pema Chödrön tells it, he realizes that things we regard as obstacles are actually helpful, in that they point directly to where we are stuck. We can treat our emotional responses to things we perceive as negative as gifts that show us exactly where we need balance. I've never read a more poetic illustration of catalyst!
To digress, I've been fascinated by this idea that our waking lives are not some external drama that runs alongside our inner thoughts. It's a very pregnant idea to consider one's day-to-day life as a continuation of the ongoing meditation on our inner desires, thoughts, and natures. There's something about the very concept of catalyst that exposes how life and experience really operate in the broadest possible context. It is almost as if manifest reality and waking life can be thought of as an "inflection point" in Creation, the nadir of the Creator's descent into separation, past which illusion simply cannot proceed further. Whatever thought patterns we entertain, their trajectory stops there and are reflected back to the Creator by the material illusion. Perhaps the experience of embodiment that so characterizes the illusion of separation is necessary precisely so we can occupy a position relative to that inflection? </digression>
Throughout the material, Confederation sources state that energies that are not balanced within become manifest without. Disease is the most common example cited for this, but it occurs to me that all manifestation is a mirror of our thought and the resulting energy configuration.
The mirroring phenomenon is simply, as Jade stated, a way of balancing aspects of ourselves in a way that cannot simply be ignored. When we are balanced in a given aspect, such as the preceding example of patience, another's impatience does not really provoke an emotional response. It is only when we are imbalanced that the emotion registers. Thus those of Ra's remarks on balance, which I encourage you to review (42.2 through 42.4), where the emotional response is seen as not some handicap to be overcome so much as a reminder of something we have neglected to balance.
This is similar to the story where the Buddha is attacked, and all the weapons turn to flowers. As Pema Chödrön tells it, he realizes that things we regard as obstacles are actually helpful, in that they point directly to where we are stuck. We can treat our emotional responses to things we perceive as negative as gifts that show us exactly where we need balance. I've never read a more poetic illustration of catalyst!
To digress, I've been fascinated by this idea that our waking lives are not some external drama that runs alongside our inner thoughts. It's a very pregnant idea to consider one's day-to-day life as a continuation of the ongoing meditation on our inner desires, thoughts, and natures. There's something about the very concept of catalyst that exposes how life and experience really operate in the broadest possible context. It is almost as if manifest reality and waking life can be thought of as an "inflection point" in Creation, the nadir of the Creator's descent into separation, past which illusion simply cannot proceed further. Whatever thought patterns we entertain, their trajectory stops there and are reflected back to the Creator by the material illusion. Perhaps the experience of embodiment that so characterizes the illusion of separation is necessary precisely so we can occupy a position relative to that inflection? </digression>
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