01-20-2011, 12:27 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-20-2011, 12:29 PM by rva_jeremy.)
(01-18-2011, 12:41 PM)Shemaya Wrote: What does anyone think"total purity" refers to?
It could provoke a sense of "unworthiness", and catalyze some inner reflection :o)
That's what I see, too, which is why I don't focus on it too much.
Purity implies a standard by which something is judged, and because there is pathetically little understanding on these matters, it is useless to hold oneself to an imperfectly understood standard. It's like trying to hit a target while dizzy.
I'd prefer the achievement of purity be guided by the intuition. That way there is not so much judgment of self as acceptance of self, because since we have no standard we have to face and integrate everything we're getting from the intuition. There's no way we're going to achieve something we can call "pure" in this density, but calling things this or that is, after all, not the point in the first place.
(01-18-2011, 12:41 PM)Shemaya Wrote: I think it means being able to recognize the catalyst in the moment, and make the choice to see love in the moment as much as possible, and if not in the moment during meditative reflection later, or later in processing.
I agree. Well said.