The Cultivation of Radical Honesty

[Sacred Fool]

You mention discipline of the personality. What are your thoughts on the distinction Ra makes between direction or discipline and control? Obviously, a lot of this is happening on the mental level, so we're dealing here with thoughts - stray, errant thoughts are my constant, ahem, companions. I've been working with loving and accepting thoughts, even those I find distasteful, but I struggle with how to respond to them in a way that doesn't attempt to "overcome" them, know what I mean? When I'm dead honest with myself, I think my worse enemies are my expectations - my standards for judging whether or not my progress is acceptable. If I didn't have these expectations or standards, and just stayed the course - which is my current practice - I feel I'd be much better off. I'd also not be Jeremy.

I don't know how helpful this is, but my take on all that sort of thing is that (a) the thoughts aren't a big deal, it's the chain of other associated stuff that creates the dramatic tension [such as fears, genetic impulses and on and on] and (b) our task--should we choose to accept--is to simply become transparent to these things.

Does this mean that we should not have feelings or associated thoughts? No, we become transparent to those as well. Does it mean we then take no action (because transparent people can't be expected to do much work)? No, we become transparent to the whole chain of karmic impulse and action.

So, what does "transparent" mean exactly in this context?

Good question. What do you think?







Huh. Look what I just found above.

Ra: I am Ra. The heart of the discipline of the personality is threefold. One, know your self. Two, accept your self. Three, become the Creator.

The third step is that step which, when accomplished, renders one the most humble servant of all, transparent in personality and completely able to know and accept other-selves. In relation to the pursuit of the magical working the continuing discipline of the personality involves the adept in knowing its self, accepting its self, and thus clearing the path towards the great indigo gateway to the Creator. To become the Creator is to become all that there is. There is, then, no personality in the sense with which the adept begins its learn/teaching. As the consciousness of the indigo ray becomes more crystalline, more work may be done; more may be expressed from intelligent infinity.

So, what does "transparent" mean exactly in this context?

Good question. What do you think?