02-13-2021, 03:30 PM
(02-13-2021, 02:20 PM)Diana Wrote: I am also wondering what role "forgiveness" has to play in a reality where no free-will infringement is possible.
To me the idea that free will infringement is not possible is what facilitates forgiveness, either of self or an other-self. In a way it opens the door to the perception of oneness and that we are all in this together. Growing, discovering ourselves, just as making mistakes and learning from them. A lot of our behaviors are rooted in our bodies and instincts, and it takes time to reflect on them and decide on our desired direction of a specie. Wanting to label anything as wrong, or an infringement, ultimately creates separation within perception and in turn within our emotions. If this becomes an absolute within one's perception, then one may never allow itself to forgive.
I believe the foundation of the STO path lies in acceptance because it is the most direct manner in which things will grow. We naturally move upward within the spectrum of our emotions, naturally feeling guilt, shame and so on without requiring mindfulness to experience them. Every time there is a lack of acceptance, it creates a tension within the elevation of our consciousness and in its natural growth. Everywhere you have felt guilt, you need also to realize that your behaviors were normal as part of your development and that turning to better ways is facilitated by forgiving yourself. This does not deny either that in our growth we can want to expand the awareness of others, just that this might be more efficient without any judgment.
So to me the idea that there is no infringement as 3D beings is really about that we are all in this together at the same level, none above nor below another. We are to large extent merely the continuity of our environment in its evolution, with the honor/duty of evolving further as part of it. Still, the term can be purposeful. To respect others' free will, or be consonant with the Law of One, is to be non-coercive in your dealings with others as to respect the flourishing of the infinite intelligence at play within the uniqueness of their being. But this is a high state of balance that is not in any way natural to us and instead can only be learnt. Before learning to be in such a balanced state, we are active actors within the balancing of our environment. This is more natural the less we are entangled with something, no one really seems to judge how different every animal is within nature, because it feels natural to us to see these differences. But in our dealings with other humans, we tend to process them as ourselves and this lesser recognition of their individuality creates in turn expectations upon their behaviors. It is interesting to note that within the Ra cosmology, multiple human souls in fact come from lineages of 2D entities that have had extremely different past experiences. Some may very well feel like sharks among humans, well because they actually used to be sharks, who knows.
This quote came to mind:
Quote: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.
So to conclude, I believe to recognize the paradox of free will infringement is useful from a spiritual and cosmological perspective to realize unity. In personal and social growth, it is a component of what we will feel as part of our experience of duality that cannot be avoided.