(07-09-2021, 09:14 PM)J.W. Wrote:(07-09-2021, 07:26 AM)Loki Wrote: Doing the right thing for the wrong reason does not give you full benefit of your action. Doing it because you believe is right, but you don't feel is right... is not truly right". Intention is more important that the action because it represents your true colours better. The real work for me to myself is not necessarily learning to do the right thing but rather learning to feel I want to do the right thing.
I appreciate the comment Loki, if you could answer the 3 questions, I am interested in your philosophy and choices.
For the comment, Right/Wrong both has full benefits to the "player," because it keeps the wheel of Karma/Dharma going.
Even with a wrong choice, there will be an "experience" or a "lesson." So in a way, all reasons are valid, and gives you the full benefit of your choice.
"Beliefs" and "Intuition" are another way to say "Mind" and "Spirit."
The "Intention" of a player is the heart of the question in this post I've made. Once you start answering the questions, you can revisit and understand yourself a bit more and where your "true" intention comes from.
With l/l
3. When you are seeking, whether for metaphysical healing, philosophy, science, or just from curiosity. Do you find that it is to serve yourself first?
It is not a sin to serve yourself, it is a must, but I feel most people do not understand what serve means. As Ra was pointing out we will always serve ourselves when we follow our heart regardless if we do it for STO or STS reasons. Our own free will must be obeyed if we want to progress the most. In my understanding it is better to be sincerely of service to self than to be insincerely of service to others. If we are egoistic and we hate ourselves because of this tendency, and we stop ourselves from being egoistic, it is a form of will opposing our free will for the benefit of others which will give us a minimum positive polarity but very little.
Free will is an interesting term. A will which is free. It is very closely associated to desire except that in our society desire has a physical and almost negative meaning. But a free will act is "an act we would feel good by doing". And some people feel good by helping the hopeless others feel good by exploiting the hopeless. This creation was not meant to be unpleasant but we are too afraid to make it pleasant.
Sometimes it takes as much guts to be bad as it take to be good. And then people fake kindness, and then they are frustrated for not being rewarded for their "sacrifice" of being kind, and then they become more distorted and more indecisive in polarization. And then they fail to evolve during incarnation.
I guess the main battle we need to win is within ourselves, if we are content in our own skin we win. Hatonn says something interesting which I find very helpful: If we want to be kinder we need to meditate. Intellect does not change our feeling about creation even if we understand a lot more about it. It would have been so easy if we were nicer as soon we understand there is God but it is harder than that. We understand there is God and yet we are still the same. Reducing our intellectual activity from time to time give some time for the spirit to flourish so that our feeling of God matches our understanding of God. At the end of the day we "might" end up being kinder. I believe my kindness is my best interest.