08-06-2011, 02:19 PM
(08-06-2011, 01:43 PM)Kiko Wrote: Thank you for those thoughts Zenmaster. For some reason I have always been drawn into other people's world views, which I think is part of being sensitive to their energies/emotions. I have found myself looking back and smiling when I see how much I have 'fallen into'. Learning to not do so has been part of my own change by setting some boundaries in the state of 'individuality' in which we live in this level of being.And when you have done that, what is the difference in attitude? You realize more and more that they are the same as yourself and yet you are more and more different. It's like more unique and distinct but, at the same time, actually closer, right?
(08-06-2011, 01:43 PM)Kiko Wrote: I like reading what people say in these forums because there is usually a kind slap in the face when someone becomes over-zealous! While I like to participate, I have refrained a lot by balancing my own desire to be part of a discussion with thoughts such as, "Do I need to say anything, really? Will I be contributing anything which could be of use to someone?"Because we have a lifetime of learning behind us, I think any attempt to offer that perspective on a matter, in an honest manner, is going to provide an opportunity for reflection to some extent. Actually the very effort to bridge our own intuitive understandings by articulating our bias of what may currently only be mere apprehension is a good way of learning about ourselves - that's 'learn/teach'.
(08-06-2011, 01:43 PM)Kiko Wrote: I find myself here not as starting out in something, but having lived and remembered so much that Ra spoke of through the group, so it feels like, "Aha; these are my people" if that makes sense?Yes, these are the 'good guys'.
(08-06-2011, 01:43 PM)Kiko Wrote: Everything we do as individuals in terms of our spiritual practices, rituals, meditations and so on seem to be just our own cake icing. I think that those who seem to think they know it all, as well as those who think they know nothing, all come to understanding of themselves as time goes by. At least it looks that way to me over the years. It is all good in the end, yes?It's a fool-proof system that has become more and more evident and amenable to 'faith'. Regardless of the current distortions and biases that seem so compelling, eventually self recognizes self, things are balanced, then on to the next learning.