10-27-2009, 01:02 PM
Returning to challenging (isn't it challenging to keep the focus on challenging), I just want to aver that the process of challenging helps in the process of defining/refining one's own energetic posture. By helping to reconcile one's deepest felt self (essentially) with one's external experience, it helps balance one's relationship of space/time to time/space.
The talk about the purity of the L/L-Ra connection versus other sources reminds me of how I used to get so confused when I'd hear "spiritual masters" say that any path is as good another; stick with what you've got. That made no sense to me until I read something Anandamayi Ma append onto that. She said they're all equivalent because they all lead you to the same goal >>> inside your own self.
It seems to me that the process of continuing to refine one's being and seek it's core Self is much aided by the challenging not only of other entities, but of concepts of self and, yes, one's own concepts of what is highest and best. This too can be refined, I would suppose. My guess is that it's personal dedication to this sort self-tuning that conduces to the crystallization of an entity.
I guess I should clarify that by "challenging" I don't mean necessarily acting the way I do and poking people's patterns and beliefs. I mean having a clear sense of what level of distortion you'll allow to be woven into your own personal energy field.
The talk about the purity of the L/L-Ra connection versus other sources reminds me of how I used to get so confused when I'd hear "spiritual masters" say that any path is as good another; stick with what you've got. That made no sense to me until I read something Anandamayi Ma append onto that. She said they're all equivalent because they all lead you to the same goal >>> inside your own self.
It seems to me that the process of continuing to refine one's being and seek it's core Self is much aided by the challenging not only of other entities, but of concepts of self and, yes, one's own concepts of what is highest and best. This too can be refined, I would suppose. My guess is that it's personal dedication to this sort self-tuning that conduces to the crystallization of an entity.
I guess I should clarify that by "challenging" I don't mean necessarily acting the way I do and poking people's patterns and beliefs. I mean having a clear sense of what level of distortion you'll allow to be woven into your own personal energy field.