03-18-2012, 06:56 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-18-2012, 06:59 PM by Steppingfeet.)
I've wondered what constitutes "spiritual" pain. What causes it, how it manifests, how it's perceived, and how it's healed.
I've never encountered information that sheds light on pain of this nature. My own thoughts are few and vague.
Any one have any ideas?
Plenum, one aspect of the "light touch", to me, is the ability to be detached from the seeming gravity, enormity, and life-sized consequence of the catalyst at hand, and, in that distance and detachment, recognize the cosmic humor of taking the temporary, fleeting role we play on the stage of the incarnation so dreadfully seriously.
The light touch responds with joyful mirth to the absurd situation of clinging to a mortal body/mind, and of defending to the teeth the many trivial needs/wants of an illusory identity, because in truth the entity of the light touch has either a sense, or direct experiential knowing, that we were never born and will never die, and can never be diminished or augmented.
In that space of detachment one zooms out from the catalyst at hand, reducing its consuming, eclipsing nature from a long-view perspective which sees just how insignificant catalyst becomes in the face of infinity. In the space that makes catalyst small and the Self big, grace flows in, and the light touch follows.
No need for harsh actions or attitude towards another or the self; no need for the heavy burden of blame, guilt, and pining for things seemingly lost; no need for a sense of failure or wrong-doing. Just a joyful, light-and-sure-footed dance that moves in cooperation with the shifting energies, seeing all events as opportunities for service and learning, no matter if by the world's criteria a particular event is deemed negative. Cooperative, graceful, self-radiant, smile-filled dancing with the plays of light and shadow, gain and loss, birth and death.
I've never encountered information that sheds light on pain of this nature. My own thoughts are few and vague.
Any one have any ideas?
Plenum, one aspect of the "light touch", to me, is the ability to be detached from the seeming gravity, enormity, and life-sized consequence of the catalyst at hand, and, in that distance and detachment, recognize the cosmic humor of taking the temporary, fleeting role we play on the stage of the incarnation so dreadfully seriously.
The light touch responds with joyful mirth to the absurd situation of clinging to a mortal body/mind, and of defending to the teeth the many trivial needs/wants of an illusory identity, because in truth the entity of the light touch has either a sense, or direct experiential knowing, that we were never born and will never die, and can never be diminished or augmented.
In that space of detachment one zooms out from the catalyst at hand, reducing its consuming, eclipsing nature from a long-view perspective which sees just how insignificant catalyst becomes in the face of infinity. In the space that makes catalyst small and the Self big, grace flows in, and the light touch follows.
No need for harsh actions or attitude towards another or the self; no need for the heavy burden of blame, guilt, and pining for things seemingly lost; no need for a sense of failure or wrong-doing. Just a joyful, light-and-sure-footed dance that moves in cooperation with the shifting energies, seeing all events as opportunities for service and learning, no matter if by the world's criteria a particular event is deemed negative. Cooperative, graceful, self-radiant, smile-filled dancing with the plays of light and shadow, gain and loss, birth and death.
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, but love unexplained is clearer. - Rumi
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