06-03-2019, 05:54 PM
(06-03-2019, 12:16 PM)loostudent Wrote:Quote:You did not come into this world to lean on others, to lean on ideas, to lean on possessions or to lean on preconceived ethics.
You came into this world a perfect creature and that perfection was rapidly overlaid by a complex system of intellectual limitations which were placed upon you by others. You then carefully continued the work of your parents, believed what they told you in good faith, and for your lifetime have been trying in good faith to live according to the precepts of people and ideas and ethics and ways of being that have been taught to you.
https://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/i...927_1.aspx
I can't agree with this. What makes us human? It's other humans, culture, tradition, socialization ... Without this we would be uncivilized. We know of examples of humans who grew up in wilderness ...
Quote:The belief that children have an intrinsically unsullied spirit, damaged only by culture and society, is derived in no small part from the eighteenth-century Genevan French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau was a fervent believer in the corrupting influence of human society and private ownership alike. He claimed that nothing was so gentle and wonderful as man in his pre-civilized state. At precisely the same time, noting his inability as a father, he abandoned five of his children to the tender and fatal mercies of the orphanages of the time.
(J. Peterson: 12 Rules)
I think to counter your “what makes us human” comment is that we are not human. Human is a construct of beliefs. What is good, what one should do or be, what is needed, limitations, fears, errors(belief or otherwise) passed on.
We come from light uncorrupted, without taking on the collective belief, and karma we are still light in human form. Once we shed those beliefs/karma we become light in human form again.
Add to that I am fairly uncivilized. Since I did not take the societal training well. I live in the world but was not subject successfully to most of its programming. I see that as terribly fortunate. I carry less shame, self judgement, pressure to conform. I am more free and I don’t think that’s a bad thing. Mostly all these thoughts and communal beliefs just separate us from our intrinsic self which is love.
Be like a child, Law of One certainly isn’t the only spiritual path that talks of that state as being one of more purity. By purity I do not mean more worthy, but with less contamination of other things, ego, judgement, greed, control issues, shame, denial of self......
Children have less of this, and without it we are less separate and more in contact with our godly state.