08-27-2011, 12:41 PM
(08-27-2011, 12:36 PM)zenmaster Wrote: When personal bias (hope or fear based) - not one's unique 'distortion' - fills in the gaps in understanding, or when desires greatly overextend what is known with what one would like to see. We promote our bias in order to influence and reinforce our own and other's prejudices. Further, we often do this because we perceive that the ends justify the means - this is the 'consequentialist' attitude. That is the dishonest approach, and in this manner we prostitute unconscious. It's a form of lying to oneself, and others, which energizes and only necessitates further fantasy-drama catalyst.
Why cannot spiritual evolution be like play? Why does it have to be so laborious and so nuanced in complexity. Getting tired of all these infinite layers of complexity and the burden of having to live in a world of multiple imposed constrictions.