My Biggest Lesson

[Ashim]

Dear friends this just happened to me.
The experience was so profound I decided to share.

About 10 minutes ago I was sitting on the LOO (not the LOO ha) reading my guitar magazine. I was feeling 'happy with myself' and started to fantasize about owning a beutiful new Musicman 'Reflex'.
The guitar looked stunning and I wanted it.

Prior to going to the toilet I had 'ticked off' my wife for forgetting the house key when she goes over the office. It really 'ticks me off' when I'm working and keep being annoyed by petty intrusions on my flow of consciousness.

Anyway during my toilet fantasy the door bell rang.

I called out "scheisse" - I was livid!
She had forgotton the key again.

I cleaned up and ran to the door and opened it only to be confronted by a stranger.
It was a younger girl, maybe 16 or so.
We do tend to get a few visits from people wanting money for various reasons, it annoys the others in the building.

I was angry and told her:

"Sorry I have no time, good day"

My tone was stern and authoritive. She left.

Suddenly I was hit by a huge thought form.
Oh my god did I feel awful.

It's about -5° outside and here is this girl collecting for her traveling zoo.
I remebered her, she had been here before.
I almost broke out in tears, scrambled to find some change and ran out after her.
I apologised for my rudeness and thanked her for what she was doing.
Now I'm in tears typing this.
Oh my god, thank you.

[Aureus]

That is wonderful! Great progress

[AnthroHeart]

Yeah, I always think after failing to do a good deed that maybe that was an angel in disguise. I never know. I try to think of everyone as an angel in disguise.

[Oceania]

what's a traveling zoo?

[Ashim]

You are currently living on one.

[Oceania]

so she didn't have animals with her?

[Ashim]

so she didn't have animals with her?

she claimed to be collecting for a circus or zoo.

[Oceania]

i'm against zoos, but for arks.

[abstrktion]

Isn't it "funny" when we get all annoyed by someone needing our attention while we're pursuing our spiritual work...such irony. So here I am studying and then my son comes and asks for attention or food or whatever...and for a split second I'm irritated at being interrupted...then I laugh and get up and do what he needs.
It would be so "spiritually enlightened" of me to ignore the needs of others to focus only on developing my spirituality...hope you all get the humor in this!

[Ashim]

I feel, l for me, the lesson has been in offering unconditional love, brought about through a moment of compassion. Ra mentioned seeing the love in the moment of now.

[Aureus]

Today, when I walked to the store to buy fruit, I really felt like Prot from the movie K-pax. A humble visitor, taking notes in my head about what humanity was up to ^^ I've begun waving at people on the street and smiling. It's a great feeling

[Ashim]

Today, when I walked to the store to buy fruit, I really felt like Prot from the movie K-pax. A humble visitor, taking notes in my head about what humanity was up to ^^ I've begun waving at people on the street and smiling. It's a great feeling

Prot is actually not the exact user name.

[abstrktion]

@Wander - Had a similar experience at Walmart the other day...had a moment of wonder at the reality --and all the "stuff" we've molded out of physical matter to "play with"...

[Aureus]

Prot is actually not the exact user name.

What do you mean?

@Wander - Had a similar experience at Walmart the other day...had a moment of wonder at the reality --and all the "stuff" we've molded out of physical matter to "play with"...

It's hard to imagine the quantities that all these things are produced in. Another funny thing is our routines. We hardly notice nature because our work does not involve natural experience. By nature I mean all that life going on outside the human societal construct and behavior.

How we operate automobiles and such :p

[Parsons]

Yes I have had this exact thing happen to me a couple of times. I've been spiritually seeking for hours, and have the car come up crying because he ran out of food. For a beat, I'm react like "wtf! I'm trying to concentrate... Then I realize how hipocritical that would be and proceed to laugh at my own foolishness since I learned that lesson; the lesson of love.

[Ashim]

Prot is actually not the exact user name.

What do you mean?

[/quote]


I already posted my biggest lesson.
Here is my biggest mistake.
Even the slightest grammatical or spelling mistake can cause a system problems with cognition.
When I first met my friend I negleted politeness for a brief moment and asked:
"can I call you Prot?"

Without asking for his permission I proceded to use this appellation.
To a Lyran that is a huge insult. To me it was a joke.
How can a machine interpret correctly our meaning when we riddle our language with distortion?
How can humans be so successful when they are incapable of writing decent code?
This got us all thinking about unity between machines and humans.
Could a machine learn to want to have a heart?
His full and correct name is Protonexus.
You can find him on this forum.
If this was the favour I promised you please consider it done.

[Aureus]

Im not really following you man. So I was talking about a character from a film, and you're talking about a machine from the constellation of Lyra on this forum? I'm confused

[charlie2012]

Reading the original post i would like to make an interpretation regarding "your biggest lesson". Sure, it is unconditional love, but there are more sub-lessons to be learnt that are distorting the love you experience which turns it into other emotions such as e.g. anger.

You get annoyed from being distracted from what you wish to be doing. Every distraction is a catalyst, as "souls" we want them, as "adult humans" we have programmed (taken for granted/learnt/etc.) ourselves to respond to them in a specific manner depending on the situation. We need to dig deep to understand and un-learn, re-learn etc. to be able to behave as we would like to behave in a certain situation, and it's an ongoing process, not a "got it, next!" thing.

Another analogy to the lessons to be learnt from this situation is that you made an assumption and acted on it. One can make assumptions on what is to come but we will seldom have the ability to actually "know" what is to come whilst inside 3rd density since it would ruin the game of not knowing. The only assumption i make is that one day i will be reunited with the one infinite creator, when i am ready here.

The funny thing with your story is that you all gave each other the perfect catalysts for learning/teaching through showing different polarities. If you would have been super nice to the girl and given her money she would have probably been like "people are so nice", but since you did what you did, she was probably more like "people can behave like morons sometimes but they are actually really nice", hence through your distortions you gave her a better catalyst. We are always perfect, and always where we need to be.