--- In [email protected], "rudrani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dont the christians have the 'seven deadly sins' or something? .. blah, blah. it means nothing. > we create our reality. we CHOOSE with > every breath. we can eat anything, smoke anything, drink anything, > fuck anything we want, when we want, without fear of guilt or > sickness or remorse or being cursed > IF WE ACCEPT OR OWN WHAT WE DO [CAPS ADDED] > > habits are like gravity, or like karma, or like electricity, its a > natural force that has but one flavor: neutral.
I have had similar thoughts (or understandings). Some possible extensions: If there is shame or fear of exposure to inner habits, secrets or desires, we don't OWN them. Perhaps an experimenal stage is useful, but then why not just own up to "hey, I'm experimental", and I own this experiment, and it may blow up and I may move on." Owning what we do is acknowledging WHAT IS, and rejecting what is not, rejecting the way we wished or hoped or expected things to be. Much of the fear of not owning what we do, in total, is a fear of what others will think of us. Is that any way to live a life? Probably not -- even assuming others really understand the logic of our moves, and our knowledge of the underlying platonic forces behind them? And how many "judgers" out there have such understanding of our world and worldviews -- carefully constructed over time? Few if any it appears. Sometimes it appears prudent, perhaps to own up to our tactics of hiding our inner world, so as not to wake up sleeping elephants which will disrupt our path. For example, if one's livlihood depends on maintaining a social / public adherence to certain standards -- contrary to our own -- then perhaps the best that can be done, in the short term, is to personally own up to the fact that one is living an inauthentic life, but it is a tactic of moving one step back, to move two steps forward. A slippery slope indeed, but perhaps a reasonable course, short term. Longer term we all have to ask, "why do I value what the sleeping elephants can provide me, are there alternatives?" Is the loss of the integrity of full ownership of what I do worth the bounty gained in such trades conducted in the dark alleys of the soul? Owning what we do means owning the consequences. Taking responsiblitlity for them. Probably, if the fullness of karmic effects if real, we can't disown the effects anyway, no matter what. However, it seems more authentic to step up to the plate from the getgo. And by doing so, at lest one loses all the fear, guilt, shame and other social burdens heaped upon those stepping outside prevailing morals. Owning what one does, may help others do the same, or to see new possibilities in their lives. In the directions you take, or in the opposite "I don't want to end up like THAT". Its all progress it would seem (if progress itself is not a facade). To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
