Exactly, and I agree with you 100%. I felt all of the things you just expressed regarding my interaction with Akasha. Its just that I saw that he had met me part of the distance and I wanted to acknowledge that. That was the important part for me. My personal experience is that once the door to self-knowledge has been opened even a little bit, the full expression of that is not far behind.
Thank you for completing the circle though. It is very fulfilling! Jai Guru Dev, Jim --- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi Akasha, > > > > > > Thank you for your lengthy and thoughtful reply. I can much better > > > understand your overall perspective now, which oddly enough is > > very > > > much like my own. > > On the other hand, Jim, if I were you I wouldn't doubt my perceptions > of Akasha's sometimes having had a "mean-spirited" quality in his > posts. When confronted in the past he has often denied them with a > sweetly reasonable post like this last one, and/or is quick to use > the "mirror defense," accusing YOU of projecting. While projection is > always a possibility, especially when the ego is threatened (which > Akasha has also demonstrated nicely from time to time), and is > morevoer absolutely the Truth from the "highest" level (i.e. we are > all "projecting" everything all the time from the Self), such truisms > nonetheless do not serve when used to deny one's feeling-level. The > Heart is beyond ego, beyond the small self, and quite capable of > perceiving the energy-signature of a given post. > > This might be akin to what Peter has called "confusion of dharmas" -- > i.e. misapplying the Truth of one "state" to justify bad behavior in > another -- like what some Gurus have done to evade responsibility for > obvious misdeeds and irresponsibility in "this" relative world by > claiming "absolute" freedom or "absolute" automatism/slavery (take > your pick; they're both true), or that they are just an innocent > mirror. While all of this is true, it doesn't relieve them of > accountability to maintain integrity and responsibility in this world. > > Even if one is on the "Hatred" (or "Wisdom") path of neti neti, > discarding all "outside" and arriving emptily at Self alone, this path > is probably best practiced with integrity, ALONE, BY ONESELF, for as > long as it takes, as Jed McKenna nicely recommends -- not simply to be > used as an excuse to try to wound others, vent bile, prove one's own > superiority, and deny it all later because "it is all bliss" or "it is > all the Self." > > Along the same lines, I believe it is very good to use the Mirror > analysis (as Byron Katie recommends) to realize that all is indeed a > drama of the Self, but that doesn't mean one will sit idly by while > injustice is done "out there" -- as this too is "in here." It merely > means the "charge" on our perception is removed; if action is really > necessary we will act from love or wholeness rather than from hatred > or denial. 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/
