--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Rory, I'll bet you a buck you can't express what
> you want to say here without resorting to the use
> of terms implying intentionality, conscious choice
> ("deciding," "making," "denying," "believing").
Quite right; enlightenment consists (in part) in taking
responsibility for one's own perceptions; in making a conscious
choice to bless ourselves and our World unconditionally, thereby
taking the perfection of the World into our heart, and infusing it
thoroughly with our being, with our Self.
> In any case, with posts on this topic, from now on
> I will read no further than the first word implying
> some sort of intentionality. If you have any desire
> to communicate with me about this, you'll have to
> figure out how to do it without using any such
> terms, because I find them disrespectful, insulting,
> and hostile.
That's your choice, of course -- or not-choice, if you prefer :-)
I do wonder why you associate the idea of intentionality and
responsibility with disrespect and hostility -- is it because you
equate "responsibility" with "blame"? This is not what I mean. I am
not "blaming" you for your ignorance and suffering, nor am I
implying that you have been consciously choosing it. No one
consciously chooses to suffer.
I am only saying that if you wish to *escape* suffering, you must
allow that which has been *unconscious* to *become* conscious. Old
pain will inevitably arise in this process; it is asking to be
attended to, to be healed. If this time we *eat* it, digest or
assimilate it with simple attention -- "this too is OK; it is part
of wholeness" -- and with breath, we allow that old pain to
finally "die" and reintegrate into the harmony of our greater whole,
freeing up all the energy that went into keeping that part of
ourselves not-OK and "exiled". The Absolute (our consciousness) has
now moved to where it was not; we have consequently grown in love
(sat) and light (chit) and laughter (ananda)!
:-)
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