On Feb 4, 2007, at 3:06 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
My experience over the years is that as my consciousness rises if I
spend any amount of time at all around non-meditators the majority of
them start to seem like wild animals. I guess this is because they
are
at the mercy of superficial influences which are like "lines drawn on
water or lines drawn on air" for many of us. I'm not saying that all
non-meditators are like that as there are some people who just come
into
life at a higher level of evolution than others. Nor am I positing
some
superiority thing. It's just that if you spend any time with them
beyond some casual contact they seem to go completely blindly off on
tangents that I evolved out of years ago as so can be a little
annoying
(especially if they are trying to drag you along with them).
My relatives who out of all of them only my oldest nephew learned
meditation are always "so busy" and I think "no you just aren't
able to
handle life so well any more being blown about by an increasing amount
of chaotic influences in our noisier world." We as meditators tend to
have a stable base of consciousness and the chaos of the world has
less
and less influence as our consciousness evolves.
I would like to hear other's *experience* on this and not theory.
In the Nath lineage this style of person is called a "pashu", an
ensnared one, lit. "a beast" (an animal).
Eventually I got a to point--and this was very disconcerting at
first, where I'd look at others with any attention--and I'd see
myself looking back at me. Once I realized there was no 'us and them'
the tendency to see others as objects began to fade. For me the
practice of Tonglen, giving and receiving, helps me recognize that
demarcation line, that fine line between people as objects and
everything as part of the larger body of my field of attention (which
is always changing as movement goes from environment to environment).
