--- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> YES! This is what I meant when I said there is a place inside
where
> the Purusha deeply hates and fears the Prakriti, and vice versa.
> Coming upon the Purusha's utterly helpless imprisonment within the
> bodymind-world-prakriti stymied me for a moment, as this seemed to
be
> the ultimate demonic Hell. Then I remembered the approach which
has
> generally worked for me in the past: When I meet a demon, I
embrace
> it. Since the demon here seemed to be the whole of physical
creation,
> I embraced it. Wow! Just under that horror of separation/hate was
the
> passionate Understanding of the intimacy of the world as my body,
as
> my LOVE!
>
> *L*L*L*
>
This is a process I go through continually, and I find it the most
instructive to challenge and resolve those feelings of revulsion I
feel the strongest. It is easy for all of us to continue to love
that which we naturally love; babies, flowers, a blue sky, and yet
we are constantly given the opportunity, the sign-post, to be
pointed at those elements of Creation which we detest, simply
because that negative attraction is so strong, that when confronted
by it, we either reinforce our dislike of that, and in turn
reinforce our boundaries, literally, or find a way, a strategy, a
breakthrough on how to incorporate that which we have so disliked
and find that rather than it being the proverbial brick wall, behind
the brick wall, beyond that nasty person, that barking dog, that
sinful President, lies a doorway to infinitely greater and fuller
worlds. Not in a facile, "oh I forgive you" way that has been
mouthed emptily for so long, but rather a genuine acceptance and
full integration of that which challenges us so greatly, to the
point where an honest appraisal of ourselves has to be squarely
modified; we are not the nice person we think we are when faced with
such challenges presented to us on the silver platter of the Divine.
Rather, they bring out the worst in us, and it is then that the
golden opportunity occurs, to love that which we reject and find a
way to a greater self-definition of ourselves, enriching our lives
at the expense of nothing. What else is life, if not this?
