(10-28-2012, 01:32 PM)zenmaster Wrote:(10-28-2012, 12:13 PM)spero Wrote: the first post made heavy use of the word "deserve"It's like saying the apple deserves to fall from the tree because of the nature of mass and gravity. It's an unnecessary element added to frame a something inherently neutral with some merit-based ideal. The more complexity added the more we provide to wade through, which is yet another distancing from self.
i know we kinda dismissed it later in the conversation but i was curious whether there can be such a thing as deserve....
I agree, and highly recommend that approach...to let it all be as simple as possible for our minds. I've found that the simpler I allow the truths of my existence to be within my own mind, the easier and more joyful my "coincidences" become...progress/evolution of self can be handled in such an elegantly simple and easy approach, especially when one stops defining further growth of self to be toilsome, and instead be a fun challenge.