05-20-2014, 06:04 AM
(05-18-2014, 08:15 PM)Adonai One Wrote: I will accept anything that happens. Does that answer your question?
I accept the resulting desires of pain, pleasure and whatever comes my way. In this context, I am without seperation. I am everything that will occur. This is what eternity does in its default state. To reach this state one simply must consistently acknowledge it. This is enlightenment, this is the state of no seperation. We are all things, every tiny emotion and potential. Why not embrace it all?
Embracing even what we cannot bear is true freedom.
I would work a job of pain if I had to but I choose not to. Tell me why I should go against myself?
Actually, would you work a job of happiness if you had to? Would you work a job of happiness if you didn't have to?
Also, speaking of eternity - a month or a year compared to an eternity is like measuring nothing against the ocean. In light of this, you could well afford working long enough to gain deep experience with a job. Somehwere between 1-4 years would be a good start.
Saying that your time is consumed by job and therefore unwanted is, to me, saying you don't really perceive this eternity in your life.
This would be allright as it's the most prevalent view of things.
Sometimes we also have to learn to accept things we did not originally desire and be taught how these things can be what we did desire. The 'problem' is that the only way to understand this is to experience it.
To embrace what you cannot bear is, as you say, a way of understanding true freedom.