05-06-2009, 01:52 AM
(03-13-2009, 08:42 PM)ubergud Wrote: If we humbly accept ourselves as perfect, then simply being IS being in service. Breathing, experiencing, loving ...
Allow me to try and take this one step further (for the excercise ;D); we need not even be humble, I think.
Ultimately, all that exists is One, correct? ...and this perfect state of unity is also the perfect STO, correct? Service to All - Self and Others as One and the Same (hehe, SA-SOOS!). If these things are true, then it seems naturally that the simple act of existing is STO! At the ultimate, unified level of things even STO and STS become one and the same. If so, the only way to NOT be STO is to not exist, but without existence, there is no Self, and therefore no STS, either.
The low-level reason for this, if we don't look at it from the Unity perspective, is that by simply existing, we provide a learning experience for others, completely regardless of whether we are selfish or selfless. This is a perfect STO act regardless of our intentions.
Maybe we need to add a new category: STN - Service To No-one
The only act that would fit this category would be to intentionally cease to exist, which is no different from never existing at all.
So, my condensed answer: To be is to be in service.