03-22-2011, 12:43 AM
Regarding (1), I would say that it is within our free will to remain asleep and this would certainly not be a mistake. It has been my suspicion that those of us with longer and more arduous paths also offer a richer learning experience to intelligent infinity, like wine or cheese that has been aged for a long time. The motivation for making one's path shorter, on the other hand, might have to do with the desire to feel the power of intelligent infinity, and the suffering and darkness involved in our present condition. I have a hard time thinking of it as being a service to intelligent infinity to drag out one's path. Since there is an infinite amount of material to experience, we really have no time to waste.