Is meditation a STS act?

[zenmaster]

I think it's semantics. Service to self loves itself in an orange- and yellow-ray manner. This involves control and manipulation of the self; very different than green-ray love and acceptance.

The question seems to be whether orange- and yellow-ray love is really love.

The more polarization, the more love (2nd distortion), regardless of service orientation. One can feel the qualities of each center - not necessarily just as a bodily emotion (sentiment), but as an archetype (meme or principle). In 3D anyway, green-ray is that principle where there is understanding that another is allowed and understood to be the same as self under any circumstance or condition for either party. So this is the very same type or theme of love or acceptance many are seeking from their own selves. It is a sort of naked, transparent radiance of abundance.

So I'd say that it's not 'not loving self' which is STS polarized, but repression of love for self with regards to green ray.

Of course orange and yellow-ray polarization is essentially love as well. The context, however, is limited to exploration of personal-as-all. "Love and understanding, whether it be of self or of self toward other-self, is one." Just as it can be said that the STS ignores or lacks focus on green (and blue) disciplines of the personality, we can say that the STO lacks focus on orange and yellow disciplines of the personality. Each ray is an opportunity to experience the 2nd distortion, or to actualize oneself from the creator as co-creator. We can even say that the only reason that STS has power over the STO, in some circumstance, is due to the STO entity's lack of love (and vice-versa). Indeed the STO entity that is subject to the power of the STS entity is one that ignores and does not accept themselves with regards to what is offered.