10-09-2011, 11:45 AM
(10-09-2011, 11:16 AM)unity100 Wrote:(10-09-2011, 11:09 AM)zenmaster Wrote:(10-09-2011, 09:39 AM)unity100 Wrote:I am 100% certain that I fail to see things because of scholastic academic education heritage (and racial mind). I know this because there was a lot to unlearn after school when intuition suggested a deeper meaning was more compelling, for example. Education provides a significant part of one's worldview. Our reality emerges into our awareness from this worldview.(10-09-2011, 02:03 AM)zenmaster Wrote: You must be new here. Every other post is about 'signs of change' and digging for evidence of such, as if that evidence would somehow be crucial as an important validation. lol.then again maybe you are failing to see things because you are forcing whatever you learn to be compliant and congruent with your perspective of your scholastic academic education heritage.
most unfortunately this assessment is correct.
despite it should have been totally to the opposite in fact. inventors vs academicians. one side there is a lot of intuition leading an inquiring mind, on the other side bureaucrats cataloging, shuffling and reshuffling what was previously learned and written.
being aware of that is a major step though. then should come refusal of the mindset that is associated with the undesired approach. a rebellion, if you will.
Conversely, I also know that I would fail to see things if I missed the opportunities provided by that learning. We can only apprehend that which we are prepared to accept, both socially and individually.
(10-09-2011, 11:16 AM)unity100 Wrote:The mind can be "set free". But freedom and opportunity are different things. Opportunity must be provided in order for that freedom to find use. This is an ongoing experiment where we can and do provide such opportunity to ourselves and other-selves. The "blame game" becomes ridiculous once it is known that the patterns which we create in time/space are of our own making ("reality" unfolds from what has been made possible, not from what was thought to be denied) and that, as J. Krishnamurti said, the individual and society are the same thing.Quote:Our expectations are formed from what we think is possible. Such limits are taught (explicitly or not). Some part of ourselves knows there is something more, and when we contact that part we are in a position to manifest it. That is the primary reason for the pace of "evolution", the opportunities we bother to provide ourselves, not those which we perceived were denied to ourselves from the "PTB". That reacting or opposing mode of consciousness comes from a place of lack, and is capable of only addressing lack (and associated bitterness). But, initially it seems that we must make some level noise in order to hear ourselves.
instead all of these can be dumped, the mind can be set free as it has been at the start, and intuition after observation can be allowed to led the wandering mind into unknown territories to discovery.
In the process of understanding this relationship, we always find something to reject that symbolizes the "old way". The dissatisfaction must be externalized in order to find expression, because we have not yet consciously created the would-be "new way" (something perceived to be better). In effect, because we have not bothered to come up with a new way, we are asking the old way to explain what this new way might be. The baby tends to unconsciously test the parent with its tantrums, and in this way learn something.