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I've got one shot and I can't lose.

A year ago I took a step into shallow darkness and tread not so lightly into the dark Night of the Soul.  I stopped meditating knowing the consequences.  I welcomed madness unconsciously as I prepared as best I could for it going into it.

I could...Go through my Forum activity...and probably point out how deep I got into just, JUST, my own darkness!  I could quote my own insanity.   Quote my own rage and hatred and anger at ALL.  I could bolden and italicize all the importance and moments of obscurity and horror I was feeling inside just myself...

Lets face it.  I've seen the darkness and it saw me because We're the same.  But in so far as potential.  I stopped visiting the Courtyard.  Bid Au revoir to my shadow self (who at the time was, WAS an entity I identified as myself and separate and me in all ways) and have since only sparsely met with him.

As the Courtyard of the Heart is forgotten the Subconscious eats it up like nature grows in the Fukushima Exclusion Zone.  I realized the turmoil I've been feeling is NOT my mind losing it, but of the courtyard going feral.  Of my darkness growing to match me (he said trying not to sound arrogant), of my Heart-Mind becoming once more, unhappy, unknown.

In my meditations i recently realized I am again undefined by lack of self knowledge.  What I used to know was enough, I have evolved and not kept up with the discovery.  The Courtyard being feral, it is now the Stormy Madness I silence with meditation (or better said, I keep away the waves of thoughts that churn the air and make storms).  Or basically I am in need of self healing (I mean, duh).

My heart is...  Sad.  It saw a lot, I saw a lot.  Disappointed in my/itself.  Sad at the darkness.  Just infinite sorrow, endless sorrow.  I see and feel so much misery in the world.  And being unable to help that is PAINFUL.  Is the source of my being tired.  All these new monsters I am/have inside my courtyard.  In only a year of not meditating, of not addressing, and approaching reality from a quiet still place.

Missed it much.  To think something you know will anger you and meeting it with calm and almost loving acceptance despite knowing it should, is supposed to, upset you and invoke emotion.

I view every monster as a piece of my shadow, I view it all as my inner being.  I last said I had about 16807 personality pieces from a prior shatter, that healed, all these voices are myself in my mind with an illness of disassociation.  That ended too, now the 'voices' are 'silent feelings'. They're intuition distorted into words through my thoughts.  The silent version of them is much more efficient and greatly less disturbing.

You can listen too much, as if to say moving towards listening is to obscure yourself (a zen proverb of sorts?)

To just let them flow through, to not listen but simply notice.

I wanted to share.  I don't think it'll be as easy as 'no more madness/Darkness' and many strong dark emotions have surfaced, just as I was warned when taking back up meditation.  (Most notable in porn...vore tentacle hentai genres are the current interesting 'interest' of my perverse mind, as an example.)  And I figure if I say anything stupid, link me back to this thread and just be like, "<link to this thread> , do you need some lavendudes or broses, a mankin or tissdude?? (Lavendars, roses, napkin, tissue for those lost)  Light'en up TPP!"

And that is lesson 1 for me.   Lighten up.

Don't let monsters rule your Courtyard, don't let darkness sour your Heart, don't let your Heart-Mind become turbulent.

Or do, but keep a handle on it.  Madness don't feel good, even when it does.

And by Heart-Mind, I mean that portion of your conscious perception attributed to the neural systems of the Heart offering a different 'Consciousness Resource', like how we attribute Logic to Brain-Mind, emotional/mental stability or Emotional Logic belongs to the Heart-Mind, a much quieter Loving resource.
(11-03-2015, 07:33 AM)The_Tired_Philosopher Wrote: [ -> ]And by Heart-Mind, I mean that portion of your conscious perception attributed to the neural systems of the Heart offering a different 'Consciousness Resource', like how we attribute Logic to Brain-Mind, emotional/mental stability or Emotional Logic belongs to the Heart-Mind, a much quieter Loving resource.

so you are aware when you are switching between these different faculties of processing your experience?
Not exactly, its more like my...mind...thinks.  That I can operate them but in reality my energy system isn't in a state of openheartedness.  So I try to 'be' it but that is very temporary as I'm just not seated right to be it.

I was basically my true self before I came to this forum, the Ra Material really moved me, shifted me, it was all just so darn magical.  I brushed off scathing insults and exuberated love and kindness.  I was so filled with energy and so motivated to do and be and perform more work in Consciousness.  Now I'm a bit frazzled, dazed and shocked, confused.  Very confused.

I miss it.  Where I loved my plants so much I conversated with them, where my cat would gaze into my eyes and just purr from me smiling.  I feel like I've let my self down, when apparently its natural.
I've reached a pretty good balancing point in regards to my darker impulses, also mostly thanks to video games. Although in my case, I usually blow off steam by committing atrocities in GTA IV and V. Or occasionally replaying an RPG like the KOTOR games and deliberately doing an all-evil playthrough.

(Although funnily enough, I can't bring myself to be a bastard in Skyrim because the world is too believable for me.)

Self-acceptance plays a big role in spiritual development, and for me at least, that means reckoning with and accepting that I do have a darker side which is just another part of me. I've found that trying to repress it completely usually leads to energetic blockages, whereas if I just 'let go' sometimes and have a rocket rampage in Los Santos, I feel a lot better afterwards.

But then again, when I'm not in a bad mood, I'll often just go cruising around LS to explore the city, and even follow traffic laws and such. I actually find the recent GTAs fascinating specifically because you can basically be as bad OR as good as you want.