(05-12-2014, 11:40 AM)Adonai One Wrote: [ -> ]Continued from: http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthrea...#pid152086
Are all things intended to be accepted as catalyst immediately or can a balanced entity abstain from certain activities and still be balanced in its desire to know the self? If the self cannot be freely given something without great pain, should it still bear the sacrifice? Is sacrifice the way and only way to progress?
There are limits that define our life. Are there not limits in the self in what it can handle? Should these not be accepted as catalyst?
I've been thinking ever since we started this discussion of you living on other-selves, why it upsets me so much. It has certainly been a catalyst!
And now it hit me - the reason to why it upsets me so much, is because I find what you do completely unacceptable, and even disrespectful towards another self.
There are times during our lives where we perhaps lose our jobs, or in some other way cannot find a way to support ourselves. We may then become dependant on other selves in order to survive, but that's not the case in this situation. In your situation, Adonai, you are being supported, and have no desire to help out with this, nor planning it. And you are healthy, strong male.
It is also different if the one who supports you has a lot of money, and then tells you "dude! We have more money than we can spend in this lifetime. Stop working, and let's do something else instead", but this is not the scenario here either.
So, to my point - can *I* accept being supported by a hard working another self and have no desire to help this person out? Can I accept this catalyst? No! I can certainly not!
I can't accept this catalyst by the same reasons as I can't accept when some people are abusing others.
So how does one proceed then towards positive polarity with so many things in this world which we find unacceptable?
And I've been thinking about this, and I came to a conclusion that some things are of negative orientation, and experiencing them would depolarize us a lot, if we are trying to walk the positive path. We don't actually have to experience all things, in order to accept them all. I don't have to abuse another self, in order to accept the fact that some other people do. And I don't have to feed off another self with no desire to contribute, in order to accept that some others do.
As Ra said here: "Thus, what would be an improper distortion with one entity is proper with another."
And that's the way it works I suppose.
Ra also said that one does not need to carry out those desires which are not consonant with the Law of One in the physical plane:
"We have found it to be inappropriate in the extreme to encourage the overcoming of any desires, except to suggest the imagination rather than the carrying out in the physical plane, as you call it, of those desires not consonant with the Law of One; this preserving the primal distortion of free will."
And I find that being supported by a hard working other self, while I am healthy and strong, and with no desire to contribute to it, is a desire which is not consonant with the Law of One. It is not a proper distortion for me.
So, to sum this up about whether there is a correct method of accepting catalyst, my opinion is that there is perhaps a polarized way of accepting catalyst? I guess that all catalyst can be accepted, with time. And since acceptance is the path of unity, it is polarizing in a positive sense. But one does not have to experience all desires in the physical plane, cause some of them are of negative or depolarizing nature.