12-30-2014, 01:43 PM
Freedom of will or to put it more simply the ability to make choices.
You may be correct that free will is the action that initiates the cause that creates distortion. Since distortion is change and change is the result of choosing to do something other than what would be a continuation of the exact now.
Is the action that becomes a cause that produces an effect negative? Or is it how a person uses free will that produces an emotional response that is considered negative?
Exercising free will is a requirement to "finding your way home". Your choosing to embrace that there is more than what appears to the five senses is you using your free will. In the Tarot, the first card is the Choice Card which signifies the exercising of free will to choose to seek out further knowledge about yourself and existence. Without that choosing then there would be no evolving, no growing, no becoming.
Our physical emotional makeup can result in us looking upon our experiences as positive or negative although they are neither. They are simply just experiences designed to help us see ourselves better. These experiences are truly gifts, gifts in the form of lessons designed to teach us about who and what we are.
We are responsible for what we experience and what happens in our "lives" as we create our own reality. I have the ability to choose my reality by how I perceive that reality.
Take for instance a common everyday situation such as a checkout clerk in a grocery store. You are standing in line and the clerk is obviously "having a bad day". They are rude and nasty to everyone that comes in front of them. I have a choice I can step in front of them and return their nastiness with nastiness or I can smile and be as nice and happy as possible.
If I react with nastiness I have let them effect my day in a less than harmonious manner. If I react with happiness, love, compassion and warmth regardless of what they may do then I have simply exercised my free will to create a better reality.
Such as situation is a lesson, an opportunity, for me to exercise my love, my desire to be STO. I cannot control whether the other self allows me to effect their day or not, I can only control how I perceive and act within the situation. Every experience we have, regardless of how insignificant, is merely a lesson, an opportunity, to learn about myself and what I am.
I am a consciousness wrapped in a third density physical wrapper. Whether I choose to allow the emotions that are part of that wrapper to toss and throw me about is strictly up to me. If I can see through the illusion to the true reality that lies beyond then I can become in each now more of the real consciousness that I AM.
Those that find themselves "mercilessly abused and enslaved" cannot be helped unless they want to be helped. If I have learned nothing in this life that is one thing that I have surely learned. As a people, we the citizens of the U.S. have failed to grasp that fact.
How can you be an advocate for those who you perceive as having their free will infringed if you are unwilling to exercise your own free will? Are you not just as enslaved as those you seek to serve? Is not your enslaver your own self?
If "freedom of will" actually the problem or could it be something else? What if it is that lessons you must participate in have escalated to the "in your face" point simply to get you to "see" what you need to learn?
As we travel through life we are given increasingly more intense experiences as lessons. As a toddler we are told not to touch the light bulb because it is hot. We are told this repeatedly but because we choose not to accept the lesson given in that manner we at some point physical touch the bulb and then understand what "the bulb is hot" truly means.
Our lives are filled with gentle experiences designed to allow us to learn the lessons we have selected for ourselves. However, until we grasp that they are lessons and start to view them as such those lessons have to become more and more severe in nature just to get our attention.
As our focus changes does the lessons change? No, we simply perceive, "see", them differently and choose to react to them in a different manner. The resulting effect is that we no longer have the same emotional turmoil associated with them that we once did. The loss of that emotional turmoil allows us to reach higher and higher.
Asa
You may be correct that free will is the action that initiates the cause that creates distortion. Since distortion is change and change is the result of choosing to do something other than what would be a continuation of the exact now.
Is the action that becomes a cause that produces an effect negative? Or is it how a person uses free will that produces an emotional response that is considered negative?
Exercising free will is a requirement to "finding your way home". Your choosing to embrace that there is more than what appears to the five senses is you using your free will. In the Tarot, the first card is the Choice Card which signifies the exercising of free will to choose to seek out further knowledge about yourself and existence. Without that choosing then there would be no evolving, no growing, no becoming.
Our physical emotional makeup can result in us looking upon our experiences as positive or negative although they are neither. They are simply just experiences designed to help us see ourselves better. These experiences are truly gifts, gifts in the form of lessons designed to teach us about who and what we are.
We are responsible for what we experience and what happens in our "lives" as we create our own reality. I have the ability to choose my reality by how I perceive that reality.
Take for instance a common everyday situation such as a checkout clerk in a grocery store. You are standing in line and the clerk is obviously "having a bad day". They are rude and nasty to everyone that comes in front of them. I have a choice I can step in front of them and return their nastiness with nastiness or I can smile and be as nice and happy as possible.
If I react with nastiness I have let them effect my day in a less than harmonious manner. If I react with happiness, love, compassion and warmth regardless of what they may do then I have simply exercised my free will to create a better reality.
Such as situation is a lesson, an opportunity, for me to exercise my love, my desire to be STO. I cannot control whether the other self allows me to effect their day or not, I can only control how I perceive and act within the situation. Every experience we have, regardless of how insignificant, is merely a lesson, an opportunity, to learn about myself and what I am.
I am a consciousness wrapped in a third density physical wrapper. Whether I choose to allow the emotions that are part of that wrapper to toss and throw me about is strictly up to me. If I can see through the illusion to the true reality that lies beyond then I can become in each now more of the real consciousness that I AM.
Those that find themselves "mercilessly abused and enslaved" cannot be helped unless they want to be helped. If I have learned nothing in this life that is one thing that I have surely learned. As a people, we the citizens of the U.S. have failed to grasp that fact.
How can you be an advocate for those who you perceive as having their free will infringed if you are unwilling to exercise your own free will? Are you not just as enslaved as those you seek to serve? Is not your enslaver your own self?
If "freedom of will" actually the problem or could it be something else? What if it is that lessons you must participate in have escalated to the "in your face" point simply to get you to "see" what you need to learn?
As we travel through life we are given increasingly more intense experiences as lessons. As a toddler we are told not to touch the light bulb because it is hot. We are told this repeatedly but because we choose not to accept the lesson given in that manner we at some point physical touch the bulb and then understand what "the bulb is hot" truly means.
Our lives are filled with gentle experiences designed to allow us to learn the lessons we have selected for ourselves. However, until we grasp that they are lessons and start to view them as such those lessons have to become more and more severe in nature just to get our attention.
As our focus changes does the lessons change? No, we simply perceive, "see", them differently and choose to react to them in a different manner. The resulting effect is that we no longer have the same emotional turmoil associated with them that we once did. The loss of that emotional turmoil allows us to reach higher and higher.
Asa