(08-26-2015, 01:28 PM)Diana Wrote: I think the fundamental difference in our thinking is a passive vs. and active approach to evolution. I don't disagree with you in your views. But they are based on just "being" with the all, whereas I am more prone to "creating."
I understand the idea that "all is perfect as is." From a certain perspective, this idea is very true. And yet, inherent in this universe is the impulse to evolve. This can be observed everywhere. Perhaps this is a red herring, but I don't think so. So if there is an energetic, or underlying, urge to grow, expand, evolve, then to just see everything as perfect can be thought of as acceptance. But acceptance does not mean you just sit back and let everything be as it is because you accept it. Given that there may be a universal tendency to evolve, then inherent within that idea is creation, or to create. Making conscious choices, and not just flowing with what is, can be seen as participating consciously in that evolution, by creating.
This idea can get very muddied. There are paradoxes to unravel (or accept) such as: I accept things as they are, but I want to change them. But I don't see this as paradoxical. To put it into mundane terms, I see it as proactive. I may accept that things are as they are here, as I understand what this place is and how it got this way; but my desire to see a kinder world on Earth and be able to visualize that is part of the process of creation.
I do agree with pretty much everything you said. I'd just say that I explore my "creational-drive" as Co-Creator by exploring each day my inner-self.
I think one of the main point that is over-looked is that I never disminished being vegan and also said a few times (although not recently) that I do believe it will eventually become my call.
Right now I do not feel called to do so in my current circumstances and my intuition tells me that my habits are guided in not creating further harm to a living being than what already is done. I do not feel bad about eating what already has been sacrified as part of one's experiences on his path and see eating meat as interacting with 1D foodstuff and not 2D animals.
I am ever open that in my ever-ongoing transformation, I can come to be moved in different ways than my current ones.