05-25-2012, 10:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-25-2012, 10:13 PM by abstrktion.)
The Choice is the archetype that sort of started appearing in my latest painting...and I was contemplating the different understandings that have been offered--all of which appear to me to add to our collective understanding...
1) The right and left hand paths: Right: follow the crowd (stay in the Matrix) and live a "normal" life; Left: Choose freedom and essentially "death"--i.e., become as a dead man (one who knows this world and the next and lives without the desires of this world.). (Here the "left" is only "left" from the perspective of the world).
2) The right and left hand paths: Right: STO; Left: STS.
3) The Choice to "fall" into matter (i.e., incarnate here), forgetting the truth of Oneness in order to fully explore and experience the finite.
Can anyone add to my list? I'd just like a big brainstorm--what else could THE CHOICE give us for contemplation?
I think at some point, we simply won't feel much by way of need and desire, and that's when we'll know we're really "done" here--nothing else to interest us, not even the prospect of being of service.
1) The right and left hand paths: Right: follow the crowd (stay in the Matrix) and live a "normal" life; Left: Choose freedom and essentially "death"--i.e., become as a dead man (one who knows this world and the next and lives without the desires of this world.). (Here the "left" is only "left" from the perspective of the world).
2) The right and left hand paths: Right: STO; Left: STS.
3) The Choice to "fall" into matter (i.e., incarnate here), forgetting the truth of Oneness in order to fully explore and experience the finite.
Can anyone add to my list? I'd just like a big brainstorm--what else could THE CHOICE give us for contemplation?
(05-25-2012, 06:34 PM)Tenet Nosce Wrote: Isn't it wise to learn how to use these powers to improve one's own lot before spreading to others? Like in the image of the concentric circles, what we would characterize as the "negative path" is to stop at the boundary of STS and to turn away from radiating beyond that. But is there anything inherently "wrong" with attending to one's own needs and desires? How can we aid others in their needs and desires while sacrificing our own?
I think at some point, we simply won't feel much by way of need and desire, and that's when we'll know we're really "done" here--nothing else to interest us, not even the prospect of being of service.