08-02-2011, 08:45 PM
(08-02-2011, 12:41 PM)turtledude23 Wrote: I wonder sometimes (and perhaps Zen and Unity can empathize with me on this) why I'm so inclined to rational analysis of everything and having so little emotion, its very hard for me to feel compassion for someone in front of me, but easier to feel compassion for an idea (e.g. a genocide or famine) or an animal. These are traits which serve STS better. I wonder if I was of a negative path in previous incarnations.I think it's fairly easy to see where your own service-orientation bias is, within this incarnation.
As Ra said, "Many use the trunk and roots of mind as if that portion of mind were a badly used, prostituted entity. Then this entity gains from this great storehouse that which is rough, prostituted, and without great virtue. Those who turn to the deep mind, seeing it in the guise of the maiden, go forth to court it. The courtship has nothing of plunder in its semblance and may be protracted, yet the treasure gained by such careful courtship is great. The right-hand and left-hand transformations of the mind may be seen to differ by the attitude of the conscious mind towards its own resources as well as the resources of other-selves.
We now speak of that genie, or elemental, or mythic figure, culturally determined, which sends the arrow to the left-hand transformation. This arrow is not the arrow which kills but rather that which, in its own way, protects. Those who choose separation, that being the quality most indicative of the left-hand path, are protected from other-selves by a strength and sharpness equivalent to the degree of transformation which the mind has experienced in the negative sense. Those upon the right-hand path have no such protection against other-selves for upon that path the doughty seeker shall find many mirrors for reflection in each other-self it encounters."
The analytical mind is a indeed one that works through a process of separating. But it's not necessarily separation of self, from self. Or of separation of self from other self. Being rational is not intrinsically dominating or controlling, even though it may seem that way due to the manner in which one works with the illusion to create further abstractions which are necessarily circumstantial and exclusionary to a 'whole' or the 100% complementary feeling point of view.
It's sort of a fool-proof system in that what can be made viable, from the logos, is necessarily part of ourselves either currently or potentionally. We are here to learn and share what we know and any honest depiction of what one knows is going to be useful.