09-04-2011, 12:00 AM
Likewise a good point about distractions...you are welcome, and thank you.
quantumshaman wrote:BarefootInTheSand Wrote...
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Good and bad are concepts and exist only in the minds. The lines are arbitrary...bending to suit the holder and the current context.
...you might think that you have broken free of some pardigmal concept in performing some act of magic only to find yourself trapped by yet another paradigmal concept of black or white magic...
Yet, until one is free of the hold of conceptual thinking...free from life inside one's mental creations...one has only ever tasted their mind.These are the fundamental concepts which I feel are crucial to the warror's path, yet it often seems that whenever they are brought up, there is a sometimes-subtle, sometimes-obvious movement to shift attention away from what is, in the end, the core of the so-called "secret" to spiritual evolution.
As long as the world at large can distract the warrior with talk of other things, these fundamental concepts go ignored, glossed over, swept under the rug. While talk turns to psychobabble, while ego flares its wings, while we talk of our beliefs and struggle to defend them... the clock is ticking... and those fundamenal elements are still there, waiting to be confronted.
The rest is just window dressing.
Kudos, Barefoot, for *seeing* what needs to be said.
quantumshaman wrote:BarefootInTheSand Wrote...
______________
Good and bad are concepts and exist only in the minds. The lines are arbitrary...bending to suit the holder and the current context.
...you might think that you have broken free of some pardigmal concept in performing some act of magic only to find yourself trapped by yet another paradigmal concept of black or white magic...
Yet, until one is free of the hold of conceptual thinking...free from life inside one's mental creations...one has only ever tasted their mind.These are the fundamental concepts which I feel are crucial to the warror's path, yet it often seems that whenever they are brought up, there is a sometimes-subtle, sometimes-obvious movement to shift attention away from what is, in the end, the core of the so-called "secret" to spiritual evolution.
As long as the world at large can distract the warrior with talk of other things, these fundamental concepts go ignored, glossed over, swept under the rug. While talk turns to psychobabble, while ego flares its wings, while we talk of our beliefs and struggle to defend them... the clock is ticking... and those fundamenal elements are still there, waiting to be confronted.
The rest is just window dressing.
Kudos, Barefoot, for *seeing* what needs to be said.