04-10-2011, 12:00 AM
I'd like to make a comment here, since we're approaching the nonsense of being born something special and unique, ala Harry Potter or Neo.
First, we're all potential Buddhas, all capable of achieving the totality of self, that being a unique being in the universe, and as stated elsewhere, capable of marvelous things. One of the steps along the way would seem to be to experience being a sorcerer, another perhaps being a seer, and if you're truly unlucky, being a Nagual.
This brings to mind the four enemies don Juan mentioned: fear, power, clarity, and old age. Quite obviously, indulging in being a sorcerer/seer/Nagual equates to the second.
In my opinion, roughly coinciding with Buddhist notions, we are here to experience being here, and we do so many times until we finally get off the wheel of death and rebirth. That would support another notion, that of being able to classify soul levels dependant upon how many times a being has experienced being human, going from infant soul to old soul. In my opinion, the business of spritual evolution really only begins to become relevant when a being reaches the level of "mature soul", at which time, all the primary philosophical questions come into consideration.
The point is, no one is born anything other than another life, another learning, another opportunity to learn and to experience.
First, we're all potential Buddhas, all capable of achieving the totality of self, that being a unique being in the universe, and as stated elsewhere, capable of marvelous things. One of the steps along the way would seem to be to experience being a sorcerer, another perhaps being a seer, and if you're truly unlucky, being a Nagual.
This brings to mind the four enemies don Juan mentioned: fear, power, clarity, and old age. Quite obviously, indulging in being a sorcerer/seer/Nagual equates to the second.
In my opinion, roughly coinciding with Buddhist notions, we are here to experience being here, and we do so many times until we finally get off the wheel of death and rebirth. That would support another notion, that of being able to classify soul levels dependant upon how many times a being has experienced being human, going from infant soul to old soul. In my opinion, the business of spritual evolution really only begins to become relevant when a being reaches the level of "mature soul", at which time, all the primary philosophical questions come into consideration.
The point is, no one is born anything other than another life, another learning, another opportunity to learn and to experience.