01-18-2008, 12:01 AM
Quote:How can stopping the world help us in daily life?
This is a wonderful question!
"Stopping the World" is an experience that perhaps we recognize after the fact, as Bob so aptly put, through recognition of parable and analogy.
If our motivation and intention is right, then we naturally want to help other people. We may want to do this but we may not have the means or know how. We don't feel true compassion for anyone as we are too absorbed in our own problems.
When we start out in life, unless we are incredibly fortunate, we identify with our problems and sufferings and blame others for our situation.
One of the least understood parables of Jesus was ...
Quote:How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the mote out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? ... first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye."
In other words, work on yourself ...
Most of us, quite frankly don't live in Reality. We live in a Matrix-like fabrication of reality that we take as reality. And we are too proud to question it.
We might want to wake up, but we haven't a clue. Our attempts at meditation are a sham as we haven't the first idea of what to do.
If however through some miracle of unimaginable conditions, the impossible occurs and we have a glimpse of Objective Reality we can then we can begin to "know", that is experientially cognize the truth as it happens from moment to moment.
So... personally, prior to my own experience, I had no clue.
Now, as is often the case, I still have no clue. It's just that now I ... I know, that I don't know.
If you know you don't know, you know. You know?
It's a paradox, that's why I make a joke of it.
Really the path starts with a glimpse of Truth. Stopping the World is the point where one's identification shifts. For a moment at least, we no longer believe we are who we think we were. But a moment is all it takes!
The first step is to admit you don't have any idea, to open up and question.
But I have a notion, Truth is out there looking for you as well.
This is a wonderful question!
"Stopping the World" is an experience that perhaps we recognize after the fact, as Bob so aptly put, through recognition of parable and analogy.
If our motivation and intention is right, then we naturally want to help other people. We may want to do this but we may not have the means or know how. We don't feel true compassion for anyone as we are too absorbed in our own problems.
When we start out in life, unless we are incredibly fortunate, we identify with our problems and sufferings and blame others for our situation.
One of the least understood parables of Jesus was ...
Quote:How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the mote out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? ... first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye."
In other words, work on yourself ...
Most of us, quite frankly don't live in Reality. We live in a Matrix-like fabrication of reality that we take as reality. And we are too proud to question it.
We might want to wake up, but we haven't a clue. Our attempts at meditation are a sham as we haven't the first idea of what to do.
If however through some miracle of unimaginable conditions, the impossible occurs and we have a glimpse of Objective Reality we can then we can begin to "know", that is experientially cognize the truth as it happens from moment to moment.
So... personally, prior to my own experience, I had no clue.
Now, as is often the case, I still have no clue. It's just that now I ... I know, that I don't know.
If you know you don't know, you know. You know?
It's a paradox, that's why I make a joke of it.
Really the path starts with a glimpse of Truth. Stopping the World is the point where one's identification shifts. For a moment at least, we no longer believe we are who we think we were. But a moment is all it takes!
The first step is to admit you don't have any idea, to open up and question.
But I have a notion, Truth is out there looking for you as well.