11-09-2014, 12:00 AM
Billy,
Quietism certainly has many parallels throughout all cultures yes?
And they all seem to share a similar theme of eradicating the ego. Indeed it seems that his endeavor can sometimes lead to obsessive compulsive aberrations that come from misunderstanding WHY anyone would want to do this in the first place.
If a warrior 'sees' they would know that to be absorbed with our own self, language, inventory, and personal history, is to be stuck like rats in a cage, wandering from one wall of the mind to the next. To the rat all of his reality and all he would ever know is the cage, so if he were a reasonable rat he would consider his world, the cage, very important indeed.
However, if the rat were a warrior he would consider the cage more of a labyrinth, or puzzle to be solved, as his curiosity about whether there is more out there is so intense . When the rat learns to see, or escapes the cage, or solves the maze, then he begins to realize that the cage or maze, which is all of the world he has ever known, is not that important at all!
To warriors the mind is a labyrinth with the unknown, the magic, somewhere in there to be discovered. It is self importance that is the brick and mortar of this labyrinth that she is challenged to solve. Either he solves or, or she cheats and jumps over the wall where she sees the labyrinth for all it really is...and finds himself in an immensity beyond imagination open for endless exploration.
Of course running his head against the walls over and over would be a bit self-abusive, another form of stupid aberration that says 'look at me, I am working on destroying my ego!!'
Quietism certainly has many parallels throughout all cultures yes?
And they all seem to share a similar theme of eradicating the ego. Indeed it seems that his endeavor can sometimes lead to obsessive compulsive aberrations that come from misunderstanding WHY anyone would want to do this in the first place.
If a warrior 'sees' they would know that to be absorbed with our own self, language, inventory, and personal history, is to be stuck like rats in a cage, wandering from one wall of the mind to the next. To the rat all of his reality and all he would ever know is the cage, so if he were a reasonable rat he would consider his world, the cage, very important indeed.
However, if the rat were a warrior he would consider the cage more of a labyrinth, or puzzle to be solved, as his curiosity about whether there is more out there is so intense . When the rat learns to see, or escapes the cage, or solves the maze, then he begins to realize that the cage or maze, which is all of the world he has ever known, is not that important at all!
To warriors the mind is a labyrinth with the unknown, the magic, somewhere in there to be discovered. It is self importance that is the brick and mortar of this labyrinth that she is challenged to solve. Either he solves or, or she cheats and jumps over the wall where she sees the labyrinth for all it really is...and finds himself in an immensity beyond imagination open for endless exploration.
Of course running his head against the walls over and over would be a bit self-abusive, another form of stupid aberration that says 'look at me, I am working on destroying my ego!!'