01-24-2007, 12:00 AM
Quote:Ultimately, we are not individual. Thus for me, the question does not compute! Ha!
So, true we don't exist separately! One has had a fleeting glimpse on occasion "I don't exist!"
Yet if the Mother gave us this realization of oneness and there also spontaneously arises the percpeptio of the reality of suffering of fellow beings, there is (in me anyway) this desire to help.
But there is also at the same time the realization that Ignorance is what keeps people at the level of suffering they are at.
For example, I might see a bum and try to help him out, and if I gave him a lot of money, he would just buy a hooker and some drugs, and be back in the gutter the next day.
So clearly that is not the sort of help that is needed here.
And the bum is responsible for creating his mess, as I am of mine. Yet the condition of the ignorant is that reality appears to be so very dense that it's solid. While for the more evoloved I think it is less so.
Althought every so often the "Fleeting Two by Four of Ultimate Realization", reminds me of the solidity of this fluid and spacious infinite universe.
So, true we don't exist separately! One has had a fleeting glimpse on occasion "I don't exist!"
Yet if the Mother gave us this realization of oneness and there also spontaneously arises the percpeptio of the reality of suffering of fellow beings, there is (in me anyway) this desire to help.
But there is also at the same time the realization that Ignorance is what keeps people at the level of suffering they are at.
For example, I might see a bum and try to help him out, and if I gave him a lot of money, he would just buy a hooker and some drugs, and be back in the gutter the next day.
So clearly that is not the sort of help that is needed here.
And the bum is responsible for creating his mess, as I am of mine. Yet the condition of the ignorant is that reality appears to be so very dense that it's solid. While for the more evoloved I think it is less so.
Althought every so often the "Fleeting Two by Four of Ultimate Realization", reminds me of the solidity of this fluid and spacious infinite universe.