01-25-2007, 12:00 AM
"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."
You can bring a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. This is part of the problem. Not just ignorance, but loving to live in that ignorance.
Don Juan said; "No one is doing anything to anybody."
If everyone looked at life's circumstances as lessons instead of looking for someone to blame for those circumstances, it would be a better world. Most wars would not happen. Most psychological disorders would dissappear. And more people would "get along" better.
In the end, we don't have any control over other people's points of view. That leaves only us and those we can have some influence with.
We say what we think and let the chips fall where they may.
Some will change.,, (I include myself in this group, though I still have a lot of growing to do), and maybe this does something to the whole collective of mankind. Bob
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."
You can bring a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. This is part of the problem. Not just ignorance, but loving to live in that ignorance.
Don Juan said; "No one is doing anything to anybody."
If everyone looked at life's circumstances as lessons instead of looking for someone to blame for those circumstances, it would be a better world. Most wars would not happen. Most psychological disorders would dissappear. And more people would "get along" better.
In the end, we don't have any control over other people's points of view. That leaves only us and those we can have some influence with.
We say what we think and let the chips fall where they may.
Some will change.,, (I include myself in this group, though I still have a lot of growing to do), and maybe this does something to the whole collective of mankind. Bob