07-03-2010, 12:00 AM
Well, I tremendously appreciate your gesture in creating this site. Forums are one form of interacting that allow aspects to come out that would likely not emerge normally in daily interactions, and when these aspects do come out they can be witnessed and supported or changed, shared and transformed or transform. This all contributes to understanding freedom and how to obtain it, finally obtaining it.
Relating to the story, we can experience both wolfs and then have to make a decision which direction to proceed. Many times we have the dual awareness of 1.doing something to further self-interest or 2. doing something to further altruistic purposes, the decisions we make leaves a mark that is like a spot of reflection for the "I" and serves to reinforce that I. Of course, in Toltec terms, we seek to make the "I" as ephemeral as possible, because the I (self-importance) cannot survive infinity's pressure, its the same in Buddhism (the I prevents freedom) but there it is said in the reverse, that the I is the center point for identity within cyclic existence, and to realize the illusions of the I ends cyclic exisitence and freedom is entered.
I agree religions and such have to be let go of, and much much more. Such as, if letting go becomes too much an act of I then I is being built up in another way, "I am achieving on the path, I am formless etc". So its a very ephemeral understanding of I that we cultivate.
"I am formless" is a contradiction anyway. How can I be formless and still be I, lol. To say "well, then, I am not really I" still not true, still seated in I. To abhor I , also not good, then an anti-I perspective is created that's just as bad. I is just a part of what this experience is, realizing its a component of infinity (phenomena), this is liberation. It ends the exclusive identity with I.
Infinity has become a term misconstrued because of the way it was presented in CC's books. Its imagined as "out there" but if its infinity it is everywhere because its scope is infinite.
Relating to the story, we can experience both wolfs and then have to make a decision which direction to proceed. Many times we have the dual awareness of 1.doing something to further self-interest or 2. doing something to further altruistic purposes, the decisions we make leaves a mark that is like a spot of reflection for the "I" and serves to reinforce that I. Of course, in Toltec terms, we seek to make the "I" as ephemeral as possible, because the I (self-importance) cannot survive infinity's pressure, its the same in Buddhism (the I prevents freedom) but there it is said in the reverse, that the I is the center point for identity within cyclic existence, and to realize the illusions of the I ends cyclic exisitence and freedom is entered.
I agree religions and such have to be let go of, and much much more. Such as, if letting go becomes too much an act of I then I is being built up in another way, "I am achieving on the path, I am formless etc". So its a very ephemeral understanding of I that we cultivate.
"I am formless" is a contradiction anyway. How can I be formless and still be I, lol. To say "well, then, I am not really I" still not true, still seated in I. To abhor I , also not good, then an anti-I perspective is created that's just as bad. I is just a part of what this experience is, realizing its a component of infinity (phenomena), this is liberation. It ends the exclusive identity with I.
Infinity has become a term misconstrued because of the way it was presented in CC's books. Its imagined as "out there" but if its infinity it is everywhere because its scope is infinite.