03-13-2010, 12:00 AM
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“If you can remain steadfast in your abstaining from negative feelings towards others, then all living creatures will cease to feel enmity towards you.”
Patanjali, Yoga Sutras
A logic bound mind is the same as a muscle-bound body; ineffective in a situation that requires flexibility of action. For a mind to be free, it must not be too tied to logic.
Logic is to the mind what muscle is to the body. It is the muscle of the mind that gives power to discriminate between what works and what doesn’t. But all of knowledge is sourced through logic, and is but a tip of the iceberg of the wisdom available to mankind.
Logic, like muscle, is very useful in daily life, but taken as an end in itself, and using it to support a personal agenda, severely limits available opportunity.
Disbelief actually works in the same way as belief. We arrive at both through logical deduction. Disbelieving is believing in the impossibility of a thing because there is no logical possibility of it being so (within the sphere of our particular experience).
However, availability to all possibility says that we must be free to act without belief, or disbelief – neither believing nor disbelieving, because these are essentially the same.
In Dreams, we can fly like a bird, breathe under water like a fish, and even pass through walls. These are examples of suspending disbelief. Loving our enemy, in spite of his obvious perfidy, persevering at a task when failure seems immanent, these are examples of suspending disbelief.
Walking on hot coals and not burning the feet, or staring at the sun and not harming your eyes are exercises in this regard. Ultimately, of course there is no need for us to test ourselves, self-consciously, because the Universe is already doing it at every moment.
However, we use self-conscious testing at times because it can awaken us to what is going on around us, when otherwise we might remain ignorant of the great opportunities available to us through suspension of disbelief.
We must learn to let go of disbelief.
This gives us the ability to act without motive – from a state of emptiness or freedom. This then is true action, unpremeditated.
Living in the relative world is like going to the movies; suspending disbelief just like children playing.
Let me be quiet now.
“If you can remain steadfast in your abstaining from negative feelings towards others, then all living creatures will cease to feel enmity towards you.”
Patanjali, Yoga Sutras
A logic bound mind is the same as a muscle-bound body; ineffective in a situation that requires flexibility of action. For a mind to be free, it must not be too tied to logic.
Logic is to the mind what muscle is to the body. It is the muscle of the mind that gives power to discriminate between what works and what doesn’t. But all of knowledge is sourced through logic, and is but a tip of the iceberg of the wisdom available to mankind.
Logic, like muscle, is very useful in daily life, but taken as an end in itself, and using it to support a personal agenda, severely limits available opportunity.
Disbelief actually works in the same way as belief. We arrive at both through logical deduction. Disbelieving is believing in the impossibility of a thing because there is no logical possibility of it being so (within the sphere of our particular experience).
However, availability to all possibility says that we must be free to act without belief, or disbelief – neither believing nor disbelieving, because these are essentially the same.
In Dreams, we can fly like a bird, breathe under water like a fish, and even pass through walls. These are examples of suspending disbelief. Loving our enemy, in spite of his obvious perfidy, persevering at a task when failure seems immanent, these are examples of suspending disbelief.
Walking on hot coals and not burning the feet, or staring at the sun and not harming your eyes are exercises in this regard. Ultimately, of course there is no need for us to test ourselves, self-consciously, because the Universe is already doing it at every moment.
However, we use self-conscious testing at times because it can awaken us to what is going on around us, when otherwise we might remain ignorant of the great opportunities available to us through suspension of disbelief.
We must learn to let go of disbelief.
This gives us the ability to act without motive – from a state of emptiness or freedom. This then is true action, unpremeditated.
Living in the relative world is like going to the movies; suspending disbelief just like children playing.
Let me be quiet now.