[davidsun]

Originally Posted by Greenslade

Perhaps the greatest respect we can give to the greats is to embody their teachings and not use [meaning abuse] them as a way of demeaning others [yes, GS!] in order to gain an illusionary Spiritual acumen. To borrow from the Hobbits, Spirituality is as Spirituality does but that takes a Spirituality beyond the rules, regulations, power-plays [including 'rebelliions' ] and politics.

Relating to this (I think), from my treatise:

Those who already believe that their and others’ soul constellations derive from and so are (potentially) ‘immortal’ aspects of the ever-ongoing Flow of Life Itself will also be able to more meaningfully consider what ‘steps’ towards becoming more expansively loving and joyful in relation to and with others it may be most appropriate for them to (next) take by framing and viewing what’s going on in and around them in the reincarnational and post‑incarnational perspective presented herein. In particular, folks may thereby just matter‑of‑factly engage with Life in ways that lead to their experiencing an ongrowing Flow of Love and Joy in relation to and with others around them simply by paying attention to, learning from and constructively responding to whatever is happening (or not, which they think and feel it would ‘better’ if it was) in their lives at any given point, without their feeling any existential ‘need’ or being in any particular ‘hurry’ to go ‘all the way’ in any regard in the context of their present Life-situation. Their assigning secondary status to [personal] pleasure-and-gain (and associated comfort-and-security) seeking desires and pain-and-loss (and associated stress-and-uncertainty) avoidance-motivating aversions when considering possible, and possibly competing, Love and Joy options (because such desires and aversions will then, of course, be ‘seen’ to just be the momentary pull and push corollates of one’s ‘local’ temperospatial ‘carnality’) will be sufficient to ‘guide’ their progression in this regard. The process spoken of herein as self‑transcendence (which requires that one embrace and choose, insofar as one is at any point able to, to do whatever one thinks will serve to optimize and augment The Flow of Love and Joy above and beyond considerations pertaining to any particular temperospatial ‘body’ or cohort of ‘bodies’) will, in due course, thus optimally☺ proceed to completion.

Woohoo!