Quote:
Originally Posted by JustASimpleGuy
From our perspective, our anchor in what we experience as objective reality, there is experience. Pure experience. Detached. Dispassionate. Empty. I'd 'label' that awareness or consciousness.
However it does seem to me labels are a necessary means of teaching, instructing or relating in a meaningful manner before a concept is understood and assimilated.
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In
my view,
all Being, or Soul, hence
Presence of
Life,
is a
Mind-and-
Spirit generated 'wave' which is 'made up', or 'created', by a combination of '
consciousness' and '
motivation', hence
conscious-
motivation.
In
my view, everything/everyone is
motivated by Spirit, which
motivation (
in relation to other 'waves') may either be 'positive'
or 'negative'
or (deliberately
or otherwise) 'neutral'. Even in the latter case of of 'neutrality', however, this does
not reflect an
real 'emptiness' or absence of
spirit (IMO, there can be
no such thang!) but rather a
passionate
preference for
not engaging
either 'positively'
or 'negatively' with whatever 'wave' of
Life one is ex-peer-iencing, i.e. perceiving, at the moment.
Characterizing such 'neutrality'
as 'pure' (implicitly characterizing any 'positive' or 'negative' [u]responsive[/U[ness
as 'impure',
emotionally-loaded, hence questionable, is
white-washing psee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitew..._(censorship)] propaganda,
IMO.
In
my view, 'waves' of Life may be 'surfed' in whatever 'direction' one wishes (chooses, elects, etc.) one's own 'wave' to travel in.
Of course, one
may deliberately
choose not to 'surf' on (i.e. to
just be 'neutral' in relation to) any particular 'wave' that comes one's way. But to do so
as a matter of principle/philosophy in relation to any and all 'waves' that come one's way is to abdicate and miss out on the opportunity that being a 'wave'
in the
context of the
multiplicity of 'wave' opportunities that 'incarnation' provides us (our
souls) with to developmentally move in 'positive' and away from 'negataive'
directions - again, this is
as seen in
my view.
Such an
election, if and as persevered in, will result in one's soul stagnating and, ultimately, atrophying if one is unlucky enough not to have Life's exigencies 'bust' one out of such static directional-immobilizaton - or so my
logic leads
me to think, believe and feel.
From my book in this regard: "I have deliberately not used phrases like ‘
reaching Godhead’ and ‘
getting to Heaven’, though what I am advocating is exactly that, because they erroneously imply an end‑destination. In terms of
Life, this is a
false concept. In case, having found Life’s mode of flux upsetting, you are one who has fallen prey to the temptation to set your sights on an
illusion of some sort of
utopian finale, let me disabuse you of the notion. The
best, ultimately most glorious and joyful attain*ment is
not a place or state that one arrives at and stays in.
Staticity of
any kind, if prolonged, leads to
stagnation. In terms of
Creativity, it is
death! The ecstatic ‘peak’ such terms refer to is really not a final attainment or accomplishment, as many naively believe. Rather, as the words ‘Eternal Life’ clearly indicate, it is
ever-ongoing creative
process!"