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Considerations 124 …

The Path is Endless …

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The Path is long … so very long. In the end one discovers that it is virtually endless no matter what status or level one has attained. There is always something more to learn … even for the authentic Masters.

There comes a time when you begin to see. You’ve been through 95% of the traditional teachings of the times … and you begin to sense beyond them. After working through the resentment of being misled by the philosophical and metaphysical salesmen … you begin to suspect … and to search for … the truths that are not easily attained … the foundations of these traditional teachings.

Perhaps here you might wish to pause for a while … to rest … to ponder an overview to gain perspective. Eventually you do discover that rather hidden step that is often in front of you. Opportunities are presented. Then you catch glimpses of even more. These have been previously overlooked.

Then in another lifetime or two you repeat the whole scenario … seeing farther … seeing more broadly … more of the Whole.

Eventually you learn enough techniques where you can take at least 20% control over your beliefs and limitations … what you do with them and how much they control you … and then you begin to knowingly build on that and revise your approach. Then you increase that to 30-40-50% … and you begin to gain some individual freedom … religion freedom … by living *within* the Law.

When you get to 60-70-80% … you’ve accumulated a major, major perspective on LIFE. This has taken *lifetimes* to develop.

You realize that if any information upsets you … it is your mental habitual viewpoints that are being upset. Now you know that mind is habitual and doesn’t like change. Now if you find that a particular belief should be questioned … you simply do it. You need to be honest with Self. This is key to discoveries. This is a massive lesson in discernment. You can certainly believe as you wish … continue to believe in the limitations because the traditions teach it so. The only person that suffers is … *you.*

You finally begin to understand that to try and use the mind to mentally understand the vastness of Existence … you realize that the mind is a tool and a good one … but it is not designed to understand to that extent. It is good for what it does.

A Cessna plane will do just fine if you wish to hop and fly around the world … but it cannot get you to the moon or beyond.

This is similar to what you discover. And yet … if you are wholly satisfied with spinning around the world … why bother looking more deeply? If the Lower Psychic Worlds are all you wish to know … then you are exactly where you wish and need to be.

I totally agree. Looking “more deeply” is *not* for everyone. In fact … it is for the *very* few. Please remember … most … if not all of these posts are not for those that are content with where they are in the Lower Psychic Worlds. If you are content and wish to stay … you are not only “where you are supposed to be” according to your preferences … but you have a much easier path than those who wish to move beyond … a rather unbelievable statement until one actually tries to do so.

You finally figure out that living within the Whole of Existence is
not the constant ecstatic high … the bliss … the ecstasy …
that everyone dreams of. It is certainly not the depressive, frustrating,
aggravating experience either.

You learn to live to be content … and you are content because everything has been settled …
not dismissed … not erased … but understood as all working parts of the Whole. It all fits together. And
you are a working part of it and you are not here to prove anything to anybody …
unless or until they are ready to interact on at least a somewhat similar
level of experience.

Mind does not easily accept anyone talking beyond them.

It’s not a matter of learning a lot of data and assembling a list of how-to-do’s … but the secret lies in the attitude of approach … the discerning overview that lets you know where you are and how you can be a working part of it all … to assist in the growth and the service of the continuation of LIFE IT-self.

You learn to accept and appreciate all those people who wish to continue to squabble over either / or … over if or if not … they are just fine where they are … and to allow and appreciate them in where they are and their own adventurous experience. You let them continue for as long as that fulfills them … for the constant bickering of it being either this-or-that can keep one busy seemingly forever. It’s a mental playground.

This is when it all becomes a very lonely path. Few walk alongside. This is one feature that keeps most everyone mostly acceptant of the status quo. You want to tell others that conventional teachings do not hold the deeper truths. There is tremendous resistance and simple dismissal when you try to even hint to the masses.

There is very little communication between those who know and those who don’t … and we may try to discover and design that elusive dialogue that others will listen to but it will not happen. We are always looking for that “secret” communication. Until the other person becomes receptive … little will happen. The other person needs to have at least a few of the experiences that will inwardly show him the truth of what you say and then they may listen to more.

You also learn that one of the basic approaches of the mind is to make everyone else change *their* behavior or beliefs so that said individual does not have to. It is not difficult to understand that you learn nothing by living this way.

And slowly the lessons of all of this add themselves to what you already know. One can easily become incredibly rebellious and bitter … but with enough insight … and with suspecting what will be and is necessary to truly walk those far-reaching steps beyond the norm … you realize that there is no other way to learn and live the degrees of persistence, strength, courage, devotion, forgiveness … and many more. How else can such degrees of the moral and ethical attributes be learned?

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A 90-post index is found at thread post number 370 … page 37

A second index for posts 92 - 120 is on page 51 … post # 501

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