Re: What do you gain from enlightment
Originally Posted by
Terry
I am not sure if any of that made sense but was curious about your view on this and I do understand the balance you are going for and maybe this isn't something that is applicable to you at least right now.
My view on what? I'm not sure if you mean the stuff about narrow-thinking religionists (they come in all shapes and flavours, by the way; it's not limited to Christianity, and some people turn politics or other cultural things into what amounts to a cultish religion, too). Or my view on the middle ground?
I think the only thing for the middle ground and getting there and staying there is going to be the only thing that I know for sure works: intention plus surrender. Set the intention and then completely let go of it and surrender to whatever process or events come up. It always works, though it can be a strange ride at times. I don't know how, can't figure out how, am unlikely to work it out, so I'll just have to intend it and release it and see how it unfolds. And it will. That much I definitely have experienced all my life.
Oh, and something else I've experienced pretty much all my life is disappointment and dismay in humanity. I still carry that with me. I don't suppose I will ever think highly of humanity. I may love, like, respect, and otherwise think well of individual persons, but humanity as a whole is a pretty unpleasant sort of thing. I've been chastised for this attitude plenty of times (on these forums, as well), but that's how this material mind interprets the stuff it has experienced. Maybe if I could change that, I might experience humanity in a different way. I probably would, in fact. To be entirely honest, I'm not sure I want to change it. I'll have to meditate on this and see why that might be the case (thank you for your post, it helped me to focus on that ).
May the light surround you, may you be blessed. May the light surround us, may we be blessed. May love and light surround us all, and may we all be healed and blessed. And so it is, and so it shall be, now and ever after.
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