Thanks, Tom, that was interesting.
Oliver
Thanks, Tom, that was interesting.
Oliver
Bless you, Tom. I know you weren't writing that to me (you'd have had no way of knowing I needed to hear it!) but it illuminates several things I've been struggling with and/or wondering about.Originally Posted by Tom
Oh, is THAT all?Originally Posted by Tom
That's brilliant. Definitely going to try that as soon as I get the opportunity. Thank you, again.Originally Posted by Tom
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.
Originally Posted by Tom
Easier said than done. In other words, you'd have to annihilate all your ego's.
The talk about destroying the ego is overkill. Ego is something you do; it is not something you are. You could say you destroy walking every time you sit down, but why? Watch yourself so you catch yourself doing ego and congratulate yourself on your successes. The problem is that it is so easy to do ego without being conscious of it, and it starts to look like there are no other options but to keep doing it. Map it out and you will see its limitations, then beyond those limitations.
I don't want to sound like I'm butt kissing, but that was a Thing of Beauty.Originally Posted by Tom
You know I'll quote it.
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Originally Posted by Tom
The ego that which you have to annihilate I believe is the parts of you that are susceptible to external programming and influences. The aspects of you that react negatively to something when you want to react positively. Pretty much the inability to be like who you truly want to be without external influences is your ego that must be annihilated.
Not even great and enlightened teachers are invulnerable to outside influences and events. We all still function in the material world while we are alive. Unless you go and live in a cave and never speak to anyone, you have to interact with what's around you.Originally Posted by watrinh
Actually, as I understand it, enlightenment includes a sense that "negative" and "positive" are just material qualifiers, anyway.Originally Posted by watrinh
Certainly, I can see some benefit in healing or changing or altering your ego so it will behave more in a way you'd like it to behave, but that's not really anything to do with Oneness/Unity or awakening. It's just tuning the instrument that you use to interact with the material world.
That's not the same thing Tom is talking about, I don't think. You're talking more about "self improvement" or similar. Altering your ego is not an unworthy pursuit (heaven knows I've spent YEARS at that, and I'm still at it), but it won't lead you any closer to enlightenment. When you focus on your ego and put your attention there, that's where you're putting your attention, whether you're trying to immolate parts of yourself or heal them.Originally Posted by watrinh
Sorry to make this sound like a lecture, as I suspect it does. Fact is, it appears that I had this understanding sort of unformed in my consciousness and when I was writing this, it all took form as I was writing. I'll leave the post for posterity's sake (and, hey, if I get it wrong, I can come back some time later and go, "Boy, I sure got that wrong!").
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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