Re: Dissolution of Character
Originally Posted by
DerFürst
The person I've always wanted to be, funny enough, is only something I can be when the concepts of "I" and "becoming" are dropped.
Yeah, it's like that, isn't it?
Originally Posted by
Kittahkatt
How does one going about living life refrain from being the person experiencing it? In the absence of "me," what's left behind treats people with far more compassion and love than the self-destructive striver and doer "me" ever does. There is an idea floating around my head that says "mindfulness is cultivated through mindfulness meditation, and so the sense of awareness will be more prevalent in all aspects of life as the practice unfolds."
You know, I don't know how to answer this, because I haven't gotten to the place of balance yet. I'm there sometimes, but a lot of the time, the distraction of the I-me-mine and the material goings-on pull me right back into the character of "me". Well, it is possible to get into a sort of blissed out, non-present state, which is very nice, but then nothing gets done because I can see all too well that nothing NEEDS to be done, because it's all perfect the way it is. And it is, but... yes. It's a dilemma. How do you stay present enough to play the dream-life-game, yet detached enough to not be dragged back into it all the time? To be, as St Paul wrote, in the world, but not of the world?
I don't know. For the moment, I have to say I think it's just something that evolves, something that is acquired. I can't even say it's learned, because that implies something that I don't think is probably possible. Maybe bits are learned, but for the most part, I suspect it's a maturing process where you eventually find the middlle path (thank you, Buddha) and, by whatever means, stay there most of the time, and eventually, all of the time.
Note: This view is subject to change, as are all of my views. This is just my current observation.
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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