Very inciteful muir... We all have our own challenges. That's why we are here on earth. But enlightenment is "rising above" the earthly drama. I don't mean to turn a blind eye.
I think you mean 'insightful'...although to be fair i suppose i am trying to incite as well...peaceful incitement but incitement nontheless!
Yeah i understand what you are saying here about the aim being to rise above the earthly drama. The reality is that most of us simply are not at that stage yet. We are all very much bogged down in the earthly drama.
To be at a stage where you are consciously seeking to rise above all the earthly related behaviours/views/perceptions etc is to be at a certain stage of awareness. Part of that awareness is undertstanding that there is duality in the first place and that reality is composed of duality.
To seek to end cycles of karma requires an understanding that there are cycles of karma
This 'great work' as the alchemists called it of trying to seek samadhi or union with universal consciousness requires dedication; that's why the alchemists often sought rich patrons to support them whilst they attempted to stimulate their pineal glands by telling their rich patrons that they were actually trying to create physical gold that would make their patron rich!
The point i'm trying to make is that to seek 'enlightenment' is difficult in a consumer culture and in order to put ones outer world into alignment with ones inner will is a difficult thing that is helped by understanding what one is up against in the first place.
But I mean not to let it take hold of you and drive your mood and feelings on a daily basis. The painful realities as you say such as government coruption and injustice (and many more) cannot be changed through frustration and anger because those systems will fight to maintain thier power and influence with furver. These systems must be changed at a higher level by people creating ideas and systems that are so clearly better that they would be foolish not to evolve and change. I like to watch both the Tea Party and the Occupy Movement because they are both trying to do the same thing. But they don't come up with encompassing real concrete solutions and ideas. They are just protesting through idealism. They are saying, "this is wrong, that is wrong." They aren't saying, this x,y,z is a better way and here is the data why it's better for everyone.
Yes they become embroiled in the cycle of pain which is exactly where the elites want them to be
I think there are people within those movements who are producing data though but they are just finding their feet and are aligned against an opponent that is very organised, very wealthy and very ruthless.
They could change their approach to one of switching people on spiritually so that people simply stopped engaging in the cycle of pain but as i've hinted at already most people are already bogged down in the mundane. The profit driven system we live in is designed to keep people hooked into and dependent on it so that they have neither the time, energy, money or inclination to pursue personal enlightenment.
I do agree however that if the inner is taken care of that the outer will then change accordingly...hence my signature: 'free your mind and your ass will follow!'
So growing awareness is a way to help people to inner change which in turn will then manifest as change in the outer world ('as above so below')
I do however think that there are people in the occupy movement who are operating within the current of love
Here's a story... two people are bitter rivals. They cannot remember why they originally started to disagree and how it got so bad. But now, they cannot even be around one another without arguing, fighting, and yelling at one another. Neither side will budge an inch. If one person has an idea, the other person has the opposite idea just to spite the other and dissagree. Both fight to survive and fight for relevancy and power in the relationship. Both sides think they are right and the other is wrong.
So I ask you this... how will things change when there's a stalemate like this? In the past, each person would create havoc, destroy the other, frame the other's family, seek revenge, potentially kill the other person or someone in their family. Something so bad that after it happens both sides look at one another and says, "ok that was just so bad, that we need to quit this, we need to get over this and reconcile our differences or we are going to distroy everything. Problem solved.
I've put the idea out elsewhere on the forum that there is an imbalance in our society relating to an overdependance on a left brained view of the world. By this i of course mean a leaning (orchestrated by the elites through education and media) towards seeing the world in terms of categorisation and seperateness and cold rationallity and that the right brain view of connectedness, intuition, creativity and compassion is being deliberately ignored, penalised or derided
Now, the other way for things to change is that one of them or both rises above their differences, forgives and forgets, looks at the positive side of the other. Demostrates love toward the other. Understands that just because someone is different doesn't mean they are a bad person. They come up with solutions that benifit both people. They find common ground. They realize that they have much more in common than they could have imagined. They become friends. They both thrive and are very successful and abundant in life and help each other achieve their dreams.
These are the decisions that we face now. Are we going to go back to the old paradigm of war and seperation? Or are we going to come together and understand one another and live exciting, happy, abundant lives?
The idea of a suffering child is this. Their soul choses to go through this reality for two reasons. One is to learn and experience that reality and two, to raise awareness and teach others that the world needs to change. So that suffering child is both learning lessons and teaching lessons to the rest of the world. A very noble pupose indeed.
I understand what you are saying....i really do....my perceptions are at a point at the moment where i believe that there is a deliberate and coherent move by people in power to increase antagonism and seperateness and to manufacture both consent and dissent as and when it pleases them.
This puts us in a very difficult position because it is not as simple as us forgiving the bankers at the top of the current economic drama because the bankers (the ones at the very top who are using occult means to achieve their goals) are not interested in reconciliation only in control
Yes there are those who are simply leaning too much on left brained thinking who might be able to gain more balance but i think there are some who are simply not going to move themselves towards balance. It then falls to us to bring about change ourselves proactively.
I think spirituality is key to that process in terms of inner change on both an individual and a societal scale whether this is due to empirical reasons such as leading by example or whether it is due to something metaphysical or the fractal nature of the universe, the hundredth monkey, transcendental meditation, hacking into the matrix...whatever......but to 'turn on, tune in, drop out' requires a certain level of awareness just to break out of the consumerist mindset in the first place and that sometimes requires facing upto unpleasant realities
I have enjoyed reading your posts by the way and i do agree with what you're saying....it's nice to hear someone making the points you're making
