Part 2- Sadness in the Kingdom

Deep down, deep deep down I wonder if the issue is Responsibility. You create your own reality I think ought to be ‘ You are responsible for creating your own reality and p.s it doesn’t help if you play small because then you get stuck’.


All this week I am going to be responding to all the good people who have responded to this thread on the various points because the process of engaging is already unsticking this place and this perspective. In some respects I have a good life, but I feel its smallness and it does no good for me to compare myself to those who have ‘less’ and are content. Because my reality and value fulfilment is mine, I know the shape of it and the need of its fulfilment.

wolfnowl wrote:



That's something I'm sure we've all experienced. The question is, what do you learn from this irritation?


Love,
Mike.[/quote]

One biblical passage that always struck me and comes to mind as I write this

"And He said to another, "Follow Me." But he said, "Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father." But He said to him, "Allow the dead to bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim everywhere the kingdom of God." Another also said, "I will follow You, Lord; but first permit me to say good-bye to those at home." But Jesus said to him, "No one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." (Luke 9:59-62)"

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And I also I recall morphous in the matrix

Morpheus: The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it.
[Neo's eyes suddenly wander towards a woman in a red dress



This physical plane is something of a trance and it seems for reasons I don’t understand maybe don’t need to- the idea of the individual as Mistress of her life and master of her events- actualreality creation is not just frowned upon it is blocked and distorted. I think I have been naive, I have been affected by the emotional mass belief not to be soveriegn in ones own life.


To say no to the mass belief, to really say no and understand that it’s fine and necessary to leave the dead to bury their dead. To leave those who are creating realities within the trance to their own value fulfilment. That would be a radical c choice.

Part of me feels its lacking in compassion, that's a rogue emotional conditioning .

So what I learn is the impossibility of movement with two highly charged contradictory beliefs, simultaneous held . It's either ok to crate my own reality or it's not .

I am still thinking about how hard it is for the elephant to live as a mouse :-) .

Hey Richard,
Thank you we are having a great time, Gert-Jan and me, and the marriage was a fun event! I think your Lodi (this brings back memories of a girl in the orchestra I used to play in who had that name)says something important. I've had thoughts about this with lucid dreaming, why do we try so hard to get lucid in the dreams and oftentimes don't pay attention at all to that lucid "now"moment during the day?

Hi Augustina,

You write: I was reminded how it really didn't matter which path I followed" that reminds me about how harsh people can condamn religion for instance even though for some people it is their prefered path to understanding and it works perfectly well for them. No one road is "the"road. We all have our preferences.

We don't all have to know how the car is functioning technically to be able to drive it and to enjoy driving it tremendously and it is not even garuenteed that driving the car will be fun and a better experience when you DO know why it functions the way it does.

But if you love cars and love technical things and it is fulfilling to you to know how it works, you will ask the questions anyway and find and play with all the information relating to that topic and nourish yourself with whatever suits you.

I'm not at all interested to learn how a car functions from the inside out, even when Jeroen a good friend of ours is, he will never be able to pass over this knowledge to me, and gladly so he is not trying to waste his breath any longer on me with that information, but enjoys talking with Gert-Jan about it. Do I miss some information about reality? (in this case why the car works like it does?) perhaps...but does it deminish my hapiness? Not at all.

This is a thought I often have when it comes to people feeling that the whole world should know about YCYOR in order to be able to live a fulfilling life.

Hi Max,
Interesting that your daughter would rather hear it from a younger person, I myself, even though young, never found it a problem that Jane (who had died when I was 2 years old) was so long gone (though of course it would have been fun if she had still been around). Her words are still as "alive"for me even though they are written in another time. (that's one of the things I love about Jane's work is that (most of it) is not so influenced by time. Thanks for the compliment, its always nice when someone appreciates what I've written

Duane!
I love what you write here: "the great obstacle to progress is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge". Your whole post is very nicely put, thanks for sharing your ideas, they make a lot of sense to me.