"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
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July 19, 2009
One of the things I'm feeling more and more is that even though on a certain level there is a universality of experience, a level of all-one-taste, there is also a way in which every individual sentient being's experience of reality is absolutely unique. So unique, in fact, that we are on a certain level unknowable to each other. We are entire universes unto ourselves. It's 2 conflicting concepts, the universality and oneness, and the individuality and uniqueness that both coexist and are both true. I guess I had always been sort of aware of the universality, but the uniqueness is really hitting me hard. We are all universes, aren't we? (So there's really no need to look elsewhere for a multiverse.) I think it's a good realization, because it makes my love and sense of wonder stronger.
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Huh...interesting
— Aug 10, 2009
I completely agree with your assessment on our uniqueness. In fact, in my own meditation work both personally and with my students, I travel into this world, (as I often do in my dreams). There I encounter thoughts, ideas, feelings, memories, all represented as people, places and things within this world. Utilizing this powerful meditative technique has allowed me to reprogram myself and showed others how to do the same, so as to become more empowered, self-realized beings.
What I find interesting however, is in your closing statement, that we don't need to look elsewhere for a multiverse. I am curious: Do you mean that the extra-dimensions are completely irrelevant, or that they are not as important to us in our current stage of evolution until we have mastered the dimensions within?
well...
— Aug 10, 2009
...I looked at your page, I see you are also a healer and a martial artist. Myself, I've worked within the system for the past ten years. A lot of my basic understanding of conflict dynamics that I learned through fighting, and a lot of my personal energy has gone into fighting injustice and standing up for those who can't stand up for themselves, usually against authority. Doing stuff like that over the years (I really never felt I had a choice, since I'm good at it) has made me in a certain way a rather bitter and angry person. All this time, I was also trying to understand myself... and I see how much I've taken conflict into myself. In a lot of ways I've been at war this whole time. I sort of lost touch with the point. But I have also been trying hard to practice and study Buddhism, and it has gotten to the point where it's paying off for me... I'm just seeing people very differently at times. Everyone is a Buddha, it's not just theory or a nice thing to say. Limitless. And beautiful. Even people who are sick in the head and hurt there own children.
No, I totally believe in an external multiverse, and the beings out there who affect and help and harm us, but I also think that each one of us are that. In self- psychology (Kohut), being able to hold two contradictory thoughts in your head at the same time is considered a sign of sanity. Bob Thurman also once said basically the same thing in the context of Buddhism.
ahh
— Aug 10, 2009
Yeah, I understand where you're coming from, and yeah, we're on the same page, you and I. I have followed suit with my Master and have spent the past couple of years working more on the world within than my martial skills, and of course, with energy. Over the past two years I've been focusing my efforts on manipulating the energy of the elements. Kind of like the show Avatar, but more realistic.
I can relate to your anguish and calling. I myself have a natural and impassioned inclination to protecting the weak and working to make sure humanity has a future. Personally, I found Tai Chi's moral lesson of "letting go" helped me better determine what battles to fight and how to go about it without overspending myself or embittering my soul. Well, I'm not perfect, so I still get flare-ups, but I'm working on it. It's an on-going process.
*sigh* I think it's great that all of us thinkers and heroes can meet and speak freely. Cheers Mate!
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