Post by Figgles on Nov 20, 2024 6:04:46 GMT
Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed-seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.
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Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results. This is but saying that nothing can come from corn but corn, nothing from nettles but nettles. Men understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world (though its operation there is just as simple and undeviating), and they, therefore, do not co-operate with it.
James Allen, As A Man Thinketh
Reefs:
This basically explains the sickly guru paradox.
This basically explains the sickly guru paradox.
It's only a paradox if you've bought into the idea that mind's judgments about what constitutes a "good thought/action" vs. a "bad thought/action," and what constitutes a "bad result" vs. a "good result," are inviolable....Truth.
I'd suggest spending some time inquiring into specifically those mind-based judgments. Absent SR, it's important to challenge those.....to question values.....to question attachments to judgments and the black/white labelling of good vs. bad....right vs. wrong....moral vs. immoral, etc.
Those judgmental attachments have no place in freedom/SR.
From the vantage point of an SVP, a body that is paralyzed, for example, and requires a wheelchair to get around, evokes deep/harsh judgments...condemnation....extreme mental and emotional resistance, a sense of intolerability towards such a condition, but that depth of judgment is simply no longer in play in the absence of an SVP.
What that means is that post SR, there is no longer any 'paradox' regarding a guru with a so called "imperfect" bodily condition. The entire measuring stick by which judgments are now made, has shifted dramatically.
Conditions that were previously deemed to be condemnable, intolerable, are now accepted...allowed, even embraced. It's impossible to truly grasp that from the position of seeing through the eyes of an SVP though.
