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Gaining the perspective that all is as it should be does not free one from social or personal responsibility.
It emphasizes the need for action.
From our normal state of consciousness it is difficult to see the gestalt and the inner workings of the watchworks as it ticks along impersonal and unconcerned with our daily strife and glory. Pain or pleasure have no significance at that level of existing.
But we are not at that level and when we do get a peek behind the curtain it is difficult to keep the curtain open. The best we can strive and hope for is to keep in remembrance that glimpse into the watchworks and allow it to change our course of action and acting.

Such a view and subsequent meditations upon it bring with them knowledge and that starts the inescapable spiral twirling in our lives;

knowledge brings responsibility
responsibility demands action
action imparts experience
experience brings knowledge
and so it goes on and on as long as we allow it to proceed.

It isn't something that has to be tightly held onto nor can it be, but rather we need to succumb to it and allow it to guide our course. The tighter we try to hold onto such awareness in our lives the more elusive it becomes and the more self serving and selfish the very act becomes.

It is like watering a fruit tree. As long as we care for the tree, providing water, sunlight and nutrients, the fruit will be born and manifest. You can't force a tree to bear fruit, you tend to it and allow it to bear fruit, it can do no other thing but be fruitful.

That is how I have always viewed the idea of the Holy Spirit bearing the fruit of love in a true Christians life. The notion of surrender and submission to God is exactly what is needed to bring forth the fruit in a person's life. It isn't a negative "slavery" type of connotation as many anti-Christians seem to think, but rather an "allowing" this dynamic to occur and take place in one's life and bear fruit.

At least that is how I have experienced these things which we discuss in these forums.

 

when your in the right place, you'll know. it is a state of being.

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see here how everything, lead up to this day. and it's just like any other day, that's ever been.

 

my post was read wrong, or rather not written clearly. i agree that inner and outer mirror one another. the balance i was refering to was in the nature of ones relationship to both self and outer world.

but there is effort involved mr. writer...of course there is. i dont deny that this movement may be a basic universal truth, but you cant deny the incredible amounts of energy that have been driving the cycle forward.

i like this metaphor.

 

Perhaps I was unclear. There is only one reality does not equal inner outer. This uneven assignment of importance is the uneven heating that causes the sensation of turbulence or effort.
I like the gardening metaphor as well, however yield can be affected with intensive cultivation.

 

that one strikes a chord, was good for me to read. thanks for that

 

What do I do? To make ends meet?

Well I go to school for one. My day job is learning things I want to learn to be able to do things I want to do and that want me to do them.

Honestly, I'm on someone else's dime. I can't do much of what I like because of that yet I still live a quality of life better than 3 billion or more I hear.

I'm gonna start working with greenery around these parts soon, hopefully have some sort of income.

Thankfully I live comfortably enough to give much of my brain waves towards the learning of said life lessons, enlightenment, balance.

I'd say my other day job would be thinking about said ideas. However I preferably live with my current state of being. Which in its best relaxed state is growing immensely with the moment. Never ending. Completely dynamic. Yet the dynamic is static?

There was a point when ends weren't meeting in my soul. Yet now that I am where I am now, I look back on the confusion and I understand it's a natural state. It's like there are various levels of thought. Using the different levels may be what Archemitis referred to as maintenance. It requires little technique though, as if you are in the right state the levels will balance out themselves.

Now with Jigsaw Earth in vision I'm Going Home. Home is where the heart is.

 

i guess i don't disagree with Archemetis regarding the maintenance. but my question is what are you doing exactly to maintain the maintenance? anything specific?

 

I write for a couple of porn sites and also a freelance screenwriter.

 

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How to maintain the balance between inner and outer world? Gently and with no hesitation.

 

Do not deny yourself.

 

I work at a Elderly Home full time and going to school for Naturopathy at the same time. Made a few bucks giving a massage the other day but besides that I'm just working for the man until I'm finished w/ school and I can get the hell outta Michigan.

 

that's very nice thank you for the on topic post.

 

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I keep making reminiscent posts and seeing things from the perspective of my older age and state of major transitions in life. So it goes – hope it doesn’t get too old for you.

Anyway, by 1978 there was a strong psychedelic presence in the world of end-of-life care. Stephen Levine, one of the founders of the SF Oracle was there. Ram Dass (Richard Alpert) and others completely unknown but to themselves, a few others, and God were doing it. People like Aldous Huxley were exploring (Huxley’s wife was a therapist in the work). Seriously psychedelic people were putting themselves face-to-face with the realities of dying and death. The Hanuman Foundation Dying Project was publishing a newsletter on the work – an enlightening and practical guide.

I was thinking about what someone wrote in the 1st Dying Project newsletter, about working in a nursing home, grateful to touch weary old people, suffering people, dying people. It was beautiful reading about her sitting with a dying woman, seeing the light.

All that to say, “the man” may be signing the check, but the people “need to be touched with a gentle and tender hand,” as Mother Teresa said.

The hardest state to be in is one in which you keep your heart open to the suffering that exists around you, and simultaneously keep your discriminative wisdom. Ram Dass

This ain’t no disco. Several people

 

And that reason is why I love working in a nursing home! I see the most intense stuff and I have a loving touch for others so I do well in this field. I have learned SOO MUCH! Especially working with dementia. There is definetly more than what meets the eye. Ohhh and Ram Dass is amazing <3<3