originally posted by: glend
"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world.
Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
-Rumi
But what does that mean???
Light and darkness is a battle between heart and mind. To cure the darkness in the world. We have to cure the darkness in ourselves. To think with
our heart and not with mind. For mind is a bottomless pit of desires that is incapable of finding true happiness. So if you want true happiness,
Don't exist as mind.
Breath in nature. Find that inner child that found immense joy in being. Exist in the Now. Not all those fears of tomorrow that may never
occur.
"Clever" is a gambit. Variables Unknown... Culmination reveals the Truth...
"Introspection/Wisdom" is complete; with Judge, Jury and witness all present. All may know the Truth, immediately...or eventually.
Darkness and Light... Good and Evil... Total Unity and Utter Chaos...
"As above so below"
Duality defines the Creation...
A collision of nothing and everything, balanced in this linear and emergent reality...
We ride the polarity waves on the event horizon of this collision...
In order, some love is given to chaos, that we may emerge from the one...a separate self is born "new"...
This is a truth evident in the permeation of the parent/child pattern throughout reality...
The purpose in this pattern is creational variety...
A tabula rasa with which to generate new things eternally...
Also, from the parent/child pattern we can infer, (intuitively so), our reason and destiny as creator beings...
As such, we must needs be versed in the dualities and the varying aspects, which include both Love and Hate, Order and Chaos...Unity and
Entropy...Obscurity and Importance...
We are taught Balance and moderation for good reasons.
The works of creation are not one sided...
Selflessness (enlightenment) and selfishness (egoism) are but one such balancing act we must strive to perfect, and are indelible to the acts of
creating.
For as offspring of a creator being, patterns would suggest that we are destined to create things...
Ego generates desire...
Desire is the definitive catalyst of our self/mind/soul/ego through the Creation...
It is very much in need in the beginning of our incarnations, and is most observable in our siblings of the animal kingdom...
It is the "little dab'l do ya" bit of Chaos, placed within the spinning wheel of unity, to generate variation...
We may find ourselves wanting of this aspect in late incarnations, and so comes the desire to create spiritual offspring, and sacrifice of the ego
begins...
The pattern here is of the parent, sacrificing of themselves, that the "new one" may emerge and grow...fruit on the seed...
However, we are all just at the beginnings, really...
There is sooo much more to be learned, and lots and lots of time and space within which to do it...
After all, it's not all about the beginning or the end...for me, it's the getting there...