How come some fall prey to an entire life conditioned by the crowd, while other individuals have broken free from it? What are the symptoms and outcome of an individual breaking free from the crowd-mind and what mechanisms in the individual cause it to happen in the first place?
Tag: non-attachment
The Flow
We've all done something repetitive that we were able to do without thinking about it. Rather than use what I deem as glib a description as muscle memory, of an innate human ability to adapt movement to the responses of the nervous system, I call it either The Flow or doing God's work. I.e. there … Continue reading The Flow
What Does it Take and What Happens
Buddha shows that his way took eight years of isolation, to come to the conclusion...that it wasn't the way. It may well be different for all of us, but Christ also showed "A way". His was forty days and forty nights of abstinence. From everything. Reducing uncooked vegetarian food intake gradually, by one third each … Continue reading What Does it Take and What Happens
Sudden Insight
The black section is where we all think life is found. In the details of experience. The white is where life is found which is repressed, but it doesn't come from there, it comes from the underlying. Balance or the transcendence of dualism is seeing it as a wholesome, singular thing AND recognizing the significance … Continue reading Sudden Insight
Inspired by Defining Yellow
What happens when you shine white light through a prism? It refracts, reflects, and splits the light. What happens when you shine your light of consciousness through a prism of good and bad? You accidentally apply the mere idea of bad to events, people and frames of mind which don't fit what you expect. But … Continue reading Inspired by Defining Yellow
Christ-Like
Christ is the saving grace. But without grace, if you attempt Christ-like (perpetually empty mind), you can get the opposite. Without a doctrine of peace to accompany the purging of the unreal self-identity, one can accidentally fall to a darker side. The trick is to dissolve good and evil in yourself rather than trying to … Continue reading Christ-Like
Non-Materialism
Do you really have to give up all your things? No, just your reliance on building identity from the attachment to them. When we exchange our currency for possessions, we build self-esteem from them. Thought and things do not enhance the true you in any way.
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