| Subject: Wow! There is so much going on here! |
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kyla
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Date Posted: 18:40:03 08/01/01 Wed
I really hope others will take up the consideration of the feeling embodied witness consciousness awakening with Ellen. i know i need more clarity about how it shows up for different people and how we find different ways to approach and invite it.
And i really want to say some more about the much maligned mind. i am relieved to hear Ben say that quieting the mind is never necessary and is not necessary for Awakening. I mean, sure, the mind is not all it has been led, by mind in the hypermasculine predicament, to think that it is, and sure, much of what occurs during Awakening and in post- Awakening life is initially outside of the grasp of the mind, and much of it REMAINS outside that grasp! But to therefore deride or intentionally try to sidestep the mind seems off-base to me. i personally feel that the more i exercise my mind around these matters of Dharma and how Awakening and post-Awakening life is showing up for me and for others, the better able my mind becomes to participate in true recognition and Whole-Being growth and evolution.
Saniel has said a lot about the mind. listen to this from WHY: "If you are waking into Being-consciousness, it's time to stop making war on the body-mind for the sake of spiritual growth.....In these [Oriental] philosophies of quietism, the idea is to hold yourself back from energetic participation in mind, will, desire, emotion, and action. The ultimate artists of such quietism can do amazing things....But that doesn't help them Awaken, in the divinely human fashion, any more quickly or fully."
For myself, this Awakening has provided work for my mind that it has FOREVER been hungry for, and i am not about to squelch the fulfillment of what has been for me a basic, fundamental, crying need all my first birth life, to have a work that will feed and satisfy this hungry mind, and one of the main things I am grateful to Saniel and his Dharma for, and the Awakening i have realized because of them, is this opportunity to feed my mind what it has been craving unfulfilled for so bloody long! And really, blessings on all other ways of holding and experienceing the mind, I do not expect others to duplicate my journey here! Or even to share it. but i can not in integrity allow it to seem to be made wrong without strenuously engaging in expressing how this is for me. The mind takes so many hits from all sides these days. It is part of how Consciousness expresses as US. We could not be in the body without the mind! i feel we all in some way need to honor this fact, or we are missing something huge.
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