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Post by jasonsorrell on Jun 12, 2011 6:42:55 GMT -6
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Post by boksmutant on Jun 13, 2011 3:02:45 GMT -6
Impressive, most impressive. Reading through the Fourth Way tells you not to relax to much or tense to much. Why would anyone tell you not to relax eh? I look at it the same for the extremes in order & chaos for the parameters you describe. We the public are so accustomed to living in the two extreme worlds of relaxation & tension, that we end up trying to take one or the other to the extreme.
I happen to be fairly tense most of the time & I end up offsetting it by trying to relax. Yes I've spent allot of time in meditation & it does come easy for me; BUT the work tells you otherwise. One should become accustomed to knowing when they are or NEED to be tense(and learn how to observe/feed it), while the same goes for relaxation, Societal Order & Chaos are the similar. Exploring the parameters of your own internal teeter totter between the two could be reasonable, but how could you judge it? Ultimately you would need to push a little on both sides to notice. Funny that our human race has historically shown that we are both afraid & ignorant of either. What a *)#$ing joke. So are pushing is mostly based on those two emotions. I wonder where technology fits in to that pushing? Awaken!!
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Post by sin on Jun 13, 2011 9:48:52 GMT -6
"When chaos and order are perfectly balanced, they neutralize one-another and stasis occurs... there is no opportunity for growth. The back-and-forth motion is necessary."
I think this summed it up rather nicely for me. I find many of these dichotomies utterly useless and restricting such as a division of RHP/LHP. Every person cycles into passive and aggressive modes of behavior. This can be conceptualized by using the Tantric analogy of the relationship of Shatki and Shiva. Each person cycles into the roles of Shatki and Shiva. To believe there is a clear dividing line between what is RHP and LHP is absurd. This is also among the reasons I reject the concept of 'middle pillar' or 'walking the line' as it were.
The chaos and imbalance is what fosters growth, when things become too organized they are self-created prisons we choose to live in. An illusion of freedom.
Great blog Jason.
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