--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Hi Akasha, > > > > Thank you for your lengthy and thoughtful reply. I can much better > > understand your overall perspective now, which oddly enough is > very > > much like my own.
On the other hand, Jim, if I were you I wouldn't doubt my perceptions of Akasha's sometimes having had a "mean-spirited" quality in his posts. When confronted in the past he has often denied them with a sweetly reasonable post like this last one, and/or is quick to use the "mirror defense," accusing YOU of projecting. While projection is always a possibility, especially when the ego is threatened (which Akasha has also demonstrated nicely from time to time), and is morevoer absolutely the Truth from the "highest" level (i.e. we are all "projecting" everything all the time from the Self), such truisms nonetheless do not serve when used to deny one's feeling-level. The Heart is beyond ego, beyond the small self, and quite capable of perceiving the energy-signature of a given post. This might be akin to what Peter has called "confusion of dharmas" -- i.e. misapplying the Truth of one "state" to justify bad behavior in another -- like what some Gurus have done to evade responsibility for obvious misdeeds and irresponsibility in "this" relative world by claiming "absolute" freedom or "absolute" automatism/slavery (take your pick; they're both true), or that they are just an innocent mirror. While all of this is true, it doesn't relieve them of accountability to maintain integrity and responsibility in this world. Even if one is on the "Hatred" (or "Wisdom") path of neti neti, discarding all "outside" and arriving emptily at Self alone, this path is probably best practiced with integrity, ALONE, BY ONESELF, for as long as it takes, as Jed McKenna nicely recommends -- not simply to be used as an excuse to try to wound others, vent bile, prove one's own superiority, and deny it all later because "it is all bliss" or "it is all the Self." Along the same lines, I believe it is very good to use the Mirror analysis (as Byron Katie recommends) to realize that all is indeed a drama of the Self, but that doesn't mean one will sit idly by while injustice is done "out there" -- as this too is "in here." It merely means the "charge" on our perception is removed; if action is really necessary we will act from love or wholeness rather than from hatred or denial. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
