Thanks Rory. My responses to your responses below: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" <roryg...@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" <whynotnow7@> wrote: > As for devotion, someone said that in the midst of unity duality is created > for the enjoyment of experiencing devotion. That pretty well sums it up for > me. > > > > > > I don't know whether God is real to me. The term "God" is pretty > > > amorphous anyway, similar to discussions about what "enlightenment" > > > means. So I tend to focus on one deity at a time - lol. Are they real? I > > > don't know. They feel like it to me. On the other hand, perhaps they are > > > wholly created imaginings of mine, solely created for me to experience > > > and enjoy humility, thankfulness, gratitude, > unconditional love, etc. Who knows? > > Nicely put, Jim. For me, this was the way beyond the rudderlessness of > "That-alone-is" -- > (1) take full responsibility for my creation as it is in this moment,
** That finally seems intuitively obvious to me - lol. This is more like an operating principle vs. a localized action, though frequent reminders to myself don't hurt :-) > ( > 2) find the outstanding remnant-of-desire which is unhappy with my creation > in this moment, ** I never thought of it before but prayer, or more specifically willful and pure attunement to a deity, could be seen as a response to an inner need, a desire to enlarge my container of consciousness in order to eventually find a solution to the unhappy remnant of desire. Not through control, but through expansion aka getting out of my own way - lol > (3)"create" a deity to meet the needs of that desire, ** This process is something like humming a tune I really like and then having a song that closely matches that come into my awareness. Nothing static as both my vibration and the resonance with the deity change as I change - In other words the deity is not always the same one. > (4)surrender in all honesty to the intense attention-flow, love-flow, and > devotion-flow between particle-me and the newly-incarnate deity-me (now far > more than "just" my creation), to achieve that desire. **Yes, the satisfaction of that desire is not always immediate, though the inner adjustment may be. > > (5)This attention-flow flushes out and brings into full awareness the ancient > programs or particles (primarily of undeservingness) in the body-mind which > had been creating the old status-quo reality. Once brought to full awareness, > they are no longer believed, and > > (6) the new reality is embodied and experienced. > > An old friend of mine recently had an "Aha" about this process, and described > it as yagya! I would agree with that. **Me too. >
