There are so many facets to this essay. Typically we are taught to take this journey as a quest for enlightenment, learning how to be better, smarter, top notch. But I find the methods to learn to be all those things is simply that, idealized methodology.
The journey is not about self-improvement, but rather to observe experientially, without intent. And the more we observe without reservation, the more we see our own becoming. When we reach the mountain top and are awed by the view, we don't evaluate, judge, criticize, or try to alter what's before us, we seek to absorb, appreciate, and understand by merely having arrived. It's not for the personal gratification of our efforts getting there, it is more for what we receive, what is given, seeing raw expression.
You already know what you know, so reaching the top is a way to glimpse your understanding of the real Self, and what you are capable of. And you know this to be true because you wouldn't be able to recognize it, otherwise. Because you aren't questioning or second guessing it, you are just experiencing in a way that is Self-Realized and initiated.
But the return is the most important part, the journey isn't complete until you return to the beginning, not because you finished the journey, but because of what you have embraced, without question: the expansive you - the pure you, you have discovered along the way.
"It is a philosophy of fidelity." Great phrase, and that is it, exactly.
I'm not trying to proselytize here, even though it may sound like it. I just started to write off the top of my head about a perspective I have thought about a lot, and still don't remember it most of the time. And I broke the tendon in my little finger and didn't want to re-write it. :-)
Sometimes I just need to go on some sort of automatic pilot to exist and get through a day. Some days I just need to take a giant break and do nothing. Other days I am rearin' to go and just do it because I need to. It's all grist for the mill and takes listening to what it is one needs to do or not do. It. just. Is. and I respect the whatever of it all.
I've seen those. I had a best friend once who owned such a shirt. I love it. Love that word as it can mean so many things and give some attitude too or none at all!
There are so many facets to this essay. Typically we are taught to take this journey as a quest for enlightenment, learning how to be better, smarter, top notch. But I find the methods to learn to be all those things is simply that, idealized methodology.
The journey is not about self-improvement, but rather to observe experientially, without intent. And the more we observe without reservation, the more we see our own becoming. When we reach the mountain top and are awed by the view, we don't evaluate, judge, criticize, or try to alter what's before us, we seek to absorb, appreciate, and understand by merely having arrived. It's not for the personal gratification of our efforts getting there, it is more for what we receive, what is given, seeing raw expression.
You already know what you know, so reaching the top is a way to glimpse your understanding of the real Self, and what you are capable of. And you know this to be true because you wouldn't be able to recognize it, otherwise. Because you aren't questioning or second guessing it, you are just experiencing in a way that is Self-Realized and initiated.
But the return is the most important part, the journey isn't complete until you return to the beginning, not because you finished the journey, but because of what you have embraced, without question: the expansive you - the pure you, you have discovered along the way.
"It is a philosophy of fidelity." Great phrase, and that is it, exactly.
I'm not trying to proselytize here, even though it may sound like it. I just started to write off the top of my head about a perspective I have thought about a lot, and still don't remember it most of the time. And I broke the tendon in my little finger and didn't want to re-write it. :-)
Thanks for reminding me, Cecil.
What a good essay.
Sometimes I just need to go on some sort of automatic pilot to exist and get through a day. Some days I just need to take a giant break and do nothing. Other days I am rearin' to go and just do it because I need to. It's all grist for the mill and takes listening to what it is one needs to do or not do. It. just. Is. and I respect the whatever of it all.
My son was thinking about a tee shirt that just says WHATEVER
I've seen those. I had a best friend once who owned such a shirt. I love it. Love that word as it can mean so many things and give some attitude too or none at all!