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Sanat · 12-05-2008, 05:39 PM

Thanks Allie and Micjer for those great sharings and insights! How cozy and nice it gets when we are not trying to convince, but simpy share things...

Self-Acceptance is a very good term for it indeed. It puts stronger emphasis on the fact that it is a process rather than a "doing". Growing up in this world so full of judgements and negativity, it's impossible not to be affected and shaped by it. But at a certain age we have the possability to work these things out of the system as our self-consciousness grows. Acceptance dissolves the rigid knots inside (the conditioning) one by one and thus we expand and melt deeper and deeper into our true nature/Identity which is beyond all conditioning and comparisons. The fear of judgements etc. contracts the ego into a sore paranoid lump of defensivness where anyone and the world is viewed as an "enemy" based on past/childhood hurtful experience with it.

It's almost impossible to grow up in this world without this contraction of the ego. And as you say; many never recover from it at all. Instead they live their lives pretending all is well, or worse; spreading/projecting their misery onto others. Thus given time the suffering accumulates and we end up having the world we live in today. Most people are simply children hiding behind an "adult" or "serious" mask. Their real development stopped sometime in childhood when the main contraction happened. One thing I observed being with a Master (i.e. a highly evolved Being) was that he always treated children with great respect as the adults they are becoming, and he very often treated "adults" as little children (thus meeting people at their real level of development).

Micjer:

It sounds like you are really developing a taste for meditation to me. That is very good. That is the great thing when you have your own experience of it. You become more and more independent and incorruptible by other peoples doubts and projections. Each man/woman is his/her own "church". There is no need for any religion. Clean out the fear/doubt/negativity and it will be more and more obvious who it is that has been there all along...

12-05-2008, 05:39 PM	#142
Sanat Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Norway Posts: 413	Re: What is 2012? (or "The Great Harvest") Thanks Allie and Micjer for those great sharings and insights! How cozy and nice it gets when we are not trying to convince, but simpy share things... Self-Acceptance is a very good term for it indeed. It puts stronger emphasis on the fact that it is a process rather than a "doing". Growing up in this world so full of judgements and negativity, it's impossible not to be affected and shaped by it. But at a certain age we have the possability to work these things out of the system as our self-consciousness grows. Acceptance dissolves the rigid knots inside (the conditioning) one by one and thus we expand and melt deeper and deeper into our true nature/Identity which is beyond all conditioning and comparisons. The fear of judgements etc. contracts the ego into a sore paranoid lump of defensivness where anyone and the world is viewed as an "enemy" based on past/childhood hurtful experience with it. It's almost impossible to grow up in this world without this contraction of the ego. And as you say; many never recover from it at all. Instead they live their lives pretending all is well, or worse; spreading/projecting their misery onto others. Thus given time the suffering accumulates and we end up having the world we live in today. Most people are simply children hiding behind an "adult" or "serious" mask. Their real development stopped sometime in childhood when the main contraction happened. One thing I observed being with a Master (i.e. a highly evolved Being) was that he always treated children with great respect as the adults they are becoming, and he very often treated "adults" as little children (thus meeting people at their real level of development). Micjer: It sounds like you are really developing a taste for meditation to me. That is very good. That is the great thing when you have your own experience of it. You become more and more independent and incorruptible by other peoples doubts and projections. Each man/woman is his/her own "church". There is no need for any religion. Clean out the fear/doubt/negativity and it will be more and more obvious who it is that has been there all along...