CONSCIOUSLY or unconsciously, every living creature seeks one thing. In the lower forms of life and in less advanced human beings, the quest is unconscious; in advanced human beings, it is conscious. The object of the quest is called by many names—happiness, peace, freedom, truth, love, perfection, Self-realization, God-realization, union with God. Essentially, it is a search for all of these, but in a special way. Everyone has moments of happiness, glimpses of truth, fleeting experiences of union with God; what they want is to make them permanent. They want to establish an abiding reality in the midst of constant change.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Establishing an Abiding Reality
The first chapter of Meher Baba's _Discourses_ sums up the journey to Truth quite nicely, I think:
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I like what cybernetics says we all seek: comfortable survival.
If all we seek is comfortable survival we may as well be dead.
It'z ol in ze mind!
Hi Don,
I think that might be good enough for some, maybe most, but it's not good enough for me.
I agree with Klaus. Once you've started to expand towards your potential, there's no turning back. Life becomes more enriched, more than just surviving.
Siegfried,
Maybe the Big Mind. :)
Hypnosis of Life!
Living to please others. Slavery!
Comfortable survival is a cybernetic concept concerning what motivates people to take immediate action, and after the feedback here I realize that it's inappropriate in this forum dealing with transcendence.
Survival of the fittest.
It happens everywhere.
How to survive with little.
How to live with money.
How to live without.
How to make God happy. Be happy!
Don,
Your thoughts and ideas are welcome here. They are not "inappropriate". :)
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