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Originally Posted by John Freestone  This is the sad thing about getting it the wrong way round: instead of learning to appreciate how mysterious the universe is and developing humility about how incredibly bad we are at knowing it or ourselves, instead of recognising that knowing It will require some kind of new consciousness and getting on with our meditation, instead of sitting with silence and peace, we often just grasp at the idea of having more control over our destiny. Instead of the real potential of the ancient spiritual teaching, we take the message that we're getting nearer to becoming gods. And there's always someone ready to tell you you've been kept back from being godlike by your social conditioning (overlooking the fact that this progress towards godlike control of the world is one of its major features). |
I like what you wrote a lot! It does seem like the LoA movement is being "used" as an ego trip to get "stuff" that the ego thinks will help it be happy. And I try to post ideas just like you wrote that we are to be humble not controlling and allow. So maybe this is off topic now. What was this thread?
Oh, SR and the environment - I would hope the SR concept brings more reverance to the environment which is similar to becoming humble and not looking to control the world, or become god like in a sense. Our ego selves are not to become more detacted from what is not in our imediate awareness.
If you toss litter by the side of the road and pretend to forget about it, as an application of Steve's SR idea, then that is not (I hope) what he meant. That tossing of litter even if it happened years ago is still part of you. Our awareness has memory, that memory is part of your SR. How you feel about those memories is what can change but anything from the past is still part of how you got to where you are now, every little bit.
If you were saw the tree fall in the forest and heard the sound, that is part of you subjective reality. That is a different take on the "if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there, did it make a sound?"