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Originally Posted by tekomino  Belief that your consciousness is indestructible and that nothing can harm you on that level is misguided. Every one thing has it opposite to define it. Without its extreme opposite there is no one. |
Well..Tekomino--hello!
Going to jump in here, on this Easter morning...
You have stated some potent truths in your recent posts here. But, at the risk of drawing energy away from the main discussion, I'd like to interject an idea.
What if...polarity was the struggle of the mind to make sense of the experiences we have. And, in the state of mind that is beyond consciousness (of which very few of us have any knowledge--mostly because we're caught in the web of the polarities) there is nothing, so there's nothing else.
My mind scrambles to make sense of that, because our world is constructed of polarity.
And so...partly in response to my monkey-mind, I host the monthly fire circles that I posted about! We sit around and eat good chocolate and drink red wine (sometimes right out of the bottle
) We laugh a lot. We talk about what our experiences are like...we don't get into too much philosophizing or theologizing...other than lived experience. Because the fire is about our heart's longings and joys. All faiths/non-faiths are welcome. The only requirement is respect for each other and the elemental spirit of the fire. The fire pit is under my ancient weeping birch tree, who has a disease called birch boring beetle...and the beetles are killing the tree one limb at a time. I treat the tree every spring (she just got her injections this week
)We will cut the dead limbs off, burn them in the fire later this year and tell the tree that she is lovely, with or without any particular branches. There's no LSD to be found--the strongest chemicals are in the wine, and maybe the chocolate! But we all feel altered by the power of connection--with each other and the fire, and the tree, etc. that goes beyond our minds' grasp. And we keep coming back, to learn from each other and the fire that holds all of it!
No answers to your existential questions, but heart-answers of patience, peace, and real joy (that I'll take any day over happiness!)
So that's all I know for today!
Sweet Re-births to all of you--
Myrabeth