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Originally Posted by JohnR  I think a person becomes a lightworker as a natural progression of their awareness. As awareness develops, you experience first-hand that we are one. I know that sounds trite, but trite is also true in this case. |
this is what I like to think.
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These experiences can build gradually, or in the case of what in Zen circles is called Kensho, they can come suddenly and powerfully.
However they arrive, after a while, people who experience life in this way, can't help but feel what others feel, and care about others the same as they would about themselves. To them there is no difference.
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I also find I care about myself more at the same time as I feel that I care about others. It seems to me to be a mutual caring that doesn't focus on me or other, but rather is bringing the ability to care to a clearer level. In other words, I don't really see that when I care for myself this is for me only, and at the same time when I care for someone else, I start to take care of myself better too.
The converse is when I am in the dumps and am acting recklessly or not caring about myself - and in that case I don't care about anyone else either.
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So, being a lightworker in that sense is really not a choice, as much as it is a result of other choices which may have been more, shall we say selfish.
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are you saying, selfish choices results in being a lightworker. I lost your train of thought on that.
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Selfishness is sometimes the power behind self exploration. In that way, perhaps instead of being a polar opposite, the darkworker phase may be a step toward being a lightworker -- for some. Others may not be able to move beyond that phase.
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I think this way too. that one needs to know theirselves to some level before being able to care much. and the knowing of one's self makes you see what you are capable of in terms of caring and then that effects you and others, I think. especially if what becomes of knowing the self expands your sense of self to not be exclusive. like your consciousness is expanding.
I think easier this way, then all the DW/LW NCPs definitions with need to choose one or the other. There really isn;t a choice, other than do you want to care or not. And then it's really about do you want to suffer more or less, because caring is an antidote to suffering, I think.