[wolfgang]

Originally Posted by yossarian

With respect to the ideas on awareness and Oneness:

As awareness increases, so does temptation. Awareness of the Oneness increases yes, but it is a holographic universe. Awareness of the Inner Divinity also increases. As you become aware that Others are God, you also become aware that You are God. And you are still presented with The Choice.

As you polarize, your power naturally increases. You hold stronger influences over people, your intuition is more powerful, you are more decisive, more intelligent, more driven...

As you polarize to the light side this happens, but polarizing to the dark - does that require addressing your light side and loving that aspect? I don't care about that idea 'cause it makes little sense to go dark or stay dark. It does make sense to go light, in the way of awareness and I like what you say about how that brings temptation up. So then it's not to fracture yourself to go to the light, but to recognize the dark side at bring that aspect around or realize the dark side is an illusion of some kind, not really needed to operate in it's full blown mode.

But you are still imperfect, and are still subject to the body/mind with it's cravings and aversions and conditioning.

Perhaps in meditation you can be wholly compassionate through awareness of Oneness but inevitably, somewhere when you least expect it, you are presented with The Choice because it is human destiny to make The Choice.

If The Choice was easy to make it wouldn't be given to you. You'll have to dispell the inner demons, you'll have to make peace with the monsters. The wise man will invite the monsters in for tea but not allow them to speak. He will invite them in with patience and love and then he will consciously and powerfully make his choice.

The further you polarize the harder it gets. As Steve gets richer and more powerful he is presented with more and more complex and alluring temptation. No doubt there are aspects of his darkside that surface which he had no idea were there. His task is to love them and accept them, and then to consciously choose, and thereby overcome them.

overcome? or is it more like integrate them? or dispel them for what they are, by once seeing them in the light, they aren't really what you thought they were?

"What you resist, persists." - Eckhart Tolle

that is because it gets pushed out as "not me" and sits there as something that only exists in contrast to "me", as soon as all the monsters are brought in for tea, it's like they take off their amour at the door to come in and are not something outside to fear and reject that might be something of ourselves that we don't want to admit to. something like that, maybe?

The positive polarity is like Aikido. You don't attack your opponent you recruit him.

cool, so it is with tai chi that I know of. we do "push hands" where there is training to sense the other's position of yin/yang and cooperate by supplying the complement of either yang for yin, such that there is a whole between the two. but there is not much training for trying to conquer in tai chi. one teacher once said if a tai chi master gets in a fight, they just keep blending with the attacker in such a way that the attacker will just get too tired to fight anymore.

Be like the Buddhist Master and when craving, aversion, fear, temptation, anger, hate, or annoyance arises, just sit with it and be aware. That's all it takes. Don't fight. Just sit with it. After sitting with it for awhile, consciously make your choice.

thank you, good reminders.