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Originally Posted by rei  many spiritually minded people make a choice to abstain from distractions or experiences that would lower their vibration. they live a real life. i admit, being a ceiling surfer often means pretending you don't live in the world, but i think your point is a generalization YHN. |
Which is what it was meant to be (generalizations cannot be true 100% of the time). But there's a big difference between, "you can choose to forsake these things if it will help you grow" and "if you are to walk this path at all those things must be forbidden", which is very much what the Jedi Order taught until Luke took the reins.
Yes, I am a major nerd.
And I realize there are people who teach that you
have to give up certain things to move forward, that if you don't listen to them your efforts will never amount to anything, and so on. But my point is that, in reality, you will stunt your growth by following them because they are trying to take your power. Nobody worth listening to denies free will. They might go as far as to say, "well, if you want to achieve your aims we think that you won't be able to if you get romantically involved with someone" but they're lying if they say, "you will never achieve enlightenment if you have sex." So when I mentioned reality, what I meant is that you cannot progress through a system which demands that you lobotomize yourself, I wasn't saying there were no orders which endorsed that. And of course, there's a big difference between abstinence and undergoing a lobotomy, that difference being the presence or lack of denial. Suppression causes stagnation, acceptance allows you to transmute.