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Originally Posted by Max Power  If we forget about SR for the moment and look at life just as a day to day existance thing, then it's not very empowering (IMO) to consider everything that's going on outside of present moment awareness.
While it's nice to consider the beauty and wonderful things going on in the world outside of your awareness, most people focus on the tragedy and horror rather than the beauty.
The more we place ourselves outside of the moment, the more power we give up to control our moment.
Max |
Then are you saying that it is better to keep your sphere of awareness limited? Are you saying it is better to be like an ostrich with your head in the sand, and be happy about that level of exposure to surroundings? Isn't the whole point of living to figure out how to feel more connected? The way to feel more connected might be to imagine outside of our normal day to day awareness, otherwise we are ostriches with our head in the sand.
I know Steve wrote about not watching the news and that he thinks that is a good thing because then the bad stuff doesn't have to effect you directly. I think that is kind of irresponsible, actually. Let's all be monks in some isolated monistary then and be enlightened only about the garden in side the walls.
I do agree with the world awareness and the usual habitual focus people have.
"I saw the news today, oh boy[....]
He blew his mind out in a car
He didn't notice that the lights had changed
A crowd of people stood and stared"
So the issue is to be able to expand awareness and also drop judgements or be able to not label things as horrible or wonderful. This is what being in the moment is like. I'll add that the present moment awareness does expand your awareness, it may not give you news briefs but the connection to life is fuller, using more of the spectrum of how a human can be connected, as a spiritual being. I've come close and it's difficult because I'll feel the pain of the world, so I pull back and put my head in the sand again. I don't think that the pain I get is because I know there's a war somewhere because of news. There is a feeling that comes into me when I have expanded my sense of self to my sourroundings. But also the expansion goes beyond what our normal senses pick up, beyond my normal day to day sphere. It can become a oneness that includes everything from a spiritual perspective. The oneness like this doesn't make me aware of the tree falling in the woods, but it does contain some sort of feeling of trees falling.