Quote:
Originally Posted by wolfgang  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. |
It's not about the world that may be out there, it's all about your world in here. Dense physical reality is full of everything in this moment in this container, consciousness. But the container is here right now and no where else. How can consciousness be off throughout the galaxy creating and maintaining everything and still here in this moment?...........it's not or at least I don't believe it is.
I consider that existance is inside a container of sorts and we, through conscious choice choose what's in that container, including the observation point (your human bean) to observe conscious creation.
The benefits of container theory are.........
Nothing outside of (your) container exists, so it doesn't matter.
You can choose what to place inside the container, like money, love, health, rain, pain, suffering, whatever.
Nothing can ever hurt you inside the container because you created everything inside.
You create and can therefore change anything inside, time, growth, people, environment, etc.
The container is consciousness, the container is you.
Max