Written by Mathew Naismith
I do
receive some interesting queries and replies at times that send me off writing
again, it's as though some people are able to incite the inner most awareness
from other people without much effort.
Sorry
for this Mike, you started me off again which isn't unusual for you; you seem
to have a knack, an ability for it.
Enlightenment:
Education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge.
(Hinduism
and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation;
characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual
consciousness.
Enlightenment
to me is of a state of the extinction of desire and suffering and individual
consciousness that is reached through awareness. Could a collective
consciousness, as opposed to an individual consciousness, become this aware?
Looking from a human perspective, I would say no. Looking from a more open and
aware consciousness, most probably and likely.
Indeed
Mike, 3 dimensional realities consist of both polarities, after all it's these
polarities, and at times opposing polarities, that create 3 dimensional
realities like this. We do have a choice to be either expressive of opposing or
unifying polarities or both. Our present human reality is imbalanced because
there are few unifying expressive polarities being expressed; it's either one
or the other in opposition to the other to an extreme.
If I
was to counteract the negative opposing polarities, people and their
expression, with extreme positivity, does this give balance to a reality? There
is no balance to be had in separation, only further imbalance; it's basically
what a lot of new age spiritually aware people are doing.
Imagine
an old fashion scale; one side represents positive and the other negative. Now
imagine the positive being further extended on the arm than the negative, how
is this balance? It's the same if both polities of a scale were excessively extended,
the further away both polarities are away from each other, the harder it is to
obtain balance. The last thing we should be doing is distancing (separating)
ourselves from the whole, from the pole that holds the arm of the scale. The
closer we are to the pole, the easier it is to obtain balance.
You
could look at the pole and the base of the scale representing the source of
creation (God), the closer we become to this pole (the creative source), the
easier it is to obtain balance in any dimension. You can't ascend into another
so-called higher dimension without first being accepting, especially if the
dimension is of unconditional love. How can you become unconditionally loving
without first being unconditionally accepting? This is exactly what a lot of
people are trying to do, become unconditionally loving void of being unconditionally
accepting period. In actuality, people who are supposed to be more
unconditionally loving, void of being unconditionally accepting, have less and
less acceptance, not more acceptance.
It
would seem on their part we are simply against these people and their
ideologies, this couldn't be further from the truth, it is the way they think
sadly enough. We are simply trying to help them to become aware that you can't
be unconditionally loving without first becoming unconditionally accepting,
even and especially while in a 3rd dimensional reality.
Acceptance
doesn't mean we have to become what you accept, it simply means accepting what
is for what it is. We know not what we do, if we did, we simply couldn't and
wouldn't do it; this is the way it is.
Can
we ascend (evolve) to a more aware consciousness in turn giving us piece on
Earth? If our consciousness is going to
stay 3 dimensional, I would say not. We must evolve on from being of human
consciousness, what a lot of people call ascend, to obtain this on a collective
scale, a huge ask. It would have to take a huge shift in consciousness, a shift
away from being non-unconditionally accepting to start with. As we personally
know ourselves Mike, this is not easy under the present circumstances.
Kim
Passie also brought foreword some interesting queries within his remarks.
My Reply
Human perception is that neutrality is
between negative and positive, it's the balancing force between negative and
positive like old fashion scales. This is true in a sense.
However, neutrality is an entity all of its own, it's not really a part
of negative and positive but it can balance out negatives and positives.
Negative and positive acting/being as one is simply neutrality, it basically
neutralises negatives and positives in a state they are no longer needed
in.
Indeed Kim, just because neutrality can exist between positive and negative,
doesn't make it of positive and negative, it's a completely different entity.
It's like a triangle; neutrality is the pinnacle of the triangle so neutrality
is indeed above positive and negative. Neutrality is between negative and
positive but more importantly above more than between.
If neutrality was on the same line
or level as
positive and negative, you could clearly say neutrality is between positive and
negative but as you say it's not, not really.
Reply
Wow Mathew <3 This is
Onderfully put.... I actually felt this, this morning <3 I realized
that neutrality can be seen as the space in which positive and negative
happen...
My Reply
Well stated Kim, you seem to have
grasped wisdom very well. To comprehend wisdom is one thing, to understand
wisdom is another. You can tell who is really aware and who isn't in the
queries and remarks they express. The people who have wisely learnt from their
environment instead of suffered from their environment. You seem to have
stopped suffering from your environment, you have basically neutralised the
environment around you it would seem.
A good example of suffering is excessive
positivity in counteraction to suffering. Suffering has created a reaction of
excess positivity, in actuality the positivity in this case is primarily based
on negative suffering. There is a difference between negative and positive
suffering. What is neutrality based on? Neither or both in neutrality to each
other, this is why this state is so aware; there are no biases to start with.
Today's westernised spirituality is all
about feeling good, usually in counteraction to the suffering, insurmountable
biases. How do caring loving parents treat their children? They will suffer for
their children so their children may not suffer, they will often give while
going without themselves, is this negative?
Spirituality, wisdom and awareness isn't
all about us feeling good, it's about finding a balance in life while suffering
yourself to save others from suffering at times, like caring loving parents. Is
suffering negative when we learn from it and give so much? Feeling good quite
naturally occurs when we become aware of this neutral state; this is without feeling
good on the back of suffering. This feel good isn't based on suffering but a
state of neutrality as neutrality isn't in counteraction to anything.
Good to hear that you don't just
comprehend neutrality but understand it too.