Written by Mathew Naismith
Where most spiritual teachings, especially
Eastern teachings, teach and guide us to express less motions through practices
and awareness like meditation and oneness, we are expressing more motions and
not just in the West.
I was thinking of winding back my
interactions, my own motions, for a while, thinking that my readers and I need
time out, my dreams stated otherwise last night. One dream seemed quite long on
the subject of our excessive/extreme reactions. It is psychologically
understandable that a consciousness that judges parts of humanity as negative
and even toxic or demonic, will desire to feel better by any means. This
includes means that express excessive/extreme motions in reaction.
Let's be honest, love and light and
positive thinking is in counteraction, a reaction to what we perceive to be
negative, toxic, demonic, etc. What would our reactions be if we didn't judge
certain parts of humanity as being all these things? The odds are that we
wouldn't be as expressive of excessiveness/extremes as we are now. What occurs
when a white man judges a black man being negative in any sense to the white
man? This kind of action usually creates a reaction of excessiveness/extremes.
In all honesty, are not a lot of us doing the same by expressing a simular
mentality towards a judged negative? This is exactly why I often state about
staying away from the perceptions of negatives and positives as much as
possible.
In truth, people like me compare the suns
violence and destructiveness to man, we observe humanity comes nowhere near to
the motions expressed by the sun. So if the sun isn't judged as being negative,
toxic and demonic, etc, why are parts of humanity so critically judged in this
way? In truth, our reactions wouldn't be as excessive/extreme as they are today,
within this, we wouldn't judge humanity so critically. Humanity is what it is,
neither perfect nor totally imperfect, just simply lost within its own creation
in certain areas and circumstances. Yes, some of our programs, our isms and
ideologies, are infected with the virus excessiveness/extremism as explained in
my previous posts, however, we can rectify this.
The following interaction between Carolyn
and me is on the topic materialism, how materialism is all about the feel good
industry at the cost of humanity as a whole. I should state that when we become
more aware, feeling good within ourselves and the feel of love and light comes
naturally. Instead of materially/physically primarily focusing on love and
light and positive thinking in excess and reaction, we spiritually focus on
awareness and wisdom that naturally creates love and light and a
positive/constructive reality. Imagine creating a more constructive reality
that isn't based on excessive/extreme reactions, in other words on far less
motions!! Let's be honest, the more motion we create, the more destructive we
become, it's the natural law of motion/inertia.
http://teachertech.rice.edu/Participants/louviere/Newton/law1.html
Carolyn's
Reply
Very interesting Mathew - as always. I wonder if a
possible root of materialism is anything to do with Darwin
Reply
Good
question Carolyn. Is it of natural law that the fittest will prevail over all
else within a material world? I would have to say yes, I would be lying to
myself if I said otherwise.
Is
the natural law of spirituality also not of the survival of the fittest? In
this case the survival of the most aware within a materialistic reality. In
saying this, will the people solely of materialism prevail in the end?
Materialism
seems to totally rely on how good we feel; of course how good we feel has
become our primary objective, leaving awareness and wisdom way behind in being
our primary objective. Awareness tells us to chastise (guide) our children for
their own benefit in the long run. Feeling good tells us to not chastise our
children for the sake of us feeling good within the present. Chastising
children for their own good is also a negative it would seem these days!!
Indeed
Carolyn, in a material/physical world, the laws of the survival of the fittest
are absolute, however, what is truly defined as being the fittest? I don't
think materialistic feel good isms and ideologies (programs) define the fittest
in my mind. Yes, within the present but the energy they use is soon used up as
awareness is virtually non-existent. We need awareness to wisely know how to
use energy within a physical material existence, this is clearly not
occurring.
As I
have said in a previous post, we are a consciousness lost within its own
creation, a creation based primarily on feeling good!!
I
often find your queries quite compelling Carolyn, a sign of conscious maturity
(awareness) in my mind. I often relate conscious maturity to conscious awareness;
it's pleasant to see this within you.
Carolyn's
Reply
Thank you Mathew!
You are always inspiring!
Yes I agree in the
survival of the most aware - perhaps the riches we seek are inner ones.
It is interesting what you say about children, as a primary school teacher I see more and more parents unwilling to guide their children, even young ones - it is as if nothing much matters - I notice the 'it doesn't matter' mentality all around these days.
It is interesting what you say about children, as a primary school teacher I see more and more parents unwilling to guide their children, even young ones - it is as if nothing much matters - I notice the 'it doesn't matter' mentality all around these days.
Maybe if we could
all sit with our own feelings in moments of stillness we could get to know
ourselves better and begin to form healthy relationships with the environment
and each other, and ourselves? Just mulling! :)
Reply
A
very good example why I saver our friendship. Good one Carolyn, well explained
as always.
