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I have long thought that “hope,” as important as it is, was never the right word. Far superior to a hopeful feeling is an understanding or vision that a person or group has the potential to work out of whatever dark and seemingly hopeless situation we find ourselves in. I had a down, fairly worthless, day yesterday, but I am old enough to have wisdom that if I simply have the dysphoric mood without letting it have me, I will most likely crawl out of the hole, perhaps even edge close to the Whole if I don’t react too much to the emotion or the appearances that fuel the emotion. Today is much better because I didn’t blow smoke up my ass yesterday. And yet I had a wise understanding of how we can get through seemingly impossible situations or states. Recognition of time (as in “time heals” and “this is not forever”) helped. The wisdom seems to involve allowing the neutral mind to take the reins. This effectiveness suggests the primacy of the Vedantic concept of “Causal Body.” Emotions are helpful and need to be experienced, but they are part of the energetic Subtle Body, intermediate, depth level of overall reality. Or perhaps they also have one foot in the Gross Body (“flesh”) on the surface. But the wisdom requires including the realities of the surface and intermediate zones of being. Otherwise, it is the defense mechanism of intellectualization.
When we conceptualize God and/or Christ as “Logos,” perhaps we are simply reminding ourselves just how important it is to embrace mind and use it to deal with emotions and physical reality. As long as we don’t use it to escape the reality we have all been born into (like it or not). The recent thread based on Vedantic and Logos concepts is certainly in line with the primacy of mind. When I say “mind,” however, I mean one that is open to a consciousness that surpasses regular, matter-oriented, thinking. Deep mind must be allowed to inform regular mind where imperfect copies of Plato’s Ideal Forms tend to predominate, or “Mia (sp?), Illusion, if you will.
What do you think? Is a mind a terrible thing to waste or allow to go under-utilized? Wisdom seems to stabilize us and keep us from getting stuck in pits that interfere with faith and enlightenment.
I’ll ask my other brother Darrell what he thinks about this!
When we conceptualize God and/or Christ as “Logos,” perhaps we are simply reminding ourselves just how important it is to embrace mind and use it to deal with emotions and physical reality. As long as we don’t use it to escape the reality we have all been born into (like it or not). The recent thread based on Vedantic and Logos concepts is certainly in line with the primacy of mind. When I say “mind,” however, I mean one that is open to a consciousness that surpasses regular, matter-oriented, thinking. Deep mind must be allowed to inform regular mind where imperfect copies of Plato’s Ideal Forms tend to predominate, or “Mia (sp?), Illusion, if you will.
What do you think? Is a mind a terrible thing to waste or allow to go under-utilized? Wisdom seems to stabilize us and keep us from getting stuck in pits that interfere with faith and enlightenment.
I’ll ask my other brother Darrell what he thinks about this!
