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What’s the purpose of corporeality in terms of growing through the wheel of ascents /descents?
It understood that as we progress , in terms of descents, our external challenges will more and more turn into internal challenges. And that if we keep our focus on being more aware of ascents and descents, and of seriously trying to adhere to the creator, the work will become more of an internal one. I feel, though, the external distractors which corporeality brings to be much more violant and harder to grow above than the internal ones.Therefore… can it also be the other way round… ? Or is it just a sign of spiritual „immaturity“ to have to go through those external challenges?
As I was reading the TES lectures , I wondered about what the term „substance“ means.
I understand, there is Existence out of absence refering to the will to receive , which is our substance. Because there is no wish to receive in the creator. Since the creator is everything, and we are opposite to him in our nature, then is our very substance that of being a lack, a void, (like a mini black hole)?
Hi Gianni. I have been reading Shamati 50, and I am wondering are we walking the two paths consecutively or can we be on both paths at the the same time? Can it be that internality moves us towards hastening time, whereas externality is exposing us to the typical challenges of the path of suffering, maybe even more forced than before we entered the path of truth? In that how should we relate to externality? Should we consider it irrelevant or relate to its impact as to whether or not it is nearing or distancing us from spirituality?
And I am sorry ,there is one more questions, I just really cannot get closer to that… although probably it has been answered a milliion times… in practice, what does it mean to bring contentment to the creator? What is the intention that I should have, in order to grow towards that? I feel I can grow towards love for the friends, and I have no issue seeing them greater as me, and I feel there is this sacred place in the ten… but that is a natural process, itś just happening… whatever action I do, whether participating in a workshop, preparing something… I do that with love, but I dońt feel myself in it, itś just a process, itś just happening as being part of this ten… so what does it need? Whereever the ten is, whereever the work is, whereever the creator is, there is no „me“… I dońt feel it… or if I feel it there is no creator (because then I am just in my ego, anyways). So, how can I bring contentment to the creator then? I dońt feel a „I“ in this…
Dear Gianni, thanks a lot for all the helpful answers in this forum . I read them, and I feel them to be very clarifying and a big help along the way:) There is one more thing… because I feel it to be really difficult to do in practice… how can I go through the day, and really stay in contact with the creator? I am trying to , and then life is happening… and there are so many impressions coming from corporeality… I remember you wrote to act like a responsible citizen, and internally stay focused on the creator… so I try to do that… But I also feel, how these impressions of corporeality absorb me just through their intensity… whether people, major incidents,… all these things. Is it right to think these are all reflections of my inner perception? Then, how am I supposed to relate to them or do I have to learn to not be impressed by all these things (but then, why are all these things happening if they dońt have any impact at all…is there anything to learn from these things, or is it just mere distractions?) And how am I supposed to relate to the people that have not been awakend yet? I understand from what you wrote, itś part of creation, that they are relying on us that we do our work properly… I also understand that as they have not been awakend yet, in a spiritual sense, they are not considered as part of the created being yet, because they are still walking blindly, guided from above. What does that mean for them, and for how I should relate to them? Is this a matter of dissemination? Or to rely on the fact that everyone is developed according to his own plan?
From Shamati 45 I understand , the fulfillment of a deficiency is work, and it’s part of the left line, as we want to fill a lack, and thus it’s a matter of reception. When we do the work this way, trying to fill those deficiencies , are these corrections? And then, how do we have to relate to the work so as to come to a correction? How do we work correctly?
And how do we get from working with a deficiency to working in order to bestow contentment to the creator?
