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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?
Hi Gianni,
In Shamati 43, what does”reward” mean?Is it adherence to the creator, feeling oneness/unity? And punishment the opposite-detachment from the creator?
I understand , we have to labour, and we should not be afraid to ask for labor, but can we also ask for help along the way, to be able to do the work? What do we do when we feel not able to overcome the obstacles given to us or when we feel like we don’t know how to work correctly?
And then there is one last thing I… what does it mean that “these corporeal things extend from their upper roots”… ? How are we supposed to relate to this… for we are in a world of branches..
Thanks for getting back to me. How can I know when I just have to work harder, or when I have reached a limit…one that I cannot cross? One where I simply need the creator to help me?
And how can I ask the creator for help … not help to back away from the work… but help to understand and be able to live up to the deficiencies he is giving me?
I am willing to do my share…I just really don’t know how to handle this state of feeling that indeed we all ARE connected, we ARE one, and yet, most people cannot feel it or don’t have the desire to feel it. This world of disconnection feels so wrong. What is the work in this, given awareness that it’s a matter of perception, but equally given to have to be part of this shattered way of existence?
