Coming from a rather hard-line AwakeSoulism/Buddhism … I’m arguing this point, but not from a Western perspective…
: )
Your life is your Continuum’s/Soul’s current-means.
It, probably unconsciously, wanted some experiencing.
So, it got itself caught in incarnation: in conception-of-a-life.
& YOU are the result, the means of its having what it felt it wanted.
This is true for all lives: no life exists without its continuum/soul being caught in it.
Orienting to the continuums/souls, instead of orienting to the individual-lives, means that one can then accept that this-life/“me” is just a means for a particular continuum/soul to get some of its meaning.
It puts “me” in its place, in proper-perspective.
It means that all the continuums/souls which unconsciously got themselves caught in lives which got holocausted, in the Inquisition, in the Black Death, in the holocausting of Rwanda, or Nanking, or of the American Indians, of Africans & Black Americans, or of the Hittites that the original Hebrews annihilated, ( 6 or 7 holocaustings listed in their bible ), or of the Jews ( 6x, ttbomk, through the ages )…
all of these were instances of unconscious souls getting themselves in lives that were going to get holocausted, … mostly because the continuums/souls getting themselves caught in these lives wouldn’t believe that within-life experience is “real”.
Something like “that isn’t real: I’ll PROVE it isn’t real: I’ll get caught in that kind of life, & it won’t matter, I won’t care, & that’ll prove that it’s only-appearance, that it isn’t real!” … then the continuum/soul gets itself caught in that kind of life, & then that life gets destroyed, & then the soul is only part of a sentience-duality, now…
part of the meaning/awareness is on the level of an unconscious-soul, the other is the sentience that it had been caught-in.
So, now it has to keep getting caught in lives, until it can integrate the caught-in-lives sentience with the soul-sentience.
& that’s all that “enlightenment” is: integration, but not between different shards-of-personality in an MPD ( multiple-personality-disorder, nowadays probably called dissociation ) life, rather, it is between the soul & the sentiences-of-the-lives-it-gets-caught-in.
The Hindu Ramana Maharshi did it: “there’s a level of meditation so profound that there’s no Self left in it: that level of profound awareness is G-D” would be a good approximation of what he told us. ( Maharshi’s Gospel, a collection of discussions with him, booked by a student of his: he never published anything, himself )
Hindu, Buddhist, Maya, Rosicrucian, it completely doesn’t matter which tradition it is that tells the same fundamental-truth: it’s the same fundamental-truth.
Conscious continuums/souls don’t get themselves caught in incarnations, anymore: they woke-up from the soul-unconsciousness, the “dream”, & simply don’t need the matter-bound experiencing, anymore.
Lives are only the means of souls.
All our self-centrism, all our racial-narcissism, all our national-narcissisms, all our personal-narcissisms, all that is delusion/pretence of ego/narcissism.
Which, itself, is the means of getting coarse-experience, which eventually enforces one’s soul/continuum into earning refinement, which eventually enforces that it earn enlightenment…
All continuums/souls realize: as Buddha Gautama said: “when you realize just how perfect everything is, the only thing left is to tilt your head back into the sky, & laugh”.
It’s true.
sow-reap law, aka karma, is perfect: souls which emit ANY meaning, get THAT meaning back on them, until they grow-up enough to stop emitting meaning, then they purify the remaining accounts, then they step beyond unconscious-committing.
Lives are the means of souls: without lives, how would souls ever be able to earn their own growing-up?
Individuals must always be treated as ends, never as means. Animals are individuals, too.
Coming from a rather hard-line AwakeSoulism/Buddhism … I’m arguing this point, but not from a Western perspective…
: )
Your life is your Continuum’s/Soul’s current-means.
It, probably unconsciously, wanted some experiencing.
So, it got itself caught in incarnation: in conception-of-a-life.
& YOU are the result, the means of its having what it felt it wanted.
This is true for all lives: no life exists without its continuum/soul being caught in it.
Orienting to the continuums/souls, instead of orienting to the individual-lives, means that one can then accept that this-life/“me” is just a means for a particular continuum/soul to get some of its meaning.
It puts “me” in its place, in proper-perspective.
It means that all the continuums/souls which unconsciously got themselves caught in lives which got holocausted, in the Inquisition, in the Black Death, in the holocausting of Rwanda, or Nanking, or of the American Indians, of Africans & Black Americans, or of the Hittites that the original Hebrews annihilated, ( 6 or 7 holocaustings listed in their bible ), or of the Jews ( 6x, ttbomk, through the ages )…
all of these were instances of unconscious souls getting themselves in lives that were going to get holocausted, … mostly because the continuums/souls getting themselves caught in these lives wouldn’t believe that within-life experience is “real”.
Something like “that isn’t real: I’ll PROVE it isn’t real: I’ll get caught in that kind of life, & it won’t matter, I won’t care, & that’ll prove that it’s only-appearance, that it isn’t real!” … then the continuum/soul gets itself caught in that kind of life, & then that life gets destroyed, & then the soul is only part of a sentience-duality, now…
part of the meaning/awareness is on the level of an unconscious-soul, the other is the sentience that it had been caught-in.
So, now it has to keep getting caught in lives, until it can integrate the caught-in-lives sentience with the soul-sentience.
& that’s all that “enlightenment” is: integration, but not between different shards-of-personality in an MPD ( multiple-personality-disorder, nowadays probably called dissociation ) life, rather, it is between the soul & the sentiences-of-the-lives-it-gets-caught-in.
The Hindu Ramana Maharshi did it: “there’s a level of meditation so profound that there’s no Self left in it: that level of profound awareness is G-D” would be a good approximation of what he told us. ( Maharshi’s Gospel, a collection of discussions with him, booked by a student of his: he never published anything, himself )
Hindu, Buddhist, Maya, Rosicrucian, it completely doesn’t matter which tradition it is that tells the same fundamental-truth: it’s the same fundamental-truth.
Conscious continuums/souls don’t get themselves caught in incarnations, anymore: they woke-up from the soul-unconsciousness, the “dream”, & simply don’t need the matter-bound experiencing, anymore.
Lives are only the means of souls.
All our self-centrism, all our racial-narcissism, all our national-narcissisms, all our personal-narcissisms, all that is delusion/pretence of ego/narcissism.
Which, itself, is the means of getting coarse-experience, which eventually enforces one’s soul/continuum into earning refinement, which eventually enforces that it earn enlightenment…
All continuums/souls realize: as Buddha Gautama said: “when you realize just how perfect everything is, the only thing left is to tilt your head back into the sky, & laugh”.
It’s true.
sow-reap law, aka karma, is perfect: souls which emit ANY meaning, get THAT meaning back on them, until they grow-up enough to stop emitting meaning, then they purify the remaining accounts, then they step beyond unconscious-committing.
Lives are the means of souls: without lives, how would souls ever be able to earn their own growing-up?
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