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Strangely, I think that anarchy and wholeness belong together. I think that when we think we have "found" we are lost. It is Reality that finds us, and Reality is always movement, radical freedom.
I can trace all this, in a way, back to the words of Thomas Merton when he was speaking of the Shakers, when he wrote....
The Shakers remain as witnesses to the fact that only humility keeps us in communion with truth, and first of all with our own inner truth. This one must know without knowing it, as they did. For as soon as we become aware of "our truth" we let go of it and embrace an illusion.
Possibly there will always be a degree of "anarchy" 😀 . In my own often stumbling path I remember, way back, gaining a minor form of liberation when someone spoke of having contradictions in their lives/words/beliefs pointed out to them. They said that this no longer caused them any concern, that sometimes we just have to live with "truths" that apparently contradict each other. Each seems "true" to us at any one time and need acknowledgement. Perhaps the point is, if we do not cling too tight to the exact expression, in time the "contradictions" resolve themselves at a "higher" (or perhaps more fundamental) level.
Dogen, the zen guy, has said that though nothing in the entire universe is concealed, nevertheless there is a movement forever forward into a greater intimacy with Reality-as-is. Which I have faith is healing, non-judgemental, full of gifts and grace.
I can trace all this, in a way, back to the words of Thomas Merton when he was speaking of the Shakers, when he wrote....
The Shakers remain as witnesses to the fact that only humility keeps us in communion with truth, and first of all with our own inner truth. This one must know without knowing it, as they did. For as soon as we become aware of "our truth" we let go of it and embrace an illusion.
Possibly there will always be a degree of "anarchy" 😀 . In my own often stumbling path I remember, way back, gaining a minor form of liberation when someone spoke of having contradictions in their lives/words/beliefs pointed out to them. They said that this no longer caused them any concern, that sometimes we just have to live with "truths" that apparently contradict each other. Each seems "true" to us at any one time and need acknowledgement. Perhaps the point is, if we do not cling too tight to the exact expression, in time the "contradictions" resolve themselves at a "higher" (or perhaps more fundamental) level.
Dogen, the zen guy, has said that though nothing in the entire universe is concealed, nevertheless there is a movement forever forward into a greater intimacy with Reality-as-is. Which I have faith is healing, non-judgemental, full of gifts and grace.
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Renkon · 41-45, M
@FaithdevidesusDeathunitesus Ok. Thank you for pointing me to that. How do I access the library?
FaithdevidesusDeathunitesus · 41-45, F
@Renkon I'll PM you
Renkon · 41-45, M
@FaithdevidesusDeathunitesus That would nice. Thank you.
Iwantout · 26-30, M
Don't trust me what's the best you can gain from that path to be queen of s*** mountain it's better to try to be the best person you can be I say that is someone that has walked both paths lived and died
DesiDudeJ04 · 26-30, M
Devil worship or Atheism?
Or
Moving away from self or ignoring?
Or
Moving away from self or ignoring?
DesiDudeJ04 · 26-30, M
@FaithdevidesusDeathunitesus way towards?
FaithdevidesusDeathunitesus · 41-45, F
@DesiDudeJ04 Comeing to terms with your sexuality, hey man it's 2023, society is alot more accepting these days
DesiDudeJ04 · 26-30, M
@FaithdevidesusDeathunitesus and what about my sexuality?
Ceinwyn · 26-30, F
If you’re a part of organised religion, there’s no anarchy.
FaithdevidesusDeathunitesus · 41-45, F
@Ceinwyn I am not part of anything organized by another man, I'm under God's rule and God's rule only
Ceinwyn · 26-30, F
@FaithdevidesusDeathunitesus Based on a book written by men.
FaithdevidesusDeathunitesus · 41-45, F
@Ceinwyn My knowledge is innate, born with it, never need a book to tell me it's wrong to kill my momma or fuck my neighbors wife, some how I was born already knowing this
Dolimyte · 41-45, M
Nothing wrong with that.
Ferric67 · M
Me too