Title: Blissful Emergent

Location: Dallas, TX

One exercise to reveal something of your true essense is to close your eyes and to think of your self in three words.  The words that came to me cluster around three ideas.  The first is a zen -like detachment or equality of feeling toward duality.  At least this gives me some comfort when I am against a difficult situation - to read or practice some Zen or absorb the ideas of Krishnamurti to detach myself from good/bad, or from success/failure.  The Equality also indicates my feeling that all human beings have equal ultimate value.  And all of life I respect.    The next is a romantic or erotic drive for some kind of unity. And the third is for knowledge,  as I seem to be on an endless inquiry after some kind of convergence.  I believe that as we learn, our knowledge starts to cluster and convergence on reality and towards a more generalized understanding. I could not stop this search if I wanted to,  especially the erotic drive for unity and the quest for knowledge.   So the three words to describe me would be Equal - Erotic - Knowledge.   The main problem of living seems to be to not cheat ourselves, so to speak - as we try to reach our true essential selves, and work toward our potential.

Recently, I have become a follower of Ekhart Tolle's ideas and also Daniel Odier's book Desire which discusses his work with Kashmir Shaivism. 

The following quotes describe some of the words that I care about - freedom, bliss, emergence, divinity, faith, mastery, transformation, bliss, interaction, creativity, art and communication.  I would say love, but that word is overused in my opinion - it is hard to tell what it means exactly - but in regards to love, I believe in a combination of agape and eros - although I can never seem to get the ratios correct.  

“The person who chooses the Infinite has been chosen by the Infinite.  They have received the divine touch without which there is not awakening, not opening of the spirit; but once it is received, attainment is sure, whether conquered swiftly in the course of one human life or pursued patiently through many stadia of the cycle of existence in the manifested universe.” (Sri Aurobindo)

“freedom is the final law and last consummation” (Sri Aurobindo)

“The ideal attitude towards Time is to have an endless patience as if you have all eternity for fulfilment and yet to develop the energy that shall realise now and with an-ever-increasing mastery and pressure of rapidity till it reaches the miraculous instantaneousness of the supreme divine Transformation.” (Sri Aurobindo)

“Aesthetic feeling, the power of artistic creation in one field or many fields together, talent or genius of literary expression, a faculty of metaphysical thinking, any power of eye or ear or hand or mind-power may awaken where none was apparent before.  The Divine within may throw these latent riches out from the depths in which they were hidden.” (Sri Aurobindo)

“When one has truly let go, a new life emerges..you become the One.” (Vernon Kitabu Turner) 

“When we act from our original nature, the act can be said to be spiritual, it is not self-conscious.” (Verson Kitabu Turner)

“the intrinsic pattern itself is agape, the active sharing of whatever is shareable, the Many interacting to make One. This is the nature of Being.  Being gives itself, it extends and expands Being. It tends to be in every possible way. It tends to elaborate - copy, vary, interact, select, combine, make next level wholes with emergent properties.  All this is natural.” (Beatrice Bruteau)

“the increase of human numbers combined with the improvement of human communications has fused all the parts of the noosphere together, has increased the tension within it, and has caused it to become “infolded” upon itself, and therefore more highly organized.  In the process of convergence and coalescence, what we may  metaphorically describe as the psychosocial temperature rises.  Men and Women as a whole will accordingly achieve more intense, more complex, and more integrated mental activity.”
(~Teillhard de Chardin, paraphrased by Julian Huxley)

“Behind there must be something in us, – much vaster, profounder, truer than superficial consciousness, – which takes delight impartially in all experiences; it is that delight which secretly supports the superficial mental being and enables it to persevere through all labours, sufferings and ordeals in the agitated movement of the Becoming.” (Sri Aurobindo)

“There is a vast Bliss-Self behind the limited mental self, and the latter is only a shadowy image and disturbed reflection of the fomer. The truth of ourselves lies within and not on the surface.” (Sri Aurobindo)

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