For the time being, I can distinguish 2 different groups of kinds of people. There may be sub-categories in each group, however the difference between these major personality traits that puts each individual in column A or B is quite simple. While it may be a easily said and distinguished feature, there are many more that make it all the more obvious.
In western culture, it is as if our lives are run by script, what we say and do is defined by our life experiences, therefore we only know our life, our meaning and by our own terms, we act on those principals and values which gives the outcome of our destiny, how we choose to act from moment to moment defines our self.
Perhaps every kind of person is scripted, despite their heritage. If this is true, then I think we can distinguish which one offers more value to our dreams and goals, rather than living a dream that is not so beneficial for the individual or any other being. On a spiritual or mental level.
Almost everything we as a culture have knowledge about is what we are told is beneficial to learn, and to teach to others. It is advertised in television and the Internet. It is kind of like showing groups of people picture cards with subliminal messaging encoded into each picture, once the slide show presentation of these images is finished the crowds converse about what they have seen, what it means to them. The messages are successfully transmitted through the pictures to the viewer and then that person will play back what they learnt. Depending on what the message in the pictures showed will determine a particular outcome. I would like to mention that there is nothing "wrong" with whats being done, however for every action there is consequence. For every action you have, every word you speak in what-ever manner, there will be consequence. You're life is determined by you're actions which defines you're own path along life.
I watched a lecture from a "wisdom keeper" not so long ago, these wisdom keepers are kind of like the most highly trained shamans (I think) more to the point, she spoke of the next years to come in relation to the bob on a fishing line.. It has 2 sides, one side is white and the other is red, and one of course sits above water, and the other under. She said that sometime soon, the bobble will flip back over to whichever side.
It can also be put in contrast with 2 camps in 1 world. One camp is bigger than the other, and people are leaving that camp and coming to this new camp, and at some stage, the other camp will become bigger than the other.
I think that, for too long, we have let our lives be run by western culture. There is no connected culture group decision, on a global scale on what we do with our resources anymore, the pictures presented to us through screens make individuals serve the whim of greed. We are not presented with true facts, only what we ought to hear. And the consequence for that is pain and unhealthy beings.
One day I asked myself about who I am. Who I really am. And my mental voice explained to me who I am, based on everything that has happened and what my values and judgements are. For each situation that ever happens there is a specific point of view where you take everything from. It is governed by that point. Everyday I see people who are governed by their values, their morals and judgements. It is human to have each one, we wouldn't be here otherwise. However, I believe if we really believe that our governing voice is who we are, then it is then we are lost. We are much more powerful than just mind. Somewhere along the line we forgot who we really are, and it is up to each person to go out there and really ask themselves for who they really are. I decided that I was not going to be the person I was, It's painful at times, and it is far greater than it should be. And I know for a fact it is not me, just something I decided so long ago. And therefore it is my responsibility to go about finding out something new. And to me, life is not worth living if I am not out there on that path to discovery.
Don Juan once said
"Before you embark on any path ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path. The trouble is nobody asks the question; and when a man finally realizes that he has taken a path without a heart, the path is ready to kill him. At that point very few men can stop to deliberate, and leave the path. A path without a heart is never enjoyable. You have to work hard even to take it. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy; it does not make you work at liking it."
"For me there is only the traveling on the paths that have a heart, on any path that may have a heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge for me is to traverse its full length. And there I travel--looking, looking, breathlessly."
8 Aug 2010
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