the future and the void
Re: Is there a future? -- jonx Top of thread Forum
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billy ®

01/25/2005, 08:38:00
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Jonx

You are quite right to highlight the fact that leaving Knowledge could create a void in ones life. This is a potential risk for all those who give their all to an ideology / experience / belief. It just goes with the territory. However imperceptible, 'change' is built in to the very fabric of life and consequently 'any' attachment of any kind is likely to create suffering. Most if not all premies recognise deep down that the flip side of their attachment to M and K represents a fearful void: all alone in an ocean full of sharks. A premie apparently asked M in India recently to save him and M's response was to tell him to not jump ship because then he could not be saved. 

My guess is that this premie wanted to be saved from his doubts, from his weaknesses and the only way that can happen is if you become - as M put it not so long ago - 'overwhelmed by Knowledge' . You have to take on the 'properties' of K , you have to become ' it '.  As long as there is a 'duality', as long as there is a 'seperation' there is a risk of fire overcoming water (and you jumping ship).

If you embark on such a journey, and lets face it all who want to be saved or want to find God or experience the Truth or have true fulfilment or go to heaven are on a very similar journey, you run the risk of disillusinment. This cannot be avoided. There are no free lunches. There is a price to pay if you are on the boat and there is a price to pay if you are not.

If you do not see life in terms of black and white, if you recognise the majesty and the incomprehensibility of life, you must also recognise that Life is by definition greater than Knowledge. It is I am afraid the religious mind with all its built in concepts and fears that would like us to believe that if we step 'outside' of its truth and knowledge and understanding we will be lost in the 'void'. Implicit in you concern is the fact that somehow the process of knowing oneself is only possible through K. It always boils down to that, does it not? Outside of 'this' there is no hope (of knowing yourself, of being happy, of being clear....)

Why do you think that is?  In His perfection God apparently places Himself in the heart of every human being but then gives the Key to 'one' Master...Is this what they mean by 'intelligent design' ? Does God favour premies (like he favours the Jews, the Muslims, the ......) ? Do you really think K is the answer to greed and divisiveness? What is the evidence for that? The premie world  has always suffered from divisiveness and as for greed, well lets not go there.

What you should try and do is balance the rhetoric of K with the reality of K and see if you still think you ought to have genuine concern for those who are no longer plugged into it. 

   

 

 

  

 

 

 

  

 







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