Hi Bobby! :)13masqueradeSeptember 18 2013, 17:58:30 UTC
~Most times I become the slave of the inner me..For I allow it to dictate some of my actions..Deeper than it should be..But no one can alter the dictatorship of the single mind and body! ~
Whether this is good or bad, only the you&i can know..:)
Re: Hi Bobby! :)bobby1933September 18 2013, 18:27:00 UTC
My ego sometimes mistakes itself for my self, and thus takes its desires to be my spiritual sense. The goal of all spiritual paths, i think, is to know the divine spark which is the real human being.
13masquerade reminds me of a friend of mine who thought, at least for some period of time, that having stable preferences was a sort of enslavement for humans....
My preferences are by definition, preferred. In that narrow sense, i have to own them. I may think they are mine, but perhaps i'm their's. The slave owner depends more on the slave than the slave on the owner. Except for superficial differences like who gets punished more, and who dresses better, and who works harder, you could not tell who is the slave and who the owner. One might argue that the slave is more real as a human being, because it is in our nature, from time to time, to submit, while domination is a perversion we acquire.
I took significant license with the significance of the term "superficial" which i saw in terms of the Sermon on the Mount. Blessed are the poor, the mourners, the hungry-- and the parable of the grain owner and his soul. But of course you are right,certainly voluntary fasting, poverty, and submission is one thing; involuntary is quite another.
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Whether this is good or bad, only the you&i can know..:)
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and thus takes its desires to be my spiritual sense.
The goal of all spiritual paths, i think,
is to know the divine spark which is the real human being.
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I may be a slave to my inner bacteria anyway.
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and they must wrestle w/ their own demons, poor dears.
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But then, I suppose, you'd have to swallow the audience....
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In that narrow sense, i have to own them.
I may think they are mine, but perhaps i'm their's.
The slave owner depends more on the slave than the slave on the owner.
Except for superficial differences like who gets punished more, and who dresses better, and who works harder, you could not tell who is the slave and who the owner. One might argue that the slave is more real as a human being, because it is in our nature, from time to time, to submit, while domination is a perversion we acquire.
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