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Our existence as individuals is defined by the following:
actions / reactions / results - perception -> communication -> conception -> mind -> (spirit) - mind -> re-conception -> communication -> actions ->
This forms a spiral. Everything spirals.
Some of us shows an awareness of this spiral from one orientation:
action / reactions / results - perception _> communication -> mind/spirit/mind ->re- conception - communication -> action
While others identify the same spiral from a different orientation:
spirit/mind - (re-)conception -> communication -> actions / reactions / results -> perception -communication -> mind/spirit
BUT, all of these are dynamic and can be changed on their own frequency. Some can only be changed for one single individual at a time, while others can cause change for vast numbers,the frequencies are built in, not optional. Even Spirit changes, but not in a systemic way like an individual does. That is why it is combined with and bracketed by mind in the equation.
Mind can ignore Spirit to some degree, having only compassion, conscience, and other vague feelings as mind's connection.
To the extent mind knows of it's relationship with Spirit, to that extent that individual is considered 'spiritual' and their actions, reactions, and results show that connection. It has almost nothing to do with the individual's concepts, their 'spiritual' jargon, their religion, or anything conceptual, social or individual.
Each of the general components above can be further defined, but lets look at these generally first.
Action is what we are doing right now, what we do everyday,we act, living our non- conceptual lives, eating, sleeping, making love, driving our cars, walking, etc. Action is determined by our minds, under the guidance of Spirit, and we seek clean direct action which have results which we can be sure of. We put a nail point against the wood in order to drive it in. This is the Action.
Reactions are the forces we set in motion by our actions, either together or separately. Reactions can be very simple and predictable, like hitting a nail with a hammer will likely drive it into the wood, but not always,the result has to be taken into account in order to know if the reaction is good or bad. How we hit it, accurately or not, is the Reaction.
Results are the end product, you might say, and the results may likely show that the reactions were not what we supposed or right on target. Results of hammering a nail into a piece of wood might well be a bent nail, or splintered wood, or broken hammer, or gashed thumb, or any number of other possibilities, many of them not necessarily immediately understandable in more complex actions.
Conceptually, we tend to ignore the Reaction and only pay attention to our conceptual analysis of the Result, and in this, we limit our learning to the Action and Result,even to calling the Result a 'Reaction'. Reactions are usually fairly immediate,Results can echo down through history,Results are predictable only when you know the Whole. (The characteristics of a given action is predictable only when the desired result is known and all other necessary actions and reactions are accounted for.)
Perception is what we are doing 'in the Real' when we walk, in order not to fall down, or drive a car, or hammer a nail, or feel the mattress under our bodies, or become aware of the air passing through our noses,Perceptions are part of temporary existence as individual bodies, individual systems, and they are limited to that existence.
Communication is what we are doing when we read this page. We are gathering other people's perceptions and concepts or telling them ours. We are not always conceptual in our perceptions, but we have to be conceptual in our communications, to 'encode' our perceptions into words in order to communicate them. It connects us conceptually but is not very efficient. Communication relies upon personal experience and imagination to work, and people can have very different superficial experiences and various degrees of the ability to imagine.
Mind is the workings of our ego, with it's model of Universe, it's flow of almost random thoughts, it's non- or barely-perceived flow of knowledge and direction from Spirit, it's filtering of data to protect itself, it's self-image, memory, imagination, etc. It's most important attribute is the illusion of being separate from everything else.
Spirit is what we are. We are not just our egos, we are not just our thoughts/concepts, we are not just our bodies, we are not just the exterior Universe, we are more than the sum of all these, and include them as part of ourselves. All One = One Spirit! We are not 5 billion spirits, all individual, but One Spirit in 5 billion (at least) individual points of view walking around in the same common Spiritual Real. Spirit is everything and everybody, Spirit is intelligent, Spirit communicates, usually non-conceptually.
Re-conception is the process of the change of our concepts under the effects of either directly perceiving exterior Universe or through un-encoding the communications coming in from others,and if we are 'tuned in', even directly, to Spirit.
Change occurs from ALL of these. You can change any one of them and the rest change also.
Education comes from communication which changes conceptualization which changes mind, which changes...
Spiritual changes cannot be taught through communication, but it can be pointed to through communication, and when the mind realizes Spirit exists, it tries to access it or it cowers in fear from it, deciding to follow a 'spiritual path' so beloved habits of mind can continue, rather than accepting the Truth directly, and this decision to reject or accept the existence of Spirit changes the rest of the spiral for that person and all they interact with. Spirit, because it is non-conceptual and unified, can become obvious, perceived directly by an individual, and then it is never a question of rejection or acceptance, the spiral is forever changed by knowing the relationship of Truth (Spirit) to all the steps of that spiral. Truth is experiential, not conceptual. Concepts of Truth appear only when we try to communicate it.
actions / reactions / results - perception -> communication -> conception -> mind -> (spirit) - mind -> re-conception -> communication -> actions ->...
Bodhisatvas have to approach the problems of the world from ALL these various steps:
The world needs us to redesign the basic systems so they work for everyone. We need to educate humanity, help them orient their lives around what Spirit guides them to do, re- examine all the world's basic data and, not going by belief, but by perception, clean out the gigo embedded in a million years of gathered data. We need to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, find purpose for the burned out, insert better, more efficient technology where inefficient technology based upon purely financial and gigo data is ruining our planet�
I have spent 30 years studying this problem, trying my best to see it with the perspective of an alien from another planet with total amnesia, so my vision would not be filtered by the stuff I was taught as a child. I tried to be 'in the world but not of the world', either in the world as society or in the world as ecosystem, I did outrageous experiments, like living naked in a cave without technology, without even fire, to see how pre-technological humanity viewed the world, and thereby see the effects of technology on humanity. Another time I 'went to the mountain', to try to understand what it was that directed humanity beyond our mistakes and successes, why we are here,and I got answers,non- conceptual answers which made it all fall in place.
We are All One, All One with Universe, with Spirit, with each other. We are This being aware of itself...
One of the biggest lessons I learned is that we cannot conceptually understand it all. We conceptually come to conclusions based upon the data we have, gigo or Truth, integrated and generated in imagination, the designer board of our minds, and we can come to conclusions which are always based upon partial Truth,if we are fixed on our conclusions, we hold back our ability to be part of the solution, and if we are like surfers, riding the waves of our ability to understand and absorb new data, we can become major players in the changes to come.
Spirit communicates. We all know more than Buddha, Christ, Mohammed, or any of the great teachers of the past. We know of their experiences and their teachings, and since then, the great knowledge and experience of humanity has grown. We know more than anyone in the past, and this is why we can do more than anyone in the past to fix the world so it works rather than slides into still birth,This is what we are about. This is what we were born for. This is our destiny.
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