Kub933's Journal

Hi Vineeto,

I have had this as a running thread each moment again for the past couple of days. There has been daring and there has been habituation. To use the metaphor of the cave again, it’s peeking out the cave where there is sun shining and the birds are singing, initially there is the daring needed - “can I step out?, is it safe?” etc, and then I step out anyways and there is that “fresh summer breeze” and all is well. And then some time down the line it is as if I have been teleported back to the cave, I notice something missing, but then I remember that the exit is right in front of me and that I can once more step out - that’s the habituation.

It’s been quite amusing how this has been playing out in practice too. For example the other day I noticed the kitchen and living room were a bit of a mess, and I tend to like to keep the house tidy. At that time I could not distinguish if this was a preference or a passionate drive. But I could tell that I felt it as a responsibility and something that ‘I’ had to ‘do’ in that “carrying the burden” way. The initial response when considering a different course of action was of course jumping to it’s opposite, that if ‘I’ don’t ‘do’ it then ‘I’ will end up living in squalor etc But then I thought well that is a risk I am willing to take! :laughing: And sure enough about 30minutes later after I was done cooking for me and Sonya I noticed that the kitchen was clean, of course I was the one that did the cleaning but the ‘doer’ had no part, it took no effort.

Also something changed recently and I can only pin point it to having now left behind whatever remnants of the spiritual viewpoint. Even the words that you write to me, they make sense like never before, in a matter of fact, down to earth way. And indeed I was up until recently viewing actualism and actual freedom through a spiritual lens. I am pretty surprised to write this, because for years I thought that was all done and dusted! And yet I still saw actual freedom as another state of ‘being’, I no longer do and I think this is the core reason for the change. Which also means that my compass is now oriented towards the correct direction, which is here on earth.

And all this is kind of weird, in a mind-boggling way. It reminds me of what Richard wrote that once actually free he saw that he had been here all this time simply having a ball. I can kind of see this, that on one hand ‘I’ am carrying ‘my’ burden and yet there is everything already happening of it’s own accord in actuality… Also those words “cause and effect was left behind in the land of lament”, that keeps coming up too when I am having these experiences.

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