Then I would say to you tentative, your inclination towards reproaching my method of social avoidance is incorrect, logically.
If expectation is harnessing desire to acquired social need, and community is a tool for hinderance and corruption, feeding off the perfidy of social expectation; we are left with naught else but solitude.
And humanity slips even further, and the slope has no end.
Entailing opposites. Always. Avoid one or the other? No. See them as the one. Always.
[i]Sages are like a mirror -
They neither see things off nor go out to meet them,
They respond to everything without storing anything up.
They are thus never injured through the myriad transformations they
undergo.
Huainanzi 6[/i]
Balance and equilibrium. The agitation of heart and mind cannot be present without an internal struggle between reason and passion. Self divided against self. Is it not the mirroring of things as they are that gives us a disposition of peace and self-consumation?
Yes, and I would spend my time there. But as long as the body exists, so will ego, and so we must find way-making in duality as well. No small task.
Spirit and body. One may not separate one from the other without agitation. Embracing all that is, including ego, is the heart of way-making. The is the Te of heaven and the Te of humanity. Holding both together in deference is acuity, and acuity is integrity. That is our natural community.
But one who exercises âknow thyselfâ may choose to balance by spending more time in the clarity of the one who sees without knowing, and is therefore, not unbalanced, and whose deference is toward unity, and prevailing over the individuality of ego.
On the other side of the coin, it may not remain a matter of choice. The lady of the house may opt for my hermetic existence, long before I seek it out myself ⌠LMAO.
I understand the longing for the hermetic existenceâŚI could quiet easily do it. But I have responsibilities to my spiritual journey and that according to my method is best accomplished in community. I put out the original post as a sort of encouragement, not really trying to convince anyone of anything. Itâs just what resonates with me.
Itâs just a matter of a public forum, where otherâs may necessarily feel inclined to word a different ideology, from the authorâs original intent.
No misstep intended, my apologies if your thread drifted in an unacceptable manner.
There is no need for you to apologise Mas. Simply expressing that I understand and also that I have no desire to change your mind. Please, continue with your conversation.
Allow me to âcorrectâ my blissfully tentative friend: With the lady of my house ⌠choices are not viable or plausible, without her express consent. Anything but complete obedience and devotion is met with gradient degrees of displeasure.
LOL.
âCommunityâ is grand, especially when that is your family.
LOL, apparently the wife has learned how to train children quite well. I suffer the same zero tolerance issues. I canât figure out why, 'cause Iâm such a sweetie. Oh well, just one of the perils of living in a âcommunityâ.