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Re: Cosmic question METHOD vs. NON DOINGFrom: Michael Winn
Subject: General
Date/Time 2005-04-08 06:57:03
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MessageThanks for the thoughtful post and reminder of Blofeld, who I also read and respect.
This is raising the core question of method as doing, vs. surrendering to universal mind as non-doing. They are not in opposition.
My opinion is that spiritual method is useful, if not necessary, in almost every human case to achieve wu wei.Wu wei does not mean no effort. It means no coercive effort.
The main reason we need spiritual science is the cycle of material science we are in, where the global religion is worship of Technology. So the only bridge between scientific technology and religion that will succed during this cycle is spiritual science.
Otherwise, the gap between irrational religious belief vs. rational scientific method will not be bridged.
Of cousre the Chinese Taoist adept is right- there is only one mind, we are functional expressions of it.
But that one Mind is/has a "macrocosmic" will, and that will is also present in the microcosmic will of each human. So each human has the CHOICE of whether to align with the universal will - OR NOT.
Heaven and Earth remain always in alignment with Tao, but Humanity is not necessarily in alignment because of this free will. Or more accurately, humanity as a whole is in alignment, but individual humans are not always.
Using spiritual method accelerates the return to harmony and balance.
Without spiritual method, the long cycles of the life force will inevitably return things to balance and harmony. But meanwhile, humans are suffering, and heaven and earth also suffer because of it. So they gracefully give spiritual methods to humans to grow up more quickly.
Without spiritual method, we are in a cycle where there is a serious danger of negative spiral due to false reliance on external technology - which can be easiliy manipulated by dark forces. Atomic weapons are main case in point - the abuse of external alchemy and the metal/gold element (uranium and plutonium variants, in this case).
michael
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