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From: ctong@leonardo.rutgers.edu (Chris Tong)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.eastern
Subject: re: proselytizing
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Date: 29 Jun 91 01:38:28 GMT
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>>
>>Wouldn't it be delightful, and freeing, and just like the Self Itself
>>if our messages to each other could be full of Love and Light and
>>Inspiration and Revelation (to the extent that words are capable of
>>transmitting that silently), rather than constituting egoic battering
>>rams?
>>
>>Chris    
>
>
>Welcome to the group.  You make an excellent point here and I'm glad
>to hear it.  There is however a place for critical thinking and writing
>to exchange ideas.
>
>Roger...
>

Thanks! I agree. My intention was to suggest that head and heart
should be used together and in an appropriate, synergistic manner. We
should not merely TALK ABOUT spiritual practice in our message, while
at the same BEING egos, but we should BE spiritual practitioners as
well, writing to serve, and transcend ego:

1. As devotees of Consciousness, we should always be aware of (or at
least be willing to have reflected to us) the real motivations behind
why we post our messages and do our discriminative thinking (since
those motivations often appear to be egoic and self-serving in
nature); and

2. When we are truly practicing a spiritual life, we should be
delighted to observe much of the time that the real motivation behind
our critical thinking and communication of information is love and
service, not ego. 

There is a reason for having a head AND a heart! But each should play
its appropriate role. The open, feeling (but not emotionally reactive)
heart is the instrument through which we (subjectively and ultimately
Subjectively) feel the body, the world, and ultimately Consciousness
Itself; when functioning appropriately, the head is responsible for
(objectively) planning, analyzing, and problem-solving in a way that
serves the purpose of the heart (and shutting up the rest of the
time!:-).  And that purpose is to feel so profoundly (to be so
feelingly-aware) that finally one feels without limit, and (thus) one
discovers one is the Self, completely non-separate. The head should
never try to substitute for the heart!

Chris