Anything but Nothing

I think there's a phase we go through where it seems like ignorance would be blissful. It's an in-between phase, where we're no longer operating from the old paradigm, but haven't yet fully integrated into the new one. We begin to recognize something new, cultivating a new awareness, but the old still has a magnetic pull while the new feels a bit intimidating. So in a way we look to the old unconsciousness as comfortable... comfortable in not knowing (based on unconsciousness) and yet not entirely comfortable with the new (often because we think we know what this new thing is). At some point we again enter a state of not knowing AND become comfortable, but in a conscious way. So you could say that the statement "CONSCIOUS ignorance is bliss" is an accurate statement.

Yes, I did the same thing. My mother had a very strong need and desire for me to finish college, partly so she can look good being a mother of someone who finished college. lol! And I realized that the appearance didn't matter to me anymore, and that until I discovered my own reason for why I needed to go, I didn't want to continue. This was actually a very intelligent decision, but unfortunately she didn't recognize it as such. It's too bad many people pursue expensive educations for all the wrong reasons, and then have to pay off those horrendous student loans... for what? For appearances, or to please others.

This reminds me of something I once read about Gandhi, where in a 1914 tribute to him, written in the Hibbert Journal, Professor Gilbert Murray of Oxford wrote: "Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for sensual pleasures, nothing for comfort or praise or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous and uncomfortable enemy because his body which you can always conquer gives you so little purchase over his soul."

There is no should. We are compelled to respond. The question is, what compels us? Is it conditioning or awareness of truth? We will "surrender" to one or the other.

 

lol! Well it would be if there was some kind of identification there. But I was just playing. Maybe you knew that? It's hard to interpret meaning from the internet sometimes.

Thinking in itself isn't important and is often destructive when it doesn't arise out of Being. However Being and thinking aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. Being can sometimes become expressed through words, or it can remain silent. Beneath whatever outer form, Being Is. When disconnected from Being we can look at words, thoughts, and conversations, and assume emptiness there, and yet we can look deeper and sense where these words are coming from. We can feel the energy there. I would suggest you feel words, instead of just read them. But if you find you don't wish to engage in discussions then by all means don't. I think that for the most part discussions aren't that helpful.