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# RE: Re: Wanting

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- To: BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com
- Subject: RE: [BardonPraxis] Re: Wanting
- From: "lux xul" <luxxul@...>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:41:16 +0000
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    So well Said! Wisdom and insight. :T:

>     From: "David Yeh" <ldreamr@...>
>     Reply-To: BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com
>     To: BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com
>     Subject: [BardonPraxis] Re: Wanting
>     Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 02:21:23 -0000

>     Hi Regulus,

>     You bring up an interesting issue that I have been looking at lately,
>     and that is the quality of my "wanting." To a large extent, I've
>     been finding that a lot of my "wanting" has to do with ego-grasping,
>     and that's part of why I've found myself glossing over some
>     exercises. It's the part of me that wants to accumulate experiences,
>     in the belief that the more I have the better I am; rather than
>     experiencing each aspect of life for what it is, and thereby not only
>     enjoy life but be fully in the moment and learn the most.

>     The most deceptive thing is that I considered myself not very
>     materialistic, because I was "spiritual." But it was spiritual
>     materialism all the same.

>     So lately I have been thinking more in terms of enjoying myself and
>     being present. This is a major, major imbalance I see in my soul
>     mirror, and actually the root of or related to the majority of the
>     items on there. (Did I do that wrong, I wonder? To have one basic
>     root for the majority of the negative traits in my soul mirror?) I
>     have too much negative Earth and Fire, it sucks me down and burns me
>     out and I don't leave anything left for feeling and enjoying and
>     being light and humorous with myself.

>     On the whole, though, I think the main reason that I would stick with
>     this path is precisely because it makes me face my patterns and where
>     I am stuck. I don't imagine that the advanced magician is supposed
>     to be spiritually "mature" to the point where he can't enjoy life; I
>     would think that it would be quite the opposite. But I am realizing
>     that maybe the reason these spiritual paths feel so difficult is
>     because they require you to give up your attachments and enjoy life
>     as it is, even while working hard toward some goal you may never
>     attain. Controlled folly, don Juan called it.

>     David

>     --- In BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com, "Regulus Magus" > Dear David:
>     >
>     > I might add that the "wanting" is in the context of all the other
>     things you
>     > might want. I like to think of it in terms of "opportunity cost"
>     (in
>     > essence, every hour you invest doing one thing is an hour you are
>     not doing
>     > other things). You have to make a considered decision about what
>     you value
>     > more. Do you want to spend an hour doing the IIH exercises more
>     than an hour
>     > spent playing with your kids? Reading a good book? Walking in the
>     park? If
>     > so, why?
>     >
>     > I think answering these kinds of questions relates to your work on
>     soul
>     > mirrors. In my opinion, Bardon's work defines a kind of "fast
>     track" to
>     > spiritual maturity. In my own case, I left this path because deep
>     down, I am
>     > enjoying my spiritual youth and would rather be playing with the
>     kids,
>     > reading, walking and so on, than spending the time it would take to
>     master
>     > the 10 steps. It's a choice each of us has to make (and again, in
>     my
>     > opinion, step 2 seems to be the point where most people make this
>     decision).
>     >
>     > Respectfully, /RM/

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