The "A-ha" Conversation Circle
I like asking questions....it's how I learn and process.
Recently, I was reading Eyes of the Heart, and I had an "a-ha!" go off in my head. Something I just read made sense not just on a cognitive level, but also (or more so) in my moving center and emotional center. And I heard a question within*, and that led to what I believe is a example of Third Force. So this is the sequence: first an answer in the form of something I read/heard from Cynthia's teachings, and then how that answers a particular question.
The "Answer" was something I just read/heard Cynthia say. Which is then speaks to the "question", which is often something I'm stuck on. In connecting Answer and Question, there is a new arising - integration this wisdom teaching into my lived experiences.
So this offering is a group I want to call the "A-ha" Conversation Circle
Interested? Intrigued?
Want to connect up and
see if this becomes
a possible offering?
*Here is the example:
The Answer
(Eyes of the Heart, page 54): "Conscious labor is basically any intentional effort that move against the grain of entropy......Whether the effort is as modest as simply noticing a negative emotion rather than blindly reacting or as heroic as struggling with an addition, it is not the scale of the undertaking but the honesty of the struggle that reverse the direction of flow......Intentional sufering goes head to head with that well-habituated pattern...to move towards pleasure and away from pain. It invites us to step up to the plate and willingly carry a piece of that univesrsal suffering...The size of the piece does not matter. It can be as small as "bearing another human being's unpleasant manifestations....(or) as vast as 'greater love has no man than to lay down his life for his neighbor." ......To qualify as upwardly transformative work, the (conscious suffering) must be pure (free from personal gain or self-interest); it must be spacious (nonurgent and unattached to outcom); and it must be generous (offered on behalf of the larger whole). Then it does its work well.
My question/stuck point
I want to devote more time to spiritual practices including conscious labor and intentional suffering, but life gets in the way. I work hard in so many ways meeting everyday demand and "keeping it together" already, and when I practice intentional suffering, it's often ends up taking me to a sad and unhappy place that can't possibly be a good thing.