dugdeep said:
Galahad said:
Yes, it is easier said than done. The clearer you are internally about your Aim, the more you can keep it in focus, the easier it will be. It can also help to think back to past relationships that took you away from that Aim, if you have any. If not, think about the concrete details of entering into a relationship with someone who isn’t involved in the work. Think about the long-term implications.Are you being fair to her if you are acting on your chemicals?
So just to clarify, is it the position of the network that entering into
any relationship is negative? Is the idea that until one has expanded their being they are unable to determine whether a potential relationship can be colinear or harmful? If so, does one ever get to the point where they can see beyond their chemical reactions and can determine whether a potential relationship could be mutually beneficial? Or does a relationship need to begin out of the Work in order to have the hope of being colinear?
I'm just wondering if I'm moving down the path of a monk here. Maybe these questions would be better addressed in a separate thread.
Hi Dugdeep, I can relate to your post here. This goes for Infiniteness, NDS and others struggling with physical/emotional entanglements, lust, urges, attraction to those we are sexually oriented towards and so fourth.
FWIW.... here's my Loonies(that's what we call a dollar here in the great white north) worth. So its only really worth 2 cents anyways.
Watch the Matrix movie. There is a scene where they are in a training program, in public, loads of people, a beautiful, buxom, blond woman in a red dress walks by, Neo is mesmerized by her and follows her with a glazed over gaze. Cant blame him, after all.....
Morpheus said:
The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so injured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.
[Neo's eyes suddenly wander towards a woman in a red dress]
Morpheus said:
Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?
Harold said:
Ya Neo, whad are ya! New or somthin!
Neo said:
Morpheus said:
[gestures with one hand] Look again.
[the woman in the red dress is now Agent Smith, pointing a gun at Neo's head; Neo ducks]
Morphues said:
[Everybody and everything besides Neo,Harold and Morpheus freezes in time]
Harold said:
Ya Neo! Ya numbnuts! Ya almost got yer head blown off!
Neo said:
This... this isn't the Matrix?
Harold said:
No Neo.... its the Playboy Channel!
Morpheus said:
No. It is another training program designed to teach you one thing: which is what Harold actually means to say Neo, is, if your not one of us, your one of them.
Harold said:
Yea Neo! So pay attention!!!!
Morpheus said:
Thank-you for your input Harold, you can leave the movie now.
Harold said:
But! Morpheus! I was just gonna....
Morpheus said:
Harold said:
ok..... alright..... by Neo!
Neo said:
Later Harold...much later
Harold said:
Morpheus said:
Cool! I always wanted to be in that movie....
Another scene from the movie:
Cypher said:
When you see an Agent Neo, you do what we do, when we see an Agent .....Run..... don't stop.....don't look back....run for your life!
IMO, relationships can be the biggest distraction to the 'reality' of what is going on around us.
Other things I ponder regarding relationships is;
Look at all the disharmony, divorce etc. Spousal abuse. I believe in the institution of marriage, I believe in 2 persons coming together and sharing their lives.
Not to mention, relationships eventually lead to.... babies, and does this world really need another mouth to feed?
But too, consider how the PTB's have twisted and manipulated these wonderful unions.
No offence to the ladies out there, but lets take feminism for example... Don't get me wrong here, I am all for equality amongst humans, animals etc. But feminism has created a separation between the sexes.
Feminism is just a means to an end. What is the end? 3 major initiatives.
1) get more people in the work force.
2) put money in the hands of women to spend and consume more.
3) get women to smoke cigarettes.
We have Edward Bernays to thank for this.... the grand'daddy'(a male) of feminism.
http://www.socialbranding.org/sb/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=118&Itemid=50
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2008/10/14/the-smoking-feminist/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/44.html .....this is a good video
and here is the Holy Grail(Holograph? Holy Grail? DNA! The serpent wound around the tree with.... EVE! The Egyptian icon that later became the symbol(cymbal! loud sound... wake up!) for the medical industry, look carefully for the double helix...hmmmm), right from Bernays himself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-TYCXnAaZU
So whats my point? Well back to the Matrix....
Morpheus said:
The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
Neo said:
Morpheus said:
That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind.
I'll just leave it here for now as I am having to much anxiety.
cheers
Harold