Rose Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 (edited) One thing I realized, to properly awaken you need to have balance in all your aspects: - Family and close relationships - Career and finance - Health and fitness - Involvement in society and current events - Spiritual work and practices If you don’t achieve this balance, let’s say if you do psychedelics alone all day, you will eventually fly away to a woo-woo land and become detached. I wanted to ask how balanced do you think you are in your life? Also, are there any categories I missed? Edited March 9, 2023 by Rose Quote Mention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LovingPresence Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 I wouldn’t say it’s necessary to be balanced in all this aspects of reality. You can awaken without giving these areas much importance. But imo, ,,enlightened living” is far more than sitting on your cushion or taking psychedelics. And these aspects of living, at least in my experience, become a means or a way of sharing your light and co creating in this world. So the more I became conscious about myself and reality the more I had the natural urge to express myself in these different aspects of life. They go hand in hand. For some other folks it may be different. .That’s the beauty of being. Quote Mention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteOwl Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 How did you realize that? And what does properly awaken mean? Just just be sure. My idea of awakening would not need balance in all those aspects, but balance will most likely occur afterwards. I agree with @LovingPresenceThe more i become conscious about myself and are able to let go of ideas and beliefs, the easier and more naturally your mentioned aspects starts to flow. Quote Mention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robed Mystic Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, Rose said: One thing I realized, to properly awaken you need to have balance in all your aspects: - Family and close relationships - Career and finance - Health and fitness - Involvement in society and current events - Spiritual work and practices If you don’t achieve this balance, let’s say if you do psychedelics alone all day, you will eventually fly away to a woo-woo land and become detached. I wanted to ask how balanced do you think you are in your life? Also, are there any categories I missed? It's more about selflessness, deep love for another, so love, and suffering, deep suffering - possibly from the love of another you lost. Edited March 9, 2023 by Robed Mystic Quote Mention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LovingPresence Posted March 10, 2023 Share Posted March 10, 2023 I would add Self Love. The spontaneous expression of life energy as a celebration of love for life and (relationship-wise) for human beings. Selflessness, as @Robed Mysticpoints out can be the fuel for many activities and areas you engage with. A way of being in a sense. But there is nothing wrong with enjoying yourself for its own sake🌝 Be a little ,,selfish” and dance in this life for no reason and no one🫶🏻 Quote Mention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rose Posted March 11, 2023 Author Share Posted March 11, 2023 On 3/9/2023 at 6:30 PM, Robed Mystic said: It's more about selflessness, deep love for another, so love, and suffering, deep suffering - possibly from the love of another you lost. I am not even reading your comments 🥴 Quote Mention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rose Posted March 11, 2023 Author Share Posted March 11, 2023 On 3/9/2023 at 5:31 PM, WhiteOwl said: but balance will most likely occur afterwards. Yea, perhaps the sequence of events is not so clear cut. Quote Mention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Maynor Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 (edited) "To awaken you need to be balanced." 100% correct. I call this the Integral. And sometimes balance looks more like a working with or interplay. Balance implies a kind of harmony, but chaos is here just as much as order. One must also accept the chaos or disharmony on some level which the term balance can gloss. This is why I would reframe what you wrote as: To awaken you need to have a working with or interplay between certain nodes in a network of relations. This allows strife, insanity, discord, chaos, etc., to be here too -- as well as order, harmony, getting along, and the group hug or even the self hug. Edited March 11, 2023 by Joseph Maynor Quote Mention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 How does one know what balance is? Quote Mention Youtube Channel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blessed2 Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 How can everything already and always not be balanced? If there is any thing, there is always the counter-thing. That's what a thing is. Quote Mention There must be an effortless way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rose Posted March 11, 2023 Author Share Posted March 11, 2023 23 minutes ago, Mandy said: How does one know what balance is? One feels peaceful and not in conflict with oneself. Every part of them is satisfied. Quote Mention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas Long Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 balance doesn't really exist, if existence became balanced, it would cease to be. it's a constant oscillation between light and dark. if a heart monitor becomes "balanced" it would be a straight line, meaning, you're dead. if a sound wave is balanced it's not audible. Quote Mention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas Long Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 2 minutes ago, Rose said: One feels peaceful and not in conflict with oneself. Every part of them is satisfied. is that how you feel? Quote Mention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rose Posted March 12, 2023 Author Share Posted March 12, 2023 9 minutes ago, Lester Retsel said: if existence became balanced, it would cease to be. I am not talking about general existence Quote Mention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rose Posted March 12, 2023 Author Share Posted March 12, 2023 (edited) 10 minutes ago, Lester Retsel said: is that how you feel? Most of the time no. But when I do feel like it, it feels amazing, the tiny glimpses. Edited March 12, 2023 by Rose Quote Mention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas Long Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 Just now, Rose said: I am not talking about general existence but we are general existence Quote Mention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rose Posted March 12, 2023 Author Share Posted March 12, 2023 Just now, Lester Retsel said: but we are general existence One can be an unconscious existence though, then you’re just going with the flow. Quote Mention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas Long Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 1 minute ago, Rose said: Most of the time no. But when I do feel like it, it feels amazing, the tiny glimpses. hmmm, but it doesn't last... so, can you really call it "balanced"? Quote Mention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rose Posted March 12, 2023 Author Share Posted March 12, 2023 (edited) 1 minute ago, Lester Retsel said: hmmm, but it doesn't last... so, can you really call it "balanced"? I think it can be made so it lasts, or at least becomes more dominating Edited March 12, 2023 by Rose Quote Mention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas Long Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 Just now, Rose said: One can be an unconscious existence though, then you’re just going with the flow. we are the flow. the flow never reaches balance or stasis. it always flows. Quote Mention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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