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Thinking about this tweet. There’s do many ways to relate to karma from past lives, or what we are given: 1. with a sort of self-identification, and rightfulness, “I worked for this, I deserved this” 😤 2. with a sort of guilt and discomfort (e.g. white guilt) 😥 https://t.co/vaUCSY4lcD
it’s a very strange kind of concern, this concern with deservingness it maintains itself, desperately, sustaining whatever set of moral norms and psychological beliefs we need to continue what we were doing there is the fear of emptiness what when there is no deserving
it’s that participation, in the mutual handing over of things, bits of justification, that sustains and props up the shared belief-reality and moral economies we are living in we have to keep proving to each other it exists in little ways. giving it legitimacy & acquired reality
it’s only when there is such a perceived legitimacy to them, that we’re afraid to retreat back into emptiness, to find more or different answers, to relax or grip on the truth while we allow a more accurate and for-this-moment useful truth to spontaneously arise—
of course, it makes sense life by its nature resists disruption. it maintains self-evidencing pathways in attractor states, so no matter how the environment changes, it will continue to exist unenlightenment is the mind doing the same thing, maintaining its matrix of form
unenlightenment is the mind’s sparkling attempt to maintain a massive living matrix of form & dualistic perception, letting it self-evidence & evolve itself without getting disrupted in the face of environmental changes it’s job is to stay itself, even if it means staying wrong