Posted by Rahkyt
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Excuse me, Anchor, for not addressing your questions in my first response. As a prequel, these statements are made in the context of someone along the path and as an operational discussion, taking into account the process-oriented nature of time-dependent experiential living. In other words, I'm speaking from the lower, material perspective, not the higher, eternal perspective where everything is already known and nothing need be learned.
1) Faith is nurtured by learning to rest in the Absolute. Stilling the mind.
Doing so causes the questioning to cease. Gets rid of history and the future, cultivates Presence. Presence is active, living consciousness totally immersed within the Now moment. Presence, being in the Now, reveals the illusion of Past and Future, making all questions meaningless when it comes to the immediate concerns of the moment. Faith arises when one is totally Present. Am I fine now? Is the world still here? Is there air for me to breath? A ground for me to sit on?
These questions are meaningless when they are happening. As all questions and their answers are meaningless in the context of immersing one's self within the experiential cornucopia of living viscerally.
Faith is not a question for a mustard seed. For a bird. For a spider. These souls do amazing things with no question as to how or why. They just do.
The evidence of things unseen is certain knowledge of the Absolute. Certain knowledge of the Absolute only occurs when questioning ceases. in the Now. No cognition, no need to do anything. No need to become, just to be.
In this way, Faith is implicit in Life itself. In existence itself. As so much depends upon this evidence (bodily processes, astronomical processes, etc.), it is actually moot to even question it or attempt to define it beyond the broadest scope of understanding. There were questions even the Buddha would not answer.
2. The capacity to nurture strength of will is dependent upon the connection of intent to the flow of the Absolute.
Emotion and desire give rise to intent expressed by the application of will towards manifestation upon the material plane. This interplay is the pendulum swing between light and dark, between oppositions, yin and yang, extremes of karmic involvement that result in cause and effect repercussions and continuous incarnation within the structure of the Dharmic wheel.
The closer one's intent is to expressing the will of the Absolute the stronger that expression of will will be.
Strength of will is also cultivated by stillness. Connecting with the eternal. Ending the conflict of the bicameral mind. Becoming singular of purpose not in the human sense of becoming obsessed with a particular goal or outcome that serves the ego-state but by becoming the conduit of a higher energetic source. The ego-state then becomes in microcosm, a perfect reflection of the super-ego (higher self, avataric being, etc.) state in macrocosm.
A potentiality that can only find expression if the tendencies of the mind to wander are conquered, presence in the Now is fostered and the higher connection to the Divine is cultivated.
3. It is a feedback loop. It can be said that they occur simultaneously. But, within time and through space, it is a process of letting go, as Jenci said. Of allowing the clarity that exists beneath to rise through the confusion of a lifetime of learning to become the primary expression of a personality. As the connection between the person and the Absolute becomes clearer, strength of will becomes stronger, more focused.
4. Alll polarities are expressions of the dichotomous nature of physical reality. The individual that cultivates the Absolute goes beyond those limitations and thusly is no longer limited by them.
It is often said that God is Love. Which gives rise to the retort, then what of hate? What of fear? How can such exist within an all-pervasive continuum of endless and eternal Love? Love is the ocean, which is acceptance. Like the World Ocean, which accepts all of humanity's refuse while being the bounty that continues to give, to support our very essence and being and from whence we once emerged in some form or another. All of our pain, our agony, our separation anxiety expressed physical as plastics, as human waste, nuclear waste. Our separation from each other, the world, the cosmos, expressed as tons of trash dumped into an oceanic abyss, out of sight, out of mind.
An illusion. A dangerous one.
There is no separation. Thus, there is no fear. There is no hate. There is no refuse. There is no trash. There is always and only Love. There is always and only the World Ocean. Even those expressing the extremes of disfunction and maladjustment, the angry, the murderous, the envious, the hateful, are reacting to that all-encompassing field of love within which we all exist. Rejection and densification, self-imposed separation and further devolution, returning to Source/the Absolute by way of a different route, yet a valid choice and path all the same.
Faith and Will
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