From: Leland Jory (ljory@mts.net)
Date: Tue Apr 20 2004 - 22:46:45 BST
Platt Holden wrote:
>Your emphasis on 'you' being freed from static patterns is still feeding
>your ego, just as helping others makes 'you' feel good. Those who pursue
>enlightenment are also padding their egos. To forward evolution, one must
>free a universal static pattern by creating a new and better pattern to
>take its place. Often it takes a monumental ego to accomplish that, such
>as the brujo had in the Zuni story.
>
The problem with ego-driven activity is that it doesn't always know when
to quit. That's why the ego-climber will be more likely to go on when
exhausted, miss the best path, place his/her feet in the wrong place
risking injury. It is *always* vital to remain in the 'here and now'. By
the same token, the creation of new static patterns by an ego-thinker
may lead to a worse situation than the current one. There are few things
as nervous-making to me as self-proclaimed 'philosophical leaders' who
try to convince you that their self-gratifying ideas are good for anyone
but themselves.
Sometimes, it is better to be a Very Small Animal.
>At our present stage of evolution, it is individual egos who break old
>patterns in significant ways to further the march of freedom towards
>betterness -- another reason to consider changing the name of the
>Intellectual Level to the Individual Level.
>
>
Ironically, the new patterns often self-destruct and leave a vacuum
which less ego-driven thinkers can fill with other patterns. Evolution
being what it is, there is always a competing way of doing things,
should the currently dominant way fail.
--
Leland Jory :^{)>
Cafeteria Spiritualist and Philosopher
"It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go
away, I'm looking for the truth.' and so it goes away. Puzzling." -
Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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