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DESIRE - ACTION
Enacting the desire to emerge out of unconsciousness we first become aware of ourselves as separate from Source. We see that it is this separation that creates duality, which is the essence of diversity, a requirement for dynamism; we become enthusiastic to express our individuality as a vision, the vision of our desire to be who we are. This is the universal story of how any aware being develops in consciousness - babe or deity alike. |
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DESIRE - CULTURAL IMPLICATIONS
Feeling the need for stability, we invest ourselves in a specific goal and, in pursuing it, we come to learn of two polarised aspects of our nature. Society provides a code of conduct to moderate how we respond to our inner sensitivities and urges and this cultural code underpins our ability to understand the wider reality. Our creative interpretation of how to understand it is what defines who we are, and this has both aspects, which are the push of the past - cultural explanations - and the pull of the future - personal vision. |
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DESIRE - INDIVIDUAL IMPLICATIONS
Perhaps at first we try to grasp what form reality takes through our feelings but soon enough we are moved to conceptualize and explain, for which mental discipline is required. Yet we also feel a higher order reality that speaks the language of freedom. An immature rebelliousness against imposed discipline fails and teaches us that we have to find the inner balance that reconciles both parts of our nature, only then will we radiate the light that expresses fulfilled desire. Our desire to differentiate seemed to be a very basic, simple urge, and yet now we find how very challenging it is to remember our original state of grace as we grapple with duality. Perhaps we can hold it for a few moments, but then duality's dynamism pulls us in again. |
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POTENCY - ACTION
Desire is impotent unless it marries with the potency inherent within life's natural forces. These are accessed only when find our own dynamic rhythm of doing and being - as portrayed by the yin yang symbol. Only when we take action to detach from the stresses and strains of worldly engagement can we gain the magical perspective of imagination to see what is real, and how to handle life's issues compassionately. |
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POTENCY - CULTURAL IMPLICATIONS
Within the culture of group interaction, we can see the yang force encouraged by glorification of powerful, aggressive individuals, while the yin shows how the synergy of cooperation creates abundance. Anyone who masters both of these is inwardly fulfilled and becomes open to the revelation of higher spiritual energies and correspondingly a new dimension of potentials. |
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POTENCY - INDIVIDUAL IMPLICATIONS
We must anticipate the need for new skills and attitudes, bringing more care and attention to everything we do, to deepen our faith in order to overcome setbacks, also to remember to see things from the other's point of view as we act to assert our own. In this way we learn to hear more clearly, and respond to more consciously, the subtle, universal melody of life - and yet at the same time competently hold together our normal, challenging, life situations. |