Thanks for sharing this - I remember we posted this a while back. It's a fantastic way of communicating a much needed message about the way we live.

I see what you are saying above. I see that everything has a purpose within nature. The physciality is simply a vehicle of expression. Once the purpose has been served the physicality begins to fall away. Is the plant terminating itself? I guess that's one way of looking at it. I see it more as a liberation than a termination.

I believe that at a soul level we are all innately compassionate. At a soul level we realise that we are one at-one, therefore what we do to one thing, we do to the whole. In my experience, it is this that inspires true compassion.

To me this is slightly different to 'being programmed' - which connates being 'mind-led' rather than soul-led).

I do notice however that compassion tends to go slightly awry as it gets tangled in the web of the mind. A spontaeous compassionate arising of the soul becomes entwined in the processes of the mind. This is where the programmes are. For example... we might feel a natural arising of compassion for all fellow beings. Say a bird in nature - a fledging - has fallen from the nest. We make the judgement that it can't possibly fend for itself. We take it in and care for it. It becomes tame. Immediately upon release it is gobbled up by the nearest cat as we have denied it the chance to learn to survive.

That's quite a gentle example - I am sure there are infinitely more powerful ones. My point is that there is 'right action' in each moment. If we listen to the soul, then we know exactly what we are supposed to do. Perhaps we are meant to save that bird - perhaps it stands more of a chance of surviving if it fends for itself. Perhaps another animal is dependent on fallen fledglings for it's own survival.

We live in a world where man kind has defied the laws of nature. If we seek to rectify them by using the same thinking that caused the problems in the first place then we haven't really learnt a thing. We're invited to find something beyond it all.

With Love
Trinity

Thank you for your reply, Trinity,
I find this subject pretty confusing.

I agree that there's a difference if you let the intuition, deep hunch (or soul), emotions or the mind dominate the perception and decision making. Moreover never can I regret if the decision was made following the first one.

Now the mind, or emotions, are some kind of biochemical, electrical, very complicated web, dependent on many parameters.
If assuming that the world is deterministic from the Big Bang, and every tiny particle in the world is exactly is in it's right place, then the brain patterns and emotional responses are all programmed too.

I think that the world is dual, which means if one pole takes place, the opposite one has to balance it -> we do have a choice.

So while reading your post I've had this idea, that maybe our choice is what program to follow? - mind + emotions or the "hunch", more subtle one?

I mean, do we have a choice? and if we do, then exactly where does it lay?

I don't see, for example how people in certain places, and not having internet get more aware even know about such a way of living.

For example, religios jewish people (in Bney Brak for example) burn plastic, anything, they just burn it in piles, not even knowing how toxic it is. They are not allowed to have internet or to view TV programmes. And they beleive that this wolrd is permanent and not important, so they don't care about polluting it at all. I saw how they live in my own eyes. Do they have a choice?

That makes me think that it all is not that simple. But I just try to balance between mind, emotions and soul..and then to see what this combination gives me..in the meantime..

Thank you again,
Love,
Yulia

Yulia wrote: I mean, do we have a choice? and if we do, then exactly where does it lay?

I don't see, for example how people in certain places, and not having internet get more aware even know about such a way of living.

I realise that this is a difficult one to 'get the head around'.

I have experienced and believe in something far deeper that the superficial world we tend to see with our eyes. The choice the is available to everyone rests within the soul.

Awakening to the truth is not dependent on multi media. It can help people become aware of information that invites a making of more consicous choices. Seeing something on the web or t.v. may indeed inspire compassionate action of the soul. More often than not it gets us in the head about stuff.

I believe that we ALWAYS have a choice. It may help if I explain what I mean by this more fully.

The choice is either:

1. To follow the path of the soul

or

2. To NOT follow the path of the soul

That sounds incredibly simple. But the vast majority of people are not making the choice to follow the path of the soul. This is why the world is in the state it it in.

What happens when we follow the path of the soul?
We reconnect with the divine flow. We are then guided into 'right action'. We are at one with nature and compelled to do things that are compassionate. Not because we 'think we should' but rather because we cannot bring ourselves to do anything else.

Since fully waking up many moons ago I have been given much insight and direction simply as a result of attuning to the pull of my soul. Most of that I have never seen or read about anywhere else. Jesus and the Buddha didn't have multi media to learn what they did. Their knowing arose from the depths of their beingness. I know without a doubt that the same access to universal knowldege is within us all.

These people you speak of may be asleep. That is their journey. We cannot make other people wake up. But the opportunity is there for everybody no matter how many layers of thick confusion surround a person. It feels like a far far stretch to hope that everyone will wake up and make choices aligned with Mother Earth. Personally I feel that many (perhaps the majority) will go on sleeping, polluting and destroying the planet.

So in a nut shell. I truly experience that we have a choice. The choice is not necessarily whether I should do 'this' or 'that' but instead whether I am true to my soul.

With Love
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