04-05-2007, 10:17 PM
Firefox, I can understand your confusion. And I'm sure that you're not totally correct, and also not totally incorrect. Things are not always so black and white.
Living in the world and experiencing the way we react to things, and especially the way that the general population reacts to things, we can become very suspicious when anyone claims to act without self-importance.
Now, I'm not saying that any of us here are free of self-importance.
However, I know for a fact that through this path I have lost a bit of self-importance and self-concern. I can still at times be a completely self-absorbed ass, but I usually can see it for what it is, even if I'm not able to stop it from happening.
In the case of this challenge that we've decided to take, I believe that it truly is for the hell of it. I've gone longer than 40 days before, and I don't expect the outcome of this challenge to really mean much of anything. I may be dead before the end of it anyway. I'm doing it because I can, and because it sounds like fun. And perhaps I'll save a bit of energy, or at the very least learn something about myself in the process.
Don Juan mentioned that "a warrior never denies himself of anything". When it comes to trying to stop ourselves from doing something, this can be a very puzzling concept; stopping without denying. I haven't quite figured that one out yet, but little by little this concept seems to be growing on me, or into me.
Living in the world and experiencing the way we react to things, and especially the way that the general population reacts to things, we can become very suspicious when anyone claims to act without self-importance.
Now, I'm not saying that any of us here are free of self-importance.
However, I know for a fact that through this path I have lost a bit of self-importance and self-concern. I can still at times be a completely self-absorbed ass, but I usually can see it for what it is, even if I'm not able to stop it from happening.
In the case of this challenge that we've decided to take, I believe that it truly is for the hell of it. I've gone longer than 40 days before, and I don't expect the outcome of this challenge to really mean much of anything. I may be dead before the end of it anyway. I'm doing it because I can, and because it sounds like fun. And perhaps I'll save a bit of energy, or at the very least learn something about myself in the process.
Don Juan mentioned that "a warrior never denies himself of anything". When it comes to trying to stop ourselves from doing something, this can be a very puzzling concept; stopping without denying. I haven't quite figured that one out yet, but little by little this concept seems to be growing on me, or into me.