Life Is Full of Facilitations (Designed for Your Dependent Butt)

[Sincerity]

And you depend on them until you're mature enough to be able to live without them.

I've been racking my mind trying to find words for how to describe the following phenomenon. There are facilitations set up for you when you're not ready yet to be independent in life. Some of these are rather wisely self-created by society to eg. propel young people and have a "safety net", and some are on a much deeper mind level. Examples of these facilitations:

• Wage slavery, your job being doing what you're told and that's it. This is literally still being a kid in school
• Parental support
• A romantic partner (a facilitation in reality for you to develop love, grow yourself, etc.), family, friends, "people you can talk to"
• Structures in the mind propelling you towards actions, instead of being self-energy-reliant (note: I do not mean acting on your whims, I mean having built yourself profoundly as an energetic being with core energies you can always rely on)
• A general perception of "others"
• General sanity and unawareness of the deepest energetic processes, reality's self-creation

You can live with facilitations all your life but if you're developing yourself, your spirit will be calling you for something deeper. You'll need to let go of these crutches in favour of independence. Letting go of the training kid wheels on your mind-bike gives you the chance to develop CHARACTER - or your energetic system. That's what the game is about.

Example from my life: just this month I quit college even though I was on the brink of finishing it. I want no title. I will not be judged based on some dumb ass certification for fake jobs for fake people. I told my parents I was grateful but I will live my own life only and I'll do whatever I want. I want to have GENUINE skill and energy and instead so far I coasted through the education system and seemlessly got a rather good job in a big company. This is not life. This is living on crutches.

Disposing of the training wheels (when you're ready) is good. Don't settle for comfort. Be courageous. THIS is the spiritual journey. This is what life is about. The journey of you.

You'll find that you can ride the bike perfectly fine anyway.

Edited November 3, 2024 by Sincerity

[Daniel123]

That is an interesting perspective, I like it.

What do you do now after dropping out of college?

[Sincerity]

9 hours ago, Daniel123 said:

That is an interesting perspective, I like it.

What do you do now after dropping out of college?

Thanks! For now still working my corporate job, and in the meanwhile focusing on building up a new self-willed creator/worker/doer energy (which I feel is arising in me with time) which will be my new engine for the next years/decades. Trying new things, new creative projects, looking for a niche which would suit me for now.

[Arthogaan]

How would the total extreme of no facilitations look like? Buddha being totally blissed out without facilitation of progress, success, movement, body?

[Sincerity]

41 minutes ago, Arthogaan said:

How would the total extreme of no facilitations look like? Buddha being totally blissed out without facilitation of progress, success, movement, body?

I think "visible reality" is the ultimate facilitation.  A facilitation designed to help you see energy/spirit clearly, starkly, manifested; to help guide you to independence of mind.

I think no facilitations would be what we call death, or God.

Edited November 5, 2024 by Sincerity

[Sincerity]

A facilitation is basically when responsibility for something is outsourced for you so you don't have to care about it. 

Society is one enormous facilitation self-created by its members for everyone involved. The responsibility of being a doctor, lawyer, politician, farmer, guy sweeping the street is outsourced for us.

But the even bigger facilitation (within facilitation, within facilitation...) is the mind and all of its structures and illusions/deceptions - which are THE facilitations! When you're under an illusion, the "other side of the illusion" is outside your conscious responsibility and so you can live your life without giving the slighest shit about it.

And then reality itself.

[OBEler]

@Sincerity I don't know you but if you are close to finishing studying I would do that.

It sounds cool to not finish so closely if you are young but your older self will punish you later for not doing it.

A degree gives a signal to the world that you are somehow capable of doing something m

People who drop off from college close before finishing it are mostly a red flag for companys.

 

[Sincerity]

3 minutes ago, OBEler said:

It sounds cool to not finish so closely if you are young but your older self will punish you later for not doing it.

I'll 100% be proud of this decision on my deathbed. And I'll make more like these I'm sure. I want a life that's lived, and not just be a slave of comfort and patterns.

4 minutes ago, OBEler said:

A degree gives a signal to the world that you are somehow capable of doing something m

I want my skill and the truth of me to be a signal to the world. I'll build up my portfolio.

6 minutes ago, OBEler said:

People who drop off from college close before finishing it are mostly a red flag for companys.

Fuck these companies.

Thanks for the comment though!

[OBEler]

@Sincerity a slave of comfort and patterns is not as bad as you think. Much better than probably most of the  spiritual energy healer.

 

 

[Arthogaan]

4 hours ago, OBEler said:

@Sincerity a slave of comfort and patterns is not as bad as you think. Much better than probably most of the  spiritual energy healer.

 

 

Why? How is slave better?

[OBEler]

@Arthogaan work in a company has a lot of advantages. You are not alone but work in a team, you have stable income therefore you can plan things in the future, a corporation an your work also evolves through technology and it's interesting to see the development etc. also you have the opportunity to work for a different company .

Do your thing, be independent but you will then just be the slave of your customers. 

[Whitney Edwards]

@Sincerity when you are (actually) living in a society, you're already a slave. Don't you think? 

I mean freedom would have been if you had left everything for good. 

[Sincerity]

7 hours ago, OBEler said:

Much better than probably most of the  spiritual energy healer.

I'd certainly not go into any "spiritual career" anytime soon.

18 minutes ago, OBEler said:

@Arthogaan work in a company has a lot of advantages. You are not alone but work in a team, you have stable income therefore you can plan things in the future, a corporation an your work also evolves through technology and it's interesting to see the development etc. also you have the opportunity to work for a different company 

Yeah, facilitations.

[Sincerity]

6 minutes ago, Buck Edwards said:

@Sincerity when you are (actually) living in a society, you're already a slave. Don't you think? 

I mean freedom would have been if you had left everything for good. 

Yeah that's kind of true. But also in a sense you have more freedom to focus on your purpose when other things are taken care of for you.

Facilitations are there because one isn't ready yet to transcend them. So it doesn't necessarily mean that one is "a slave". These "restrictions" are basically self-created.

[Whitney Edwards]

3 minutes ago, Sincerity said:

Yeah that's kind of true. But also in a sense you have more freedom to focus on your purpose when other things are taken care of for you.

Facilitations are there because one isn't ready yet to transcend them. So it doesn't necessarily mean that one is "a slave". These "restrictions" are basically self-created.

Ok then make a list of every tiny (and even tiniest) little thing you like about life around you and the world and keep looking at every item on that list everyday. What do you find? Do they look like facilitations? What do they mean to you? Would they add a whole different meaning to your life if they always existed with you? Will they drain all the meaning and transcendence from your life if they suddenly stopped existing? 

Just do this as an exercise and reflect back on your thread and insight. It might be a great exercise in the context of this thread. 

[Daniel123]

12 hours ago, OBEler said:

@Arthogaan work in a company has a lot of advantages. You are not alone but work in a team, you have stable income therefore you can plan things in the future, a corporation an your work also evolves through technology and it's interesting to see the development etc. also you have the opportunity to work for a different company .

Do your thing, be independent but you will then just be the slave of your customers. 

This is very true. It's a good way to get a foundation of material and social needs plus some general stability in your life. You can have a creatively fulfilling job as an employee as well. Not every employee has to be a mindless wage-slave-worker. And I think not everyone has to be an entepreneur just for the sake of it. If that is someone's calling though, all power to him!

You don't have to overcome every facilitation provided by society I think. You can also make use of some to expedite your growth in other areas.

[Rafael Thundercat]

26 minutes ago, Daniel123 said:

 

You don't have to overcome every facilitation provided by society I think. You can also make use of some to expedite your growth in other areas.

One friend was trying to squeeze a fruit by hand to make smootie. I saw it and asked why? He said he dont want to use the moder gadjets anymore because it comes from capitalism. I hit him with the juicer and said: Take,use this you fucking Hippie!!

[Sincerity]

1 hour ago, Daniel123 said:

You don't have to overcome every facilitation provided by society I think.

Of course you don't have to overcome EVERY one, and you won't. Should have mentioned this in my original post.

You will feel callings to let go of certain facilitations at some points in life though and when these callings come, it's best to act on them because they are callings for the growth of your character/energetic system.

The facilitations are often very addictive and hard to let go of though, and it's easier to convince yourself that the callings are just irrational, crazy thought and should be discarded.

[Daniel123]

12 minutes ago, Sincerity said:

The facilitations are often very addictive and hard to let go of though, and it's easier to convince yourself that the callings are just irrational, crazy thought and should be discarded.

That is a good point, it's very easy to get complacent and settle as if they are the best life has to offer instead of using them as a stepping stone and safety net.