An old poem on the value of solitude

[Jo96]

ignoring the various dogmas in the video I thought this poem was very motivational and made a lot of sense. I’ve been thinking a lot on ego development and realized that it may be possible to skip multiple stages simply by being in solitude as our egos develop relative to the world. 

for my own personal experience I skipped a couple stages due to a very strong existential Crisis that brought me to suicide. So I know it’s possible for others.( but hopefully in a less painful way) 

although if you skip stages it may take you sometime to reorient yourself. I know for myself I spent a very long time regressing and coming back simply because I didn’t know what to think of my new differences within my consciousness. It also isn’t helpful when our society is not very supportive of these higher strategist, and, Construct and,  unitive stages.

You can begin to doubt and question yourself, and even begin to think you’re  simply arrogant or crazy as you try to express things to others in your life. You want to communicate with them like you did before on the same level but you realize overtime there is a profound disconnect that doesn’t allow certain truths to be discussed.
 

So it can take some time  to even realize this. I know for myself I just thought it was a matter of explanation or maybe I myself was missing something, and as a result old defense mechanisms would come up,  ego backlash from the  stress of the disconnect, and loneness. Taking the leap from pluralist to strategist and onward can be very difficult while holding together relationships. It’s not to say that it can’t be done, but taking some time in solitude is probably valuable as you take the leap. 

Edited October 6, 2020 by Jo96

[Moksha]

Thank you for sharing this. I only watched a few minutes, and have bookmarked the rest for later. It is beautiful. I am happy to hear that you are in a better place now in your life.

[Jo96]

3 minutes ago, Moksha said:

Thank you for sharing this. I only watched a few minutes, and have bookmarked the rest for later. It is beautiful. I am happy to hear that you are in a better place now in your life.

thank you. That was 2 years ago. I’m better now bro. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. If you feel to: close your eyes and sit in meditation with it or lay down. It was very powerful in my own experience. 

(: 

[Moksha]

I have a new favorite song. Thanks again for sharing this.

• Now that I’ve seen the plague of conceptual thinking, I’m off to live in the unborn peace of the wildwoods.
• Every being in existence is threatened by affliction and totally bound by terrifying chains of duality.
• Since beings prefer to believe that the Buddhas have taught that they should do only what they like, and nothing else, when I teach the real dharma way, everyone reviles me like an enemy.
• Even if you spend this life in introspection, it passes so quickly, without pausing, day or night. Having seen that laziness always gets the better of my virtue and that this mind won’t settle, even a little, I’m off to the wildwoods right now.
• All the dharma collections, the sage has taught, come down to giving up desires, and settling evenly in the peaceful truth, nothing else. Oh mind, consider your mortality and be intent to go to the wildwoods.
• Intellectually understanding phenomena’s nature, and leaving them as mere objects of mindfulness, is no help.
• Don’t dwell on the past, or fantasize about the future. Don’t engineer this natural, ongoing presence. Don’t direct the mind or draw it within. Just let it settle, without distraction, resting without grasping, or conceptually structuring this clarity that is vivid, quiet, lucid, illuminating.
• You needn’t think about anything other than the needs of beings.
• This message, spoken for your benefit, came straight from the heart. Mind, take it, and head to the wildwoods.