I hope it's only the beginning!
I agree with Beesty Boy. Anything which is alive and evolves always needs new [means of] expressions.
Exactly! Everything which is alive. And Universe is very much alive. From human perspective, its hardly conceivable, its nature hardly apprehended by mundane mind covered in crap. And this life seems eternal in comparison with our brief moment here.
I heard of an expression - "only dead things don't change". Don't know if you have the same one in English.
We humans have ability to be Creator, in small. We can animate dead things, by assigning them meanings. Same like to these letters I now use, and you now read (notice there's no difference actually in time here, it is "now" in both cases, while I write it and while you read it. not important). It is a dead thing but we give them meaning and they become alive, filled with images, emotions, information.
In order to go further, to continue here with our discussion I must change and alter into ("new") expression these dead letters.
In this case same can be said about o9a. In order to move further it must breed new expressions, of ultimately dead things. But all of these things are mediums. Our bodies are just mediums.. our cultures, variations etc.
Agreed. So long as o9a is free to develop variations and mutations. It's a beautiful thing to watch. Some in o9a don't like the idea of variations and mutations though. They have this idea that it should be restricted to one outer form.
Those variations and mutations are not just beautiful thing to watch. Those are also a very necessity of every living being which provides them with two important things: Survival and Evolution.
But in my unenlightened opinion, both views should co-exist in a way. Won't like to elaborate it now and here. But can look at it through yet another prism. That of Islam. In some of my previous posts I already mentioned two currents developed within the Islam in early years. Sunnah and shia. And they co-existed (not always in peace, Satan forbids), for long centuries since then.
While I was educating myself in ways of Islam, prior to my shehada, I instantly thought of how this division was actually good for Islam. Somehow on one side you have sunnah muslims, who are much like those in o9a who think that o9a should have only one outer form. They are strict orthodoxy, presumably like those who want this unified expression. Hm? So these sunnah muslims in a way preserved original teachings of Muhammed s.a.w.s, the core in that outer form which surfaced during early days of Islam.
On the other hand you had those shia muslims who developed many mutations and variations of Islam, in some cases degrading it, in some improving it. But ultimate value of shia Islam is that which gave whole lot of new dimensions to that orthodoxy, enriching it, making it more deep, more meaningful and more metaphysical. But above all making it more agile to survive and adapt to the flow of time, or to the space it occupies (that "space" being spatial, or within the mind).
I think you can see why both "currents" in o9a should and will exist. And maybe they always existed. I just recalled some recent article about AL and CB as type of archetypes of ONA. Interesting one. Anyhow, all that I said how shias are more dangerous stays. Orthodox are usually just brute force that wears-off quickly. Those non-orthodox are in better relationship with Time (Satan) I would say.
Whatever, and however great achievements or insights of true Adepts/ Masters of their times, they should not, and could not ever be merit of anything present, in terms of literal interpretation. Every Adept, every Teacher was always a product of their time. They always were, in this or that amount, conditioned by causal, thus conditioned by time in which they existed, by culture they came from, things they learned or not and so on.
While speaking of Islam - an example of what I said in passage above: One of the things Muhammed s.a.w.s left as sunnah, both for men and women, is clipping their nails! Why? Allegedly, archangel Gabriel showed him how scary jinns and shaitans live under long nails of people.
Could it simply be that Prophet had mystical experience of some kind, expansion of awareness, and had a vision of bacteria and stuff? But how could he possibly give any other interpretation (to common man of that time in case he knew) but "jinns". When you look bacteria under the microscope they look a bit creepy. Don't they? So, you get my point? Prophet was influenced by conditions of time-space he occupied.
Good thing is you are young, and those orthodox ones are probably with one leg in their grave. Ha! But, that is how it should be, how it was and how it always will be. Nothing new under the skies - blah, blah.
We all are guilty of spending 'too much' time online doing whatever we each do in cyberspace. The internet isn't going anywhere soon. I think it's now safe to say that the internet is just as much a part of our everyday human lives and society as cars, phones, and lipstick
As I assume that you're trying to keep up with this technology as much as you can - Be prepared for a shock: Here in the village only piece of equipment I have is this PENTIUM IV with very low performances! No phones of any kind. No car. But I have my favorite lipstick always by my side. It fits perfectly my wild bushy beard. I really like to get away from town for whole summer into the wild. Here, is beautiful.. As I use this machine only for writing and reading, I noticed there are some more interesting topics around this forum. This one wears-off. Unless some other nut rolls this way soon.
Don't worry about the criticism. I wasn't offended. It was funny. As I said: I'm open to criticism, especially constructive criticism. There is no better way to help you in self-development other than by having a [bio-]Feedback-Loop with your environment and other people. There is no such thing as evolution or self-development in isolation.
Same principle applies to something like o9a. It needs criticism, conflict, tension, rivalries, and so on. Shram/Jihad/Kampf/Struggle is evolution. May ONA never know peace.
That criticism had other dimensions to it when I recall now..
I think this kind of dialogue is wearing-off the topic actually. We are here farting like two old wise monks on some sunny banks of Ganges. We need a bit of tension. Here I farted out some material - make some tension, give us some new angles to confront.
We are of Peace,
Always..
