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<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>How do we best get a sense of what we mean by haste?\u00a0 Let us look at what lives in an F1 driver as a way into this subject.<\/span><\/p>\n Does a Formula 1 driver go about the race in haste?\u00a0 He goes fast but to do this, he must be inwardly very together and not allowing rashness or haste into any part of his being.\u00a0 If he does, he will be off the track pretty quickly.<\/span><\/p>\n He must keep his focus and perspective on where he is in relation to the race, the lap, the corner, and not for instance on the performance of the other cars in the race or what the other drivers may be planning.\u00a0 He must keep his focus on where he is at now, on the track, what is lying in front of him and how he can get through this fastest without becoming fantastical about anything.\u00a0 In this way he can go fast.<\/span><\/p>\n How do you know if somebody is doing something in haste?\u00a0 Typical signs will be that their work is of a poor standard; information is missing, verbally or in writing, so their point is difficult to follow; something gets damaged in the process of use or repair.\u00a0 Dishes washed in haste will not be clean or in good condition.<\/span><\/p>\n Where should your focus be if you want to be in patience?\u00a0 In the immediate here and now and from a point of perspective if possible (i.e.\u00a0 looking at oneself as if from the outside, a bigger picture perspective).<\/span><\/p>\n What you feed will grow.\u00a0 Do not focus on doing things with less haste.\u00a0 Rather focus on practising patience.\u00a0 We all have the possibility and capacity to choose what you want to focus on.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>We need to exercise this in patience.<\/span><\/p>\n Haste is one of the dominant lens closers or blockers.\u00a0 \u00a0Haste draws the other lens closers towards you and you will typically see evidence of the other lens closers in the actions of somebody in haste, for example fantasy and prejudice.\u00a0 If one \u2018feeds\u2019 patience on the other hand, objectivity and openness to other things not yet identified will certainly accompany patience.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n We can all agree that we have experienced fear in our lives at some point.\u00a0 What happens when you experience fear?\u00a0 Fear makes you feel vulnerable or insignificant, not in control.\u00a0 It freezes us to inactivity and obedience.\u00a0 We become afraid of anything new or not provided by others.<\/span><\/p>\n So, what can cause us to experience fear in our lives?\u00a0 How can we better understand how to conquer it.<\/span><\/p>\n Fear is related to the \u2018god\u2019 of materialism which presents us with technology and every creature comfort we experience, together with a promise to make our lives easier.\u00a0 It tries to convince us that we must give ourselves up to external comforts and to \u2018societal\u2019 rules or paradigms.\u00a0 While there may be benefits in our lives from the new technology, it causes people to become dependent on it \u2013 to give up their identity for it.\u00a0 It can encourage people to avoid taking responsibility for who they are and therefore not realise what they are capable of being.\u00a0 The minute there is a chance that your tech toys can be taken away from you or can be lost, you feel fear as a result.<\/span><\/p>\n The antidote for overcoming this type of fear is to take ownership of yourself and your capabilities.\u00a0 It takes courage to take ownership and responsibility for what is happening around you and the impact you have on your environment.\u00a0 This means one must hold on to one\u2019s\u2019 individuality and diligently and patiently work towards your own conscious path in life.\u00a0 This is courage, the antidote to fear.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>When we have no experience on a particular issue, we cannot talk about it as we simply do not have it in us.\u00a0 It is like we are describing something in a dream.\u00a0 We simply do not grasp it.\u00a0 It is as though we are talking about a situation or thing that is not real.\u00a0 Any careful listener will establish that this is fantasy.<\/span><\/p>\n In gaining experience we must internalise our own experiences.\u00a0 This means making them our own.\u00a0 When they are our own, we can recall them and the logic or circumstance behind them and share this logically with others.\u00a0 They are able to follow, or see through their own eyes, what we are describing.<\/span><\/p>\n Somebody with experience in a specific area of life can share this with others effectively and so take others along with them.\u00a0 The converse is that those without experience on a specific area cannot take others along with them on that topic; they would only be able to take them along the path of their fantasy which has no relevance to real existence.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n FANTASY<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n F<\/span>antasy\u00a0encourages you to dream and takes you on a flight away from reality into a world of make-believe.\u00a0 Fantasy promises that there is an ideal Maja-land.\u00a0 It takes you out of the moment.\u00a0 While in the moment, reality exists, in fantasy there is nothing but the ideal miraculously already there.\u00a0 It is just suddenly there, without having been made.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Fantasy is sometimes referred to as the Luciferic state.\u00a0 What you think is reality, is not actually so.\u00a0 Fantastic thoughts are fleeting moments where one finds oneself losing connection to the here and now. It is as though a dream state takes over in one.<\/span><\/p>\n For example, one meets a customer, and one allows oneself to indulge in fanciful fleeting thoughts about what you think that they might be saying or presenting. One allows a marvellous picture of a great honourable person, who is also a competent contractor, to form in our inner lives.\u00a0 What happens in reality is that the customer is a poor contractor, a dishonest person, and we do not get paid. In this case we allowed fantasy to live in us and convince us that that the apparition was reality.<\/span><\/p>\n The counter to fantasy is objectivity.\u00a0 In practicing objectivity, one must live in the now and check exactly what we are holding in our inner lives \u2013 making sure that we are not fanaticising.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>We all blame others.\u00a0 We do it in this way.\u00a0 It is never me but rather someone else that has led our society to this point.\u00a0 Or, I could not get this done because someone else had not met their commitments.\u00a0 State personalities, for example, are good at blaming others or the past.<\/span><\/p>\n When you move into the \u2018blame\u2019 mode, you let go of the \u2018I\u2019 mode, the solution mode, and release your \u2018I\u2019 for the use by someone else.\u00a0 One does not take ownership of oneself but instead one allows ones\u2019 \u2018I\u2019 to be irresponsible.<\/span><\/p>\n The counter quality to blame is ownership of self.\u00a0 Here one decides to keep possession of ones\u2019 \u2018I.\u2019\u00a0 We decide to want to be part of the solution. When we move into solution mode we take ownership of the situation, we are willingly accountable, we own our own thoughts, feelings and will and in the words of \u2018Goethe\u2019, providence moves with us.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>Positivity is the capacity and desire to find the positive in situations.\u00a0 There is always something positive hidden in any circumstance.\u00a0 For example, where the Christ and his disciples come across a dead dog in the path, the disciples encourage the Christ to walk around the scene to avoid the bad smell.\u00a0 The Christ decides to walk up to the dead dog, despite the bad smell, and points out the dog\u2019s beautiful teeth.<\/span><\/p>\n In a meeting with a customer that goes wrong, there is always the positive that one learned something or that the customer is now available to meet again to resolve matters.<\/span><\/p>\n We need to want to find such positives in all situations and circumstances in life.\u00a0 It brings a quality to our souls that enables us to face more.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>The key to openness is to practice knowing that there is always a bigger reality than the one, one is recognising right now.<\/span><\/p>\n The foundation of all inner development is Veneration for the truth.\u00a0 We do not know the truth to many things right now, but we can inherently orient ourselves to knowing that there is a truth. If we do this and then search for what it is, we are open, we allow something to appear out of our peripheral vision as it were, into something directly in front of us that we can now see. This is not in the form of a physical thing, but a new concept that we did not have before.<\/span><\/p>\n The practice of openness allows us to get better connections between concepts.\u00a0 We start to see their interrelationships better.\u00a0 We get to understand the world and life.<\/span><\/p>\n Mark Twain said, \u2018It is not what we don\u2019t know that is the problem, but rather what we definitely know that aren\u2019t so.\u2019\u00a0 We can never get a clear idea of interrelated concepts if we pursue what Mark Twain is saying that we should not pursue.<\/span><\/p>\n Prejudice will keep us living with false concepts.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Skill is an earthly thing, something we need in our earthly life. It is learned through practice and repetition.\u00a0 Practice brings the skill into our daily capacity to live in the material world.\u00a0 Examples would be typing, becoming an artisan or good with Excel.\u00a0 It is a mind-soul dominant activity.\u00a0 It has to do with being able to connect concepts of the material world to each other in a logical way.\u00a0 Skill has to do with the bodily interfacing with the material world.<\/p>\n We also develop skills, for example in ball games.\u00a0 We repeat moves and relationships of the ball to the racket or foot or bat and to the field of play and the players. Some kind of instinct develops in this process as it does with typing.\u00a0 Skill largely stays around ball skills more than strategy and oversight on the pitch which is no longer skill but the ability to orientate.<\/p>\n Block makers develop skills in machine set-up and filling for example and forklift drives in handling packs without breaking them in transit.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Diligence, or capacity to follow through, is approached from a spiritual capacity point of view.\u00a0 What we mean by diligence is that we develop a capacity to know what we are thinking at more times and for longer, or where we are in our inner orientation to things.\u00a0 If we are lazy in this regard, we flit from thought to thought without knowing where we are and when it happens.\u00a0 In practicing diligence, one needs to develop an orientation to time by extracting oneself above daily activities and being aware of where the day is and where I am in relation to this.\u00a0 As one develops the capacity of diligence, the outcome is that one feels a developing confidence that one \u2018can\u2019 when one puts ones\u2019 mind to something.\u00a0 This is so because we own our thoughts more.\u00a0 We have the strength to do this.\u00a0 People with diligence find it much easier to do what they say they will.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Clarity has as its opposite, doubt.\u00a0 Doubting is a destructive force if allowed to multiply in us.\u00a0 Clarity must therefore be nurtured as the dominant of the two in our souls.\u00a0 Clarity comes when one can build a thought structure that is factually based by actively connecting percepts and concepts together.\u00a0 The conscious connection of percepts and concepts does not only apply to material ones but can also become clarity of a spiritual nature when spiritual concepts are connected. This latter capacity depends on the development of clarity with material concepts.\u00a0 The development of clarity comes when one desires to be attentive to things in life.<\/p>\n Like all other lens openers, the development of one enables the development of others.\u00a0 Clarity hinges on diligence but supports the building of courage.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n We have to know whether we are being selfless or not.\u00a0 It is not something anyone else can judge.\u00a0 Selflessness is a point of purity within one that we need to be very careful about granting ourselves leniently.\u00a0 Selflessness puts others first or other worthy initiatives first.\u00a0 It is in search of the Good and the True and wants these to prevail above any personal preference.\u00a0 It goes with objectivity and perspective in that we have to look down on ourselves to see whether we are being selfless.\u00a0 Perhaps selflessness is a quality that is in pursuit of being guiltless;\u00a0 just really free from sin?\u00a0 To assist ourselves and others to strengthen the insight into selflessness we could ask others, in the right way, are you acting selflessly?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n One has to refer to\u00a0<\/span>1 Corinthians 13<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>for this.<\/p>\n Love has the quality of being the canvas on which the picture is painted.\u00a0 In this case it is the picture of what we can become as a spiritual being with developed soul capacities.\u00a0 The two commandments start with the word love. According to John, just before the Christ was taken captive, he spoke to the disciples and asked that they love each other as he had loved them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
\n Lens Openers<\/strong><\/td>\n Lens Closers<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Courage<\/td>\n Fear<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Clarity<\/td>\n Doubt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Love \u2013 Compassion \u2013 Care<\/td>\n Hate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Patience<\/td>\n Haste<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Ownership of self<\/td>\n Blame<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Objectivity<\/td>\n Fantasy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Skill<\/td>\n Lack of skill<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Experience<\/td>\n Lack of experience<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Diligence<\/td>\n Laziness<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Positivity<\/td>\n Negativity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Openness<\/td>\n Prejudice<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Selflessness<\/td>\n Self-indulgence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/strong><\/h2>\n
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HASTE<\/strong><\/h2>\n
FEAR<\/strong><\/h2>\n
EXPERIENCE<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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\u00a0BLAME<\/strong><\/h2>\n
POSITIVITY \/ NEGATIVITY<\/strong><\/h2>\n
OPENNESS \/ PREJUDICE<\/strong><\/h2>\n
SKILL<\/strong><\/h2>\n
DILIGENCE<\/strong><\/h2>\n
CLARITY<\/strong><\/h2>\n
SELFLESSNESS<\/strong><\/h2>\n
LOVE<\/strong><\/h2>\n
1 COMMENT<\/h1>\n
Going through the process to clarify and distill some of these down was a really fun and soul\/spirit opening process.
Re-reading these gives me a similar feeling to when we were going through the process.
I think this is very good start and gives good clarity to start a very detailed process that we should all be going through on our own to further develop our own understanding of what each of these elements is.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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THE LENS CONCEPTS PICTURE Lens Openers Lens Closers Courage Fear Clarity Doubt Love \u2013 Compassion \u2013 Care Hate Patience Haste Ownership of self Blame Objectivity Fantasy Skill Lack of skill Experience Lack of experience Diligence Laziness Positivity Negativity Openness Prejudice Selflessness Self-indulgence HASTE \u00a0How do we best get a sense of what we mean by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liberty"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n