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Originally posted by ~springrain
[...]and how to balance a quality of life, and humanity... despite what we see and experience happening around us...
and of course we are all on a different leg of the journey... so our awarenesses will differ.
we can all learn from each other... even those who perceive themselves as "further down the road to enlightenment" than others...
perhaps that is precisely where the value is.
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The concept of enlightenment and a kind of perfection achieved from knowledge is something that I cannot believe in. What is created is an understanding of suffering, absurdity, and another kind of powerlessness. As for the value of this kind of understanding...???
This kind of metaphorical lingo - "journey", "further down the road" implies not only progression, but an end (I understand that you may not be think of the journey of road metaphor leading to a specific "place", but neither of those things tend not to lead to nowhere). I think we've gone beyond the age of ends (ironically, at a time when we talk of ends incessantly).
Awarenesses differ, but what is the value or meaning of this? I know that I would rather be more aware than less. But this era has removed us from judgement. There is nothing inherently right or wrong; there are circumstances and choices.
I don't even know how to define humanity anymore. However, I feel a burning passion somewhere within me, and somehow I feel certain that this, above all else, is indicative of humanity.
And specially from every shires ende
Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,
The hooly blisful martir for the seke
That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seeke.
Are we in need of this pilgrimage? Maybe, but in the end no one is "saved". I would much rather live in defiance than in ignorance, however.