Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2013 20:51:51 GMT -5
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i've long thought of men as fitting into various archetypes.
You have the Merchant, the Warrior, The Blacksmith or Farmer, and the Shaman or "Holy Man".
Whatever your were when you had "realization" informs your approach afterwards.
I was a Warrior, so was Tzu apparently, a fighter before is a fighter after ;-)
Warriors are generally useless in daily life, but are really good under duress, as such, they seek conflict, because its a kind of comfort zone where they are calm, useful, and at their best...while not under duress, we become deranged from lack of meaning, value, and engagement.
Merchants are what they are, people who are continuously selling things with some propensity for it. Merchants care not of the mysteries, but find their comfort zone in the practicalities.
Blacksmith/Farmers, are those guys that show up everyday and do a good days work, in some ways they are the opposite of the Warriors, they are not good under duress....Warriors derange under everyday life with no battle to find their calm center in, Farmers derange under duress with no daily routine and security to center themselves in.
Holy Men care not of this world, and find their comfort zone in the mysteries, while floundering in the practicalities that merchants thrive in.
Odly enough, Niz, who was a merchant by profession, was probably the Warrior Archetype, Ramana and Jesus were probably the Holy Men Archetype.
Seems like Enigma is a merchant, Max is a Farmer, yadduh yadduh yadduh.
While Warriors and Farmers are kinda opposites in their comfort zone, there is an affinity in that they are doers, and where Merchants and Holy Men are opposites in their comfort zone, there is an affinity in that they are inherently thinkers.
In this thought based reality, it's kinda no surprise that the thinkers, the Merchants and Holy Men, have had the most influence in shaping humanity.
Whatever your archetype before coming to the ineffable, will probably inform your approach after.
And I think Tzu believes himself to be a Holy Man based on his "teachings" he posts...... you are just projecting a "Warrior" persona on him..... hahahahahaha
Probably lol
Who knows,
I don't see Max looking for a fight though, or being all that comfortable when he finds himself in one, though he won't run from one...seems like most Farmers are like that
Probably an inordinate amount of folks are the Warrior type in spiritual circles, cause there isn't too much call for our services in these times, so the depravity that that we find ourselves in in day to day life without some fight to fight probably leads us into all this speeeerachul stuff lol
I use to really Rez with a Taoism quote that was something like:
You've gotta fight with the savage ferocity and tenacity of a warrior to conquer the inner self."
The fight for Truth was one I was willing to fight to the death.
Oh the irony of finding out that Truth is irrelevant lol