To: K-list
Recieved: 2001/09/27 06:58
Subject: Re: [K-list] Hello, intro, some questions, a plug for my bussiness, etc.
From: Serenasbliss

> > 3)Does anyone have experience with really living a dedicated sadhana- like
> 8
> > hours+ a day while living "in the world?" I am interested in moving
> towards
> > a more "monk-like" lifestyle- doing periods of silence, fasting, lots of
> > meditation- but not going to a monastery. For people who have experienced
> > this type of lifestyle- any thoughts or experiences.

I remember waaay back when I was young, I idealized this kind of
lifestyle and craved it; after my physical and mental health crashed
(kundalini?) it was all I was fit for. I worked my recovery like a full-time
job and did my particular form of meditation (free-associative writing,
dialoging with my Goddess/Higher Self)
three to four hours a day. I did other stuff too.

I had to work part time during parts of
this, and only service work was tolerable. I worked in the mental
health field and found that work to be really helpful to my process in that
it gave me extended practice using some of my k-abilities.

> There seem to be people who seek absorption with the ultimate, loss of
self,
> turning away from the world - and those who seek union - to be united, yet
> also fully individual, enabling to function more fully in this world. Have
> I got this right?? Any opinions on this?

I swing back and forth between the two depending on what I seem
to need to grow. Engaging with Goddess sometimes means solitude
and sometimes it means working with other people. I tend to see the
turning away from the world as a lifestyle which temporarily
facilitates certain kinds of
internal processes; a means to an end, and nothing
so wonderful of itself.

If contact with people endangers my "enlightenment",
that is in my mind a measure of how fragile my enlightenment is. On the other
hand, I'm pretty fierce about guarding my time to write/pray/meditate,
and I get into pretty bad shape in a short amount of time
(one week or less) if I can't get that daily solitude.

>I'm a union type myself. I have
> absolutely no desire to turn away from this world - but an intense desire
to
> unite with it as fully as possible and be fully myself (individuated as
Jung
> would put it)

I like the world even more when I've got myself thoroughly sorted out
with Her help... things sparkle more, and I know how to handle situations
that would otherwise make me worry.

>
> Cheers
> Kate.

Smiles
Serena

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