Knowing Your Impulses (187)

Introduction

There are many impulses in us, one of them is the impulse for the new, to know, to experience what is new. This impulse just like so many within us if channeled or directed correctly can be marvelous. However, if channeled incorrectly it can be devastating.

Impulse to Experience the New

That impulse to experience the new can lead us to study to meditate to explore ourselves and experience the joy of a new discovery about nature, life, esotericism and ourselves. The problem is that we have to be aware of that impulse. Know that it is something that comes from beyond the mind.

Not Aware of Impulse

When we are not aware of that impulse we have a problem, we think that we are that thing (i.e. that impulse). We should see within us that that impulse is fine, the only problem is that it can be taken by the egos within us - principally, by lust and materialism.

That divine impulse when it is taken by the ego, is taken into matter. So we buy new things, we search for the sensation of new material objects, the new sensation of having something new and discovering what it can do and then with lust it is all about new sensations and new fractionings of one’s sexuality.

Conclusion

This is just one example of the many impulses that we have. The general work is to be able to discover the impulse and it’s origin and then clean it. This applies very importantly and directly to the sexual impulse that we have.

In this we have awakening first then death. The awakening is to discover and realize this impulse as something that comes from beyond the mind and to see it as natural as something divine and then death comes into play, when we start to remove the egos that latch onto it and are responsible for dirtying it and putting it into relativity and duality and also into matter.

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