A QUIZ
"Without me the mirror is nothing. Without the mirror I am wandering or running to a "place" and meeting dead ends, like being stuck in a maze thinking there are ways. And for some they will find entertainment and satisfaction in the maze. How come?" Nick Bakker
How come?
Let's do a quiz.
The answer will be different for each of us, unique as we are.
Allow for the difference.
Allow for the change.
QUESTION:
You are in a maze. You are "entertained and satisfied" by the "places" and "dead ends" and don't come out by either making it to the center (accepting the challenge) or walking away (renunciation). Is that because:
A. You don't care about the fabled treasure at the end
B. You are in the moment, grateful just to be
C. You forget you are somewhere in a maze
D. You know you distract yourself from the fear of aloneness
E. You know if you attain the centre, you face the mirrored inner "demon"—the hero's test
F. A+B
G. B+C
H. D<->C
I. E<->C
J. E+D
K. (E+D)<->C = (E<->C)+(D<->C) = H+I
Nick Bakker: Option L: You "outsmart" the centre to trick yourself and others to "freedom".
And if you are really convinced of your reality of freedom. Can you help me see your relevant place without scorning mine? Umā Inder: Scorn in the maze? How will that serve? Another distraction, for some an "entertainment that satisfies"? We can help ourselves find our relevant place through relating to each other in real, open and clean ways. It's a process... Nick Bakker: Scorn wont work, wont serve. Yes another distraction to busy one’s mind. To take one down in order to be on top. Getting high from lowering others. Gaining self-importance by unimportancing another. Im saying nothing new.
Yes I wish we all could be real, open, and clean. At least clean.
Umā Inder: Nick, have you ever seen your relevant place as a human when stunned into awe at the grace of Nature's conscious power? In a maze each step on the ground beneath and each breath of the air around defines our relevance to the path and its pull. And what of the mirror? What will you see of your relevance when your inner mirror reveals that which it was for? Nick Bakker: I was stunned and speechless when there was nothing left to gain, when there was nothing left to be, nothing left to change, nothing left to achieve. As I relaxed and breathed in that sunsetting sky after that heavy climb I was rising and sinking in a moment of grace. Relevant it was for all other moments to come and face. And now in my momentarily understanding subject to change I find myself allowing to step into a whole other range. Self-sufficient, Self-suplied, Self-generated, Self-relied.
Anywhere we find disagree let us ask each other why, just to be free.
That mirror does not project and it does not even reflect! its all in the perceiver! Umā Inder: "Relevant it was for ALL moments to come and face". That one moment of fullness is a moment that, once lived with all senses, pours itself timelessly into all other moments as a continuum. That one moment, even if apparently limited was you experiencing yourself as nothing but limitless. You are your moment! "It's all in the perceiver!"! Thank you Nick 🙏🏾 Nick Bakker Thank you 🙏