interest in learning of your continued learning on this subject
also connecting this to the previously discussed convents & related (i can't remember where that was discussed tbh, here or not) of routine and jobs and ritual as a way to lose (some of) the emotional labors of otherwise-life and find whatever it is you're looking for, and how it reduces your choices (do your chores or do not, follow the rituals or do not, eat what is provided or do not) but does not remove choice or make choice irrelevant; indeed I would go so far as to say it makes those choices more ... obvious? to the people making them, making the people more aware that choosing not to do is still choosing. and that choosing to work on whatever it is you're there to work on is still always a choice and not one so obvious to others as choosing not to do your assigned chores, so with the awareness of not-doing being a choice, it can instill both greater awareness in the arena of choice (of self and of others) and, through time spent in such an environment, greater motivation to actually and actively choose to do or not do things in a conscious manner upon return to otherwise-life, should the choice to return to otherwise-life be made.
Sometimes I think that if I had been raised with Traditions and Rituals I would have an easier time finding belonging and purpose (but mostly belonging, that hardest of concepts to locate for me), but I cannot place traditions and rituals onto myself because I balk at the restrictions? And I wonder, if I'd been raised in them, would I be the one to balk and leave regardless, or would I find my contentment more easily and question but remain? Things that cannot be answered but interest my thinking anyway.
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Date: 2015-07-30 05:11 pm (UTC)also connecting this to the previously discussed convents & related (i can't remember where that was discussed tbh, here or not) of routine and jobs and ritual as a way to lose (some of) the emotional labors of otherwise-life and find whatever it is you're looking for, and how it reduces your choices (do your chores or do not, follow the rituals or do not, eat what is provided or do not) but does not remove choice or make choice irrelevant; indeed I would go so far as to say it makes those choices more ... obvious? to the people making them, making the people more aware that choosing not to do is still choosing. and that choosing to work on whatever it is you're there to work on is still always a choice and not one so obvious to others as choosing not to do your assigned chores, so with the awareness of not-doing being a choice, it can instill both greater awareness in the arena of choice (of self and of others) and, through time spent in such an environment, greater motivation to actually and actively choose to do or not do things in a conscious manner upon return to otherwise-life, should the choice to return to otherwise-life be made.
Sometimes I think that if I had been raised with Traditions and Rituals I would have an easier time finding belonging and purpose (but mostly belonging, that hardest of concepts to locate for me), but I cannot place traditions and rituals onto myself because I balk at the restrictions? And I wonder, if I'd been raised in them, would I be the one to balk and leave regardless, or would I find my contentment more easily and question but remain? Things that cannot be answered but interest my thinking anyway.