Theos-Talk Archives (May 2003 Message tt00052)

Dallas wrote: <<I think all can recognize interiorly the 
urge to "rest," and some think that is "bliss." No more 
urges to act and respond to anything. But, is it so? 
Who, or what will support us, when we do NOTHING 
In fact, is doing nothing a real reward? >>

That depends on how one defines "nothing," doesn't 
it? According to the Esoteric Tradition (apparently?), 
there seems to be a form of "emptiness" (kind of like a 
"nothing, but/"but,'" in a sense?) that's somehow 
Fundamentally Different from the 
"nothings/somethings" of "ordinary reality" ...

And so, from the perspective of "ordinary reality," 
while "karma" and "duty" might generally appear to 
be describable enough, (however they might be 
described by whichever karmic tendency, at any rate), 
wouldn't Theosophists, in particular, have some 
interest in considering (even speculating, maybe ... ?) 
how "duty" and "karma" might relate to their lives 
from a "Higher Perspective" that's "Beyond" the 
descriptions of "ordinary reality" ... ?

In other words, seems to me that there might be 
"Higher" forms of "duties" and "karmas" that, if 
considered strictly from the perspective of generally 
perceived "ordinary reality" (as opposed to "less 
generally perceived" ... ), might tend to be seen as 
being on a somewhat "fundamentally different track," 
at least, (maybe?), unless, as I suspect, such tracks 
generally tend to get exoterized (converted into the 
"ordinary reality" of duality/multiplicity), along with 
"everything else"... I think I'm suggesting that there 
might be forms of intuition that might have some kind 
of role to play, at times, with respect to 
"understanding" the Esoteric Tradition. That is, not 
that literal approaches and exoterics don't have roles 
to play, but/"but"...

Speculatively,
Mauri