Love your thinking. Only thing I take issue with is:
> Laws follow consciousness, not the other way around.
I believe all things are bidirectional. Emergent. Co-arising.
As above, so below.
As below, so above.
It works both ways.
As within, so without.
As without, so within.
Chicken from egg. Egg from chicken.
For the purposes of practice, it is often easier to start from within. But for some, it is easier to start from without. To each their own. A change in mind can change behavior. A change in behavior will affect mind.
This is really interesting. You're right, there's certainly an undeniable feedback at play. Because I believe that all things first arise through consciousness, it's hard for me to shake the impression that regardless, this is the 'order' -- however I agree in that it doesn't exactly matter, all things exist at once in a primally intelligent interplay.
Love your thinking. Only thing I take issue with is:
> Laws follow consciousness, not the other way around.
I believe all things are bidirectional. Emergent. Co-arising.
As above, so below.
As below, so above.
It works both ways.
As within, so without.
As without, so within.
Chicken from egg. Egg from chicken.
For the purposes of practice, it is often easier to start from within. But for some, it is easier to start from without. To each their own. A change in mind can change behavior. A change in behavior will affect mind.
🙏
This is really interesting. You're right, there's certainly an undeniable feedback at play. Because I believe that all things first arise through consciousness, it's hard for me to shake the impression that regardless, this is the 'order' -- however I agree in that it doesn't exactly matter, all things exist at once in a primally intelligent interplay.
Reminds me of two quotes:
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world” (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
And the corollary:
"Poets are the legislators of the unacknowledged world” (attributed to Oppen)
Weaving invisible spells. :)
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