Diebert wrote:
To really define femininity, what an undertaking! Because it was you who described her as mirage, hiding anywhere in the universe, constantly shifting and changing benchmarks, not having a direct relation with anything: nothing but a puff of air. Don't you see that hunting her down to 'dislodge' her from minds, to 'eliminate her' can turn into a ghost hunt? Like warning for 'the devil' on our left shoulder. It would become another Don Quichotte story, the brave knight endlessly chasing windmills.
The reason the old “Don†ran around chasing windmills, was because he did not stop to question the rationality of his quest, (and fighting windmills is pretty irrational) therefore any masculine qualities he may have brought to that quest were rendered impotent and absurd.
It is the same for most men; they run around building their lives, finding happiness in the fruits of their toil, sadness and frustration in their mistakes and losses, and basically being silly fools like Don.
This is the feminine at play - not the masculine.
So the feminine is easy to find if you’re prepared to look, but it takes a strong mind, and an even stronger will to look closely.
And I said that while the feminine needs the masculine, the masculine mind doesn't need the feminine or even specific awareness of her, to be masculine.
It is true that the feminine mind depends for its existence on the masculine mind, but what you’re missing Diebert, is that most men depend on the feminine to also exist - and when I say “most men†I mean 99.9% of them. Men who have not turned their minds to the discovery of wisdom are living a mostly feminine existence, because their motivations and actions are dedicated to the feminine.
Everyday, most men go to work. By doing so they are contributing to the ignorance in the world, because work is fundamentally a feminine activity. For example, say a man spends eight hours every day working down a mine – why is he doing this? One reason would be so that he can afford food and shelter, as well as some beer and cigarettes. Another reason would be to attract a woman to marry, and raise a family with. All these activities make him feel successful, because he is building a life and a future for himself. All these activities are attachments; which means, he is not living a life dedicated to Truth.
So even though men carry the seed of masculinity within them, most squander it on enjoying life in the feminine. There are a few men that have made understanding Reality their job – so it is those few that are keeping masculinity alive. These men can rightly be called 'masculine'.
One cannot 'build' masculinity by just examining the feminine.
Yes, that is true, but it does make it easier to divide the 'sheep from the goats'. Men that are 'sheep' are attached to the feminine and will do all they can to protect it; whereas the men that are more 'goat' like, are willing to tear femininity apart to take a look inside.
The sheep will never understand anything about Truth, because their egos are focused on extracting happiness and comfort from everyday things like; work, sport, women, mates, war, science, cars, money and creating a future for themselves. Sheep like to ask questions of themselves (when they’re not to busy doing something more interesting) like; “Who am I?â€, “What is the world really all about?â€, “Why is there so much hate and sadness in the world?â€, “Where is my life going?â€, “When will I be truly happy and satisfied?†And the one answer they come up with for all of these questions is, “Life’s a mystery, so just make the best of it.†And they do – mindlessly adding to the horrors and hardships of themselves and billions of people now, as well as innumerable people in the future. At bottom, their egos are too weak to ever be dissatisfied enough to ever honestly question themselves, or the world in which they live.
The goats have larger egos and are prepared to sacrifice their own immediate happiness and security for the chance of a life free from all turmoil, and all falsity. They often start by questioning their own existence, asking, “What am I?†Or they may start investigating the true value of traditions and beliefs. They are also not afraid to attack their own thinking; doubting their conclusions and not letting up on themselves until they’re sure they have reached ‘bed rock’ truth. These men have the potential to understand everything that was, is and will be.
Can we sketch a more defined relation between femininity, the ego, delusion, 'Maya' and the self?
Yes. The feminine is falsity – the stuff of normal life; love, hope, sadness, striving, wishing, dreaming, longing, hate, loneliness, boredom, excitement, etc. Most men and women are feminine, living in a feminine world.
And also I wonder what their function might be for life, for instinct, for survival of the human race. They might be deceptive for a mind striving to become wise, but the deception seem to do very well for the human race: six and half billion, suffering or not, can testify. Mass technology, mass consumerism made the human race spread like a plague.
“Plague†seems an apt term when describing the consequences of the herd mentality. We may have computers and space travel, but we are still burdened by hatred and suffering.
Progress is fine if it is connected to Truth, but otherwise it is just supporting and fostering all the feminine lies and nonsense that people enslave their lives to. For example; evolution is closer to the Truth than religion, but there are still billions of people on the planet that don’t know anything about it, or worse still, say that it is “just a theoryâ€. Religion, on the other hand, is doing very well due to the stupidity and laziness of the masses.
Like I said – the feminine underpins society in so many ways, it really isn’t hard to find her.
This line of thought brought me to ask finally: But, how many ignorant people would be needed to breed one genius? Is he rare by definition or because of circumstances?
In a recent post on this thread, Leyla asked a similar question. My answer to her began, “It is ‘faith’ that creates the deep chasm between the ‘world of man’ and the ‘Man of God’â€.
To drag yourself out of ignorance takes a keen mind and a strong will. Once you have a taste of wisdom, you then need a ‘leap of faith’ to take you on further. Hardly anyone ever uses their mind, will, or faith to try and understand anything about Reality – they instead like to cling to what they believe to be their nice, safe lives.
Genius is rare, because ignorance is abundant.
Sue