BardoThodol
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One of the coercive beliefs that holds Scientologists in check is this idea of relative importance. You have a gradient scale of importance, (like a gradient scale of becoming a super-being.) Because Scientology is the most important thing you can do (because it is the most pro-survival), you must eliminate all other less important things from your life. Anything else just pales in relative importance.
You get a situation where Scientologists are racing around like the White Rabbit, frantic to get where they're supposed to be going.
It's all so important.
Important.
Important.
But it's not.
And doing things that aren't "important" is not an overt or an offense to living.
The idea that what we do must be important smacks of obsessive-compulsion.
We (me my wife and two kids) just came in from sitting around the back patio, enjoying a fire in the fire pit, sometimes talking, sometimes just looking at the flowers. A blue heron flew over, noted we were there and made a huge U-turn because he wasn't going to get any fish from our ponds. We got a big laugh out of that. None of what we were doing was all that important. We didn't save a single person from ruin. We didn't take a single step towards salvaging this sector of the universe.
But, it sure was pleasant.
Ps. The implication of the OP is that our behavior here is somehow undesirable because we're not obeying some obsessive behavior pattern, thus an overt. Hmmmm. Where have I heard that one?
You get a situation where Scientologists are racing around like the White Rabbit, frantic to get where they're supposed to be going.
It's all so important.
Important.
Important.
But it's not.
And doing things that aren't "important" is not an overt or an offense to living.
The idea that what we do must be important smacks of obsessive-compulsion.
We (me my wife and two kids) just came in from sitting around the back patio, enjoying a fire in the fire pit, sometimes talking, sometimes just looking at the flowers. A blue heron flew over, noted we were there and made a huge U-turn because he wasn't going to get any fish from our ponds. We got a big laugh out of that. None of what we were doing was all that important. We didn't save a single person from ruin. We didn't take a single step towards salvaging this sector of the universe.
But, it sure was pleasant.
Ps. The implication of the OP is that our behavior here is somehow undesirable because we're not obeying some obsessive behavior pattern, thus an overt. Hmmmm. Where have I heard that one?
