"it is what it is in the dance of samskara"
David: correction. You mean "samsara", the conditional world. "Samskaras" are what I was talking about above....the little subconscious tendencies, patterns, and collective sense impressions built up over a lifetime (or many lifetimes, if you're into that).
Also, I disagree with you. My spiritual mythologizing of myself, for example, is quite high and always has been. Since I was twelve years old, I've been absolutely CERTAIN I'm on the brink of holy grandeur. In fact, every movement of energy or unfoldment of silence makes me gesticulate wildly like Fred Sanford, yelling "Uh-oh, this is the BIG one!" I'm fortunately of an age now where there've been so many false alarms that I can't help but laugh - hard - at myself when I do that. But I still do it. And the thing is: that's ok. It doesn't matter so long as you don't get trapped.
It doesn't matter so long as you don't get trapped. That's the perfect distillation of everything I typed above. It doesn't matter so long as you don't get trapped.
We westerners think we need to, like, FIX all our issues. No, that's the goal of psychology, not mysticism. My idiotic compulsions and knee jerk self glorification needn't be photoshopped off my cortex. It can all stay.
It can all stay.
I just need to not let that stuff drive the car. THAT'S the challenge. And it's a lot easier to read a statement like that and chuckle wisely at your grasp of the insight than it is to actually detach from an ever more intense and visceral cast of sirens and tormentors. I tow an ocean liner full of 'em, and so do you all. You don't slay them, you love them...and let them simply be.