AW: Holy Indifference or Wholly Indifferent.

[Guest guest]

Dear Tony,

 

your post ties in with an inscription I have seen in the Frankfurt zoo.

Quoting Nobel-prize winning biologist Konrad Lorenz, it says, "The missing

link between ape and man is... we."

 

All the best,

 

Michael

 

> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----

> Von: Tony O'Clery [aoclery]

> Gesendet: Saturday, October 13, 2001 22:51

> An:

> Betreff: Holy Indifference or Wholly Indifferent.

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>

> Namaste All, IMO,

>

> Holy Indifference means the observation of events with compassion

> without emotional involvement. It does not preclude aiding and helping

> people in distress or carrying out one's duty or dharma.

>

> It can be anyone from a monk to a soldier. For example a soldier in

> battle, who does his job with detachment doesn't attract bad karma.

> However if he becomes personally involved like writing things on bombs

> or enjoying killing then he is guilty.

>

> Holy Indifference involves Ahimsa to man and beast. These usually

> means vegeterianism and only using violence in defence. Not pro-active

> or pre-emptively.

>

> This tends to divide the human race into different levels, animal

> human, aspiring human, human, 'Divine' human.

>

> There is a reason why most humans only use a small percentage of their

> brain power. That is because most were not originally aspiring humans,

> or humans but in fact were animals, primates and hominids.

>

> Without going into too much scripture, it is recorded in Genesis 6,

> and Bhagavata, that advanced souls,(Kumaras), descended and became

> Adamic Man.

>

> So there were different levels of humans on the planet for millions of

> years. However sometime prior to about 9,000 BCE, there was a

> depopulating of the planet. To fill the gap, mixture people and

> hominids were somewhat genetically engineered to 'create', an

> exploitable population.

>

> This I believe is the reason why most people are wholly indifferent to

> the suffering of animals, and even humans, hence bombing,wars and

> other atrocities. Most humans are animal humans and don't need most of

> their brain power, intelligence has nothing to do with it, only levels

> of awareness in the intellect.

>

> The opportunity to become human lies in developing holy indifference

> and spirituality, particularly non violence, which includes not

> killing animals. If awareness is not developed then one is still a

> human animal, intelligent or not.........ONS..Tony.

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