The Hero’s Journey... Joseph Campbell # 4

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Speaker 0 (0s): Wow. 

Speaker 1 (22s): I love you guys. What better way to start off the day than with a positive, beautiful message. You know what that message is? What is your message? My message to you is that this is where you're supposed to be. I know sometimes it doesn't seem like it. I know sometimes you feel, or you think what the hell is going on. Why does this always happen to me? Well, it doesn't always happen. But if you asked a stupid question, where do you get? 

You know what you get, look, here's what you gotta know right now. You are probably influencing people that you don't even know right now. You could be making changes in the lives of people that could be eternally grateful for you. Maybe you're doing something right now. Maybe you're setting an example or your paving a road or your beginning of a project. Something that's going to inspire someone later down the line. 

What's important to understand is that your doing what your supposed to be doing? I know it's weird to think about. I know it's difficult to think about, however, understand that life has a plan for you understand. There's a bigger picture, understand that you are the way you know yourself now is not how the way you now know yourself is not the final form of you're being hi. 

Got it. It took me awhile to think about that. I got a little tongue tied there, so excuse my, my little bit of a rant. However, I just couldn't seem to figure out that little part, understand that who you are now is not the final form of who you will be. It's powerful. It's powerful. Welcome back, everybody. 

Welcome back to the true life philosophy podcast. I guess what? I got good news. I'm on the Amazon music. Now, if you're just searched true life, all capitals where you search my name, George Monte on Amazon music. Cow will be right there. And if you leave comments, then you'll be right there with me. And just so you know, you're always there with me. I keep you right here, right? Your next to my heart. Cause I love you. 

Alright. I know. What's your thinking. Hey, we take it easy. What? The mushy stuff, George, we got to get all mushy on me now. Right? All right. All right. All right. I'm with you. Let's talk more about life Journey and the hero's journey, your journey. I think we left off yesterday with the idea that all life is suffering. That's what the Buddha said. 

And so let us jump right back in with both feet and talk to our spiritual guide are our mythological narrator, mr. Joseph Campbell. So mr. Campbell, mr. Campbell, what can you tell us about the young person who says I didn't choose to be born? My mother and father made that choice for me. 

You can't pick your parents. Joseph Campbell Freud tells us to blame our parents' for all of the shortcomings of our life. And Mark's tells us to blame the upperclass of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself. That's the helpful thing about the Indian idea of karma is your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself, but what about chance? 

A drunken driver turns the corner and hit you pal. That isn't your fault. You haven't done that to yourself. Joseph Campbell, from that point of view, is there anything in your life that did not occur as by a chance, there is a matter of being able to accept chance. The ultimate backing of life is chance. The chance that your parents met, for example, chance, or what might seem to be chance is the means through which life is realized. 

The problem is not to blame or explain, but to handle the life that arises. Another war has been declared somewhere and you were drafted into an army and there go five or six years of your life with a whole new set of chance events. The best advice is to take it all as if it had been your intention with that, you evoke the participation of your will in all these journeys with mythology, there's a place where everyone wishes to find out the Buddhists talk have Nirvana. 

And Jesus talks as a piece of the mansion with many rooms is that typical of the hero's journey, that there's a place to find Joseph Campbell, the place to find is within yourself. I learned a little about this in athletics. The athlete who is in top form has a quiet place with in himself. And it's around this somehow that is action occurs. If he's all out there and in the action field, he will not be performing properly. 

My wife as a dancer, and she tells me that this is true in dance as well. There's a center of quietness within which has to be known and held. If you lose that Centre, your intention and begin to fall apart. The Buddhist Nirvana is a center of peace. Have this kind of Buddhism is a psychological religion. It starts with the psychological problem of suffering. All life is sorrowful. 

There is however, an escape from sorrow. The escape is Nirvana, which is a state of mind or consciousness, not a place somewhere like heaven is right here in the midst of the turmoil of life. It is the state you find when you are no longer driven to live by compelling desires, fears, and social commitments. When you have found your center of freedom and can act by choice out of that voluntary action out of this center is the action of the Bodhisattva's joyful participation in the sorrow of the world. 

You were not grabbed because you have released yourself from the grabbers of fear, lust, and duties. These are the rulers of the world. There is an instructive Tibetan, Buddhist painting in which the so called wheel of becoming is represented in monasteries. This painting would not appear inside the cluster, but on the outer wall, what has shown is the mind's image of the world. When still cut in the grip of the fear of the Lord death, six realms of being are represented as spokes of the ever revolving wheel. 

One is of animal life, another of human life, another of the gods and heaven, and the fourth of the soul's being punished in hell of a fifth realm is have the belligerent demon's and tiger gods or Titan's. And the sixth finally is have the hungry ghosts, the souls of those in whose love for others, there was attachment clinging and expectation, the ghost, heavy normous, ravenous, Belize, and pinpoint mouths. 

However, in the midst of each of these realms, there is a Buddha signifying. The possibility of release and illumination in the hub of the wheel are three symbolic beasts, a pig, a caulk, and a serpent. These were the powers that keep the wheel revolving, ignorance, desire, and malice. And then finally the rim of the wheel represents the bounding horizon of anyone's consciousness, who was moved by the try out of powers, have the hub and held on the grip of the fear of death in the center surrounding the hub. 

And what are known as these three poisons are souls, descending in darkness and others ascending to illumination. What is the illumination? Joseph Campbell? The illumination is the recognition of the radiance of one eternity through all things. Whether in the vision of time, these things are judged as good or as eval to come to this, you must release yourself completely from desiring the goods of this world and fearing their loss. 

Judge, not that you be not judged. We read in the words of Jesus. If the doors of perception were cleansed, Road Blake man would see everything as it is infinite. It's a heavy trip. Is this really just for Saint's and monk...