The Chalice of Wisdom - Part 1

I was going to bluntly say " yes this is true too Rasa" :)
But I carefully listened to that word " commonsense " .
Does it imply that would be a sense we would all share in common ?
To me this is contrary to Consciousness's growth .
Our experience on this plane is a very subjective one .
We all relate to events in a different way .
It has become "commonsense" that if you don't eat you'll die for example yet the Breatharians are showing us living on prana is possible and that the ingestion
of solid food is'nt necessary at all .
It is "commonsense" in this world to say we will all die one day.
Yet spiritual masters remind us time and again we are the eternal .
It is "commonsense" to say that if you don't eat meat your diet is unbalanced and yet vegetarians
have proven they can strive in a healthy body without meat .
It is "commonsense" that when someone is ill with the flu you should'nt go near them or hug them
because you'll catch the illness . Yet I hug everyone that has a cold or flu and never caught it myself in return..
It is common sense that if you burn yourself on a stove you will feel pain and be left with a mark .
Yet in my own experience the times I did burn myself that way I calmy confronted the hurt area sending
love and peace to it and I would feel no pain at all .
You see the list can go on and on ... "commonsense" in a way is putting a belief there and push it forward
so others will adhere to it too rather than let people think of their own
and maybe find they will come with a totally different answer .

I love the following story that shows how the mind can clutter the natural flow that Consciousness is:

Muddy Road

Tanzan and Ekido were once travelling together down a muddy road. A heavy rain was still falling.

Coming around a bend, they met a lovely girl in a silk kimono and sash, unable to cross the intersection.

"Come on, girl," said Tanzan at once. Lifting her in his arms, he carried her over the mud.

Ekido did not speak again until that night when they reached a lodging temple. Then he no longer could restrain himself. "We monks don't do near females," he told Tanzan, "especially not young and lovely ones. It is dangerous. Why did you do that?"

"I left the girl there," said Tanzan. "Are you still carrying her?"

Love from me
mudra