The Advantages (and Potential Disadvantages) of Action/Grace. Grace as Dynamism/Action/Continuous Integration and Fully Integrating Spirituality/Consciousness

Grace is continuous integration. Continuous. That is continuous as in never stopping….continuous integration and the integrative process. 
All of the world’s major wisdom traditions speak of and and stress oneness,  Buddhism and Hinduism tend to stress the inner oneness, although action was also a part of their traditions mostly in their martial arts/warrior aspect of life/culture. Christianity’s Grace/Trinity-Unity paradigm actually tends to stress the doingness/becomingness aspect of oneness and this is the primary reason why the West stressed and became more technologically advanced in comparison to the East’s contemplativeness.  Now there are certain inventions in the East  that preceded such in the West such as gun powder. This was primarily in China whose Confucianism is heavily pragmatic and so it tends to be somewhat more integrative with the action aspect of oneness.  However, overall  the tendency is inner contemplation/oneness in the East, outer action in the West. The West of course in over stressing action often suffers from that imbalance with a neglect/loss of  spiritual awareness/sensitivity.
If the West would thoroughly re-examine its actual advantage in the Trinity-Unity paradigm it could have a great rebirth of spiritual advance while retaining its heritage of technological innovation as well. Integrating the inner/static/beingness and outer/action/beomingness aspects of spirituality/consciousness is the highest, most comprehensive and likely the final level as it integrates Action itself which is an essential aspect of Grace, probably its most misunderstood, neglected and/or unknown aspect, and finally creates its distinction from Love as Grace is Love….in action. 

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