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   XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy   
   From: daletx@gnusguy.com   
      
   Keynes wrote:   
   > On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:46:23 +0800, bi cycle  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 14/08/2010 12:41 AM, oxtail wrote:   
   >>> Jigme Dorje wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On Aug 13, 11:59 am, oxtail  wrote:   
   >>>>> Jigme Dorje wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> "Awakening" of course is only a word, and is usually used as one of   
   >>>>>> those words people say to make an artificial goal, and to invent   
   >>>>>> excuses to push it further away from them into the future. In fact,   
   >>>>>> it is right here and now.  We may all experience glimpses of it. It   
   >>>>>> really isn't anything so special; it's quite ordinary, not   
   >>>>>> melodramatic in the least.   
   >>>>>> But neither is it superficial, part of the horizontal experience of   
   >>>>>> life. It is part of the vertical experience, that of depth, and so it   
   >>>>>> can only be experienced when one is wearied of the horizontal. When   
   >>>>>> you are thoroughly tired of suffering, of the charade that life can   
   >>>>>> bring you satisfaction on the level of surface, you will experience   
   >>>>>> the "big bang," or its opposite, the big implosion into emptiness.   
   >>>>> I have to agree with Tang   
   >>>>> that you are not there yet.   
   >>>>> But you do appear to have practiced   
   >>>>> talking to yourself a lot.   
   >>>>> Do you work with koans?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>> Your practice changes. It becomes more direct.   
   >>>   
   >>> Hopefully from soliloquy to public cases.   
   >>>   
   >> like public sex?   
   >   
   > It certainly attracts interest.   
      
   I think one reason sex is so popular, is because it's centrally located.   
      
   DT   
      
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