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   From: tanghuyen@gmail.com   
      
   On 8/24/2016 4:24 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
      
   > A hint of what we don't understand:  we want mystical benefits,   
   > whatever we conceive them to be, while remaining as we are.   
      
   Again, to borrow from djinn from some years   
   ago:   
      
   <>   
      
   Many practitioners of mental culture aspire to   
   fancy mystical states or whatever, and scarcely   
   understand that mental culture is to help them   
   come to peace with themselves and reconcile   
   with themselves, so that they don't need   
   anything any more. They still have a body and   
   still need to follow physical and social laws, but   
   mystical states or whatever are frills that will   
   come on the way but that will block the way if   
   taken seriously.   
      
   Tang Huyen   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)