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   From: pi65478@gmail.com   
      
   On 2016-08-25 05:14, Tang Huyen wrote:   
   > 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:   
   >   
   > < so to speak, you understand with full conviction   
   > that you are perfect, whole and complete as   
   > you are and you don't "need" anything. this is   
   > why when ramana maharshi got a big dose of   
   > awakening he just laid down in a cave and was   
   > willing to surrender even his life to his divine   
   > acumen until villagers fed him and built him an   
   > ashram so he could teach.>>   
   >   
   > 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   
      
   Nice :)   
      
   pi   
      
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