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   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   Tang Huyen  wrote:   
   > On 9/10/2016 11:38 AM, brian mitchell wrote:   
   >   
   >> And rain is water that falls from the sky.   
   >>   
   >> I think we can go a little deeper into things than that.   
   >   
   > And grace is benediction that falls from God.   
      
   One might need a certain religious bent to see it that way.   
      
   > Or it can be self-induced by dint of the human   
   > psyche, given its patterns which are mostly   
   > predictable even if never fully predictable.   
      
   The patterns have been known for millennia but only a few have taken them   
   and actually run off the cliff with nothing else to support them.  Learning   
   the map does not teach the territory or how to cross it.   
      
   > It consists in coming to terms with oneself   
   > and one's lot (moira), to reconcile oneself   
   > with oneself, in closed circle, so that one's   
   > lot becomes, not a burden, but a blessing, in   
   > disguise or not. It occurs when one accepts,   
   > and does not when one resists.   
      
   Pretty good description imo, it's the total absolute acceptance of whatever   
   you have unknowingly chosen as your fate that frees you from your karmic   
   debt; not by magically cancelling it, but by paying it, willingly accepting   
   whatever type of ass-thumping you've stupidly earned for yourself,   
   sight-unseen, and if you survive that, consistently and constantly staying   
   the hell out of debt/obligation.   
      
   > That is as   
   > deep as I can go. (All the usual disclaimers ...)   
   >   
   > Tang Huyen   
   >   
   >   
      
   Consider yourself slapped with a wet fish.   
      
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