XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   Tang Huyen  wrote:   
   > On 9/13/2016 2:00 AM, noname wrote:   
   >   
   >> Stand wherever you like.  Do whatever you like.  Know that the world can't   
   >> be fooled by someone who fools himself.   
   >   
   > Pretty good there, noname dear.   
   >   
   > Have you ever had any inkling that it might apply   
   > back to you? I have scarcely detected any glimmer   
   > of self-reflection in you, even less self-criticality.   
   > Please correct me if I am wrong.   
   >   
   > Tang Huyen   
   >   
      
   You are wrong.  Sorry to put it that way, but "incorrect" doesn't seem   
   right, and my word-finder is bored.   
      
   It isn't that I am humble, or even that I lack in arrogance, but that I   
   accept my own stupidity when the world shows it to me, which is quite   
   often.  If every time my thinker attempted to lure me into fantasy it was   
   required that I stopped and wrote it down, I'd spend my whole life sitting   
   writing things down.  Sometimes usenet feels like that, but then it's   
   different than a mere notebook.   
      
   However, even though my thoughts attempt to go wrong ten times for every   
   step I take, the steps lead to the next thing.  And that is quite fine with   
   me.  It isn't much, but it is something, and the more steps one takes the   
   fewer remain, before or after.  Mastery of desire does not require the   
   eradication of desire, only its inability to choose on behalf of the   
   individual, which might be a good definition of slavery in general.   
      
   People talk about "enlightenment" or "awakening" as though it was something   
   magical, when it is no more magical than the rest of the world.  Some   
   people may even seem to get smarter after awakening, not because they are   
   any more intelligent, or their brain works faster, but because it has less   
   work to do, it is no longer necessary to figure out every little thing   
   because every little thing fits with everything else without contradiction.   
    That everything fits in with everything else might be one reasons for the   
   silly grins.   
      
   There's plenty of reflection even in a black hole, the way things get   
   sucked into it speaks realms about them.   
      
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