XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   Ummmmmmm wrote about:   
      
   > ... the difference between us. What to you is 'wishful thinking', to   
   >me is a simple fact. I know that in this respect I'm no different from   
   >anyone else.   
      
   You were born as you were born, where you were born, as a fact.   
      
   > We're all born with everything we need in order to be   
   >happy, balanced, at ease in the world.   
      
   Some are born rich, some poor.   
   Some have light skin, some dark.   
      
   Some children are born and are happy.   
      
   Some are born within mental states, depression; physical disease,   
   seizures, all sorts of maladies, as a matter of fact.   
      
   Such is the real world.   
      
   >Society knocks us off balance, so we'll submit to being slaves & cogs in   
   >the machine.   
      
   I never submitted to being a slave, you are speaking for yourself.   
      
   >The Master offers us a chance to reconnect with our inner gyroscope.   
      
   If your living Master touched your heart and opened that chakra   
   then that is a blessing you have received.   
      
   If she had touched some other chakra and opened that,   
   then you would see things in some other way.   
      
   Ram Dass is a good example.   
      
   If you see that what you call, The Master,   
   is the same living Master inside every one who is born,   
   and does not need to be physically present,   
   then you see that.   
      
   If you don't, can't, or won't, then that's that.   
      
   When you use the word, we,   
   or the word, us, you are generalizaing.   
      
   If you can see that, you can.   
   If you don't, can't or won't, that's that.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)