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   From: tanghuyen@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/14/2016 7:53 AM, dagnabit wrote:   
      
   > when one gets a good enough glimpse of that pristine   
   > state, as ramana maharshi called it, one wants to run   
   > out and tell the whole world about it because it is easy   
   > to see that most don't recognize it yet there is no basis   
   > for communicating it and it just becomes pure frustration   
   > to try to tell others about it.   
   >   
   > once when I was excitedly trying to tell others about it   
   > I went hoarse and couldn't even speak for a couple of   
   > days. it lifts all fear and concerns from your perspective.   
   > I'd dare say that when you are deeply held by this state   
   > you might even stand there and let Lee Dillon's red truck   
   > run you down.   
      
   Thank you, Jen chérie, for enriching my (rather forlorn) life.   
      
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   That is what I have repeatedly harped on, the unsupported   
   consciousness, the baseless thought/mind. It does not mean   
   that one blocks out all sensation, affect and thought, but it   
   means that one does not carve what comes to one (including   
   sensation, affect and thought and all else) into bits and does   
   not go on jags on the basis of the results of such carvings,   
   however abstract (like justice or beauty) or concrete (like   
   this chair, that cat). One simply gives assent to it (accepts it),   
   such as it is (at this stage there is no "is not", or even "is"),   
   and that is it, without further ado.   
      
   Unless I am wrong, which is most probable, that is all there is   
   to mental culture.   
      
   Tang Huyen   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)