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   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   Tang wrote:   
      
   ><close down the mind? if you   
   >don't use any mind during a   
   >feeling, the feeling will just   
   >fade away.>> Jen.   
   >   
   >I freely admit that I am nowhere near there, but that   
   >is what Jen says.   
      
   I imagine you've experienced something near   
   to what might have been, in a context.   
      
   Anger, for instance, when not acted upon,   
   may close down the rational mind for a spell,   
   yet fade away.   
      
   Just as hunger, when not fed, may close down   
   various other realms or regions of thought, or   
   of awareness, or consciousness, etc.   
      
   And yet, when that feeling fades away,   
   one may find one's self, so to speak, at yet   
   another level. Within an other layer, oar above.   
      
   After forty days and forty nights, some people   
   have been known to experience great wonder.   
      
   - reports vary   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)