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   dagnabit to Kitty P   
   Re: Silly putty''s (was Re: game on) (1/   
   26 Oct 16 14:09:40   
   
   XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: meanmrmustard@gmail.com   
      
   "Kitty P"  wrote in message news:nuqeff$euq$1@dont-email.me...   
   >   
   > "noname"  wrote in message news:nuq2jj$5ma$8@dont-email.me...   
   > >   
   > > djinn  wrote:   
   > > > "Tang Huyen"  wrote in message   
   > > > news:12d646fc-fa85-9255-ca77-baf37fe7658c@gmail.com...   
   > > >>   
   > > >> On 10/25/2016 11:58 AM, dagnabit wrote:   
   > > >>   
   > > >>> if you want to identify the fake "awakeneds", and   
   > > >>> here in these groups they do seem to come and go   
   > > >>> on a regular basis,  you can read the words of   
   > > >>> christ, krishna, buddha, ramana maharshi, and   
   > > >>> nisargadatta maharaj and put aside their words   
   > > >>> and look for the commonality in the phrasing and   
   > > >>> expression, because they all have a similar way in   
   > > >>> attempting to put their state into words.   
   > > >>>   
   > > >>> one thing you can look for is any attempt at words   
   > > >>> connected to any kind of security and survival status,   
   > > >>> because when you're in that heightened state the last   
   > > >>> thing you will be concerned about is security or survival.   
   > > >>>   
   > > >>> this is, of course, just my substantially less than humble   
   > > >>> opinion and your spiritual dining and dancing mileage   
   > > >>> can indeed vary.   
   > > >>   
   > > >> In your early posts, you often talked of survival with   
   > > >> negative connotations.   
   > > >>   
   > > >> < > >> and another when all your doing is dividing its chances   
   > > >> of being anywhere near real ? Individual doership is an   
   > > >> illusion created by consciousMess in its wide array of   
   > > >> survival tactics. This is one of the Gunas, or influences   
   > > >> on behaviour.   
   > > >> The other two , as such, are said to be passion and   
   > > >> compassion. Everyone thrives on an admixture of the   
   > > >> three. These false phantom identities created by us   
   > > >> starting in infancy were piled onto the first concept,   
   > > >> " I Am". Your true nature was stung by a scorpion and   
   > > >> that scorpion is consciousMess.   
   > > >> Without these false identities compromising an ability   
   > > >> to abide in true nature, the disguises would fall and the   
   > > >> masquerade would be over.>>   
   > > >>   
   > > >> < > >> has an immense love to be. It creates many strategies   
   > > >> to ensure its survival. ConsciousMess uses every   
   > > >> avenue possible to survive including many delusions   
   > > >> fostered upon its many different expressions, some in   
   > > >> the roles of autonomous psychosomatic apparatuses   
   > > >> processing limited sense inputs. It is consciousMess'   
   > > >> desire to believe that it has the right to exist as will as   
   > > >> one of its inexhaustible supply of methods of survival.>>   
   > > >>   
   > > >> < > >> horseshit make 'lovely' bloom ? Your speculation stems   
   > > >> from a body-mind identification level and stagnates you   
   > > >> at a conceptual understanding and reasoning   
   > > >> sub-stratum. Your judgement and belief buffers are   
   > > >> fueling the emotional addictions that foster the security   
   > > >> maskings that veil your true intuitive noumenal   
   > > >> apperception.  A decentralizing and decreating of the   
   > > >> word-knowledge blinders that fog your true nature can   
   > > >> be easily accomplished by a detached affectionate   
   > > >> awareness that responds spontaneously rather than   
   > > >> reacting with thinking and emotional baggage.( how's   
   > > >> that ? )>>   
   > > >>   
   > > >> < > >> true nature is perfect, whole and complete and needs   
   > > >> nothing. Only a conceptually reasoning intellect believes   
   > > >> it can 'better deal' itself and make greater and greater   
   > > >> intellectual delicacies out of its array of judgement and   
   > > >> belief buffering.>>   
   > > >>   
   > > >> < > >> mine. How many times do I need to stress that until it   
   > > >> registers with you ? ALL shit stinks. ALL knowledge,   
   > > >> wisdom, concepts, theories, ideas, GUESSES, religions,   
   > > >> disciplines, practices, learning, etc., etc., etc., is all   
   > > >> temporary, transient, time-bound and essentially,   
   > > >> ultimately useless.   
   > > >> Your true nature is essentially perfect and has no need   
   > > >> for any of these things. You're trying to climb your way   
   > > >> out of a hole that you're not even in.>>   
   > > >>   
   > > >> < > >> infinity. Manifest consciousness has infinite possibility   
   > > >> and the Absolute has infinite possibility. If your belief   
   > > >> buffers have judged for you that I am prideful and   
   > > >> arrogant, remember that no matter what you do you will   
   > > >> retain vestiges of the hereditary and genetic momentum   
   > > >> that limits the infinite potential of manifest   
   > > >> consciousness in your appearance of individuality and   
   > > >> that 'ego' is just a result of consciousness' love to be.   
   > > >> Ego will retain shades of these results of the variances   
   > > >> manifest when consciousness devises enough survival   
   > > >> tactics in its struggle to be. In identification with the   
   > > >> manifest phenomenalities, ego's many colors are the   
   > > >> saving grace of consciousness in its quest to remain   
   > > >> conscious of itself in its many forms of expression.>>   
   > > >>   
   > > >> < > >> Only the manifest consciousness seeks itself a purpose   
   > > >> as a built in survival tactic.   
   > > >> [snip]   
   > > >> I was told all of my life by others that I had no personality   
   > > >> and I looked around at others and thought; " Goddamned   
   > > >> good thing I don't." My state is unconditioned, causeless   
   > > >> and attributeless.>>   
   > > >>   
   > > >> Tang Huyen   
   > > >   
   > > > impermanence is key. nothing survives, not even   
   > > > the universe, according to some. working towards   
   > > > survival is going against the grain of the natural   
   > > > processes in place,   
   > >   
   > > That argues against evolution doesn't it?   
   > >   
   > > > and security is never possible   
   > > > for the temporary human disguise, and the true self   
   > > > doesn't need security.   
   > > >   
   > >   
   > > The true self knows where security comes from and doesn't want the dish   
   > > because it comes with a collar.   
   > >   
   > >   
   > > email: noname.1234567.abcdef@gmail.com   
   >   
   > I think if you reread slowly what djinn wrote- maybe a few times - it   
      
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