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   noname to Kitty P   
   Re: Silly puttys (was Re: game on) (1/2)   
   26 Oct 16 18:53:26   
   
   XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   Kitty P  wrote:   
   > "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 -   
      
   If you were qualified to understand my reply to him, you might understand   
   how to reply to me.   
      
   > it might   
   > begin to open up something that would help with the anger and suffering a   
   > bit?   
   >   
      
   Whose, yours?  Tang's?  Really, in this kind of group exchange, it might   
   pay to be specific about the basics, who, what, when and so on.  I'm not   
   angry and suffering, last I knew djinn was not angry and suffering, so that   
      
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