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   noname to dagnabit   
   Re: Silly putty''s (was Re: game on) (1/   
   26 Oct 16 21:11:58   
   
   XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   dagnabit  wrote:   
   > "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   
   >> might begin to open up something that would help with the anger and   
   >> suffering a bit?   
   >   
   > due to the ways that comfort zones are initiated,   
   > any such zone that dwells specific to the momentum   
   > of the trajectory of a given perspective, there can be   
      
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