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   dagnabit to All   
   Re: No support (was Re: From on high) (1   
   06 Nov 16 17:46:07   
   
   XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: meanmrmustard@gmail.com   
      
   "Ray Of Heaven the Son of Man the Faithful & True"  wrote in message   
   news:nvobga$teo$1@dont-email.me...   
   >   
   > On 11/6/2016 5:39 PM, dagnabit wrote:   
   > > "noname"  wrote in message news:nvo4ho$542$1@dont-email.me...   
   > >>   
   > >> dagnabit  wrote:   
   > >> > "Tang Huyen"  wrote in message   
   > >> > news:6623017b-35e1-7321-9055-a40c13163a0f@gmail.com...   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >> On 11/6/2016 9:14 AM, dagnabit wrote:   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >>> that certainly does seem to be what god appears as,   
   > >> >>> yet if there is an understanding that as "we" made a   
   > >> >>> descent into grosser and grosser forms of physical   
   > >> >>> density until we came to this glob of protoplasm, our   
   > >> >>> perspective falls dwell specific to that density and the   
   > >> >>> levels of lesser and lesser density may only seem to be   
   > >> >>> a reverie of sorts and dripping with glossy attributes and   
   > >> >>> nowhere near our current comfort zone levels of negotiation,   
   > >> >>> so god may seem aloof when it is just that he is non-local   
   > >> >>> and non-linear and cannot sufficiently act in a grosser arena   
   > >> >>> of expression like the one that we enjoy. or, maybe not.   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >> Very sorry, Jen chérie, as I have said a few times lately, I   
   > >> >> often fail to understand you, specially early in your descent   
   > >> >> into grosser forms on Buddhist Usenet in 2002.   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >> People kept asking me what I meant (and what Buddhism   
   > >> >> meant) in the famous expression: "unsupported thought",   
   > >> >> "un-established mind". (Those are two common translations   
   > >> >> for one single expression in Indo-Aryan dialects). I struggled   
   > >> >> to explain, but then it dawned on me that you often used a   
   > >> >> close equivalent in your inimitable English: "dwell specific",   
   > >> >> which relates to the same basic meaning of "stay", "stand",   
   > >> >> "remain", "stick to", "hang on to", etc.   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >> < >> >> relying on an appearance of individualisms in order to   
   > >> >> extrapolate a clarity of focus which is dwell specific cohesive   
   > >> >> to any particular agenda, or there can be a similar negotiation   
   > >> >> due to the arena of what is seen as interconnectedness. one   
   > >> >> doesn't appear to be anymore auspicious than the other   
   > >> >> though. as long as what might be termed "depth of focus"   
   > >> >> ensues then a deepening clarity can persist in contrast to   
   > >> >> what gurdjieff called the sleepwalking public.>>   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >> < >> >> zone that dwells specific to the momentum of the trajectory   
   > >> >> of a given perspective, there can be a natural tendency to   
   > >> >> resist anything that hasn't been completely explored   
   > >> >> throughout the filtering schema of the comfort zone itself. this   
   > >> >> enhances the stagnation of the trajectory momentum agenda   
   > >> >> and can effectively hold the comfort zone in check when it   
   > >> >> originally was formulated by the momentum instead of its   
   > >> >> stagnation.>>   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >> < >> >> causality and eternal subsequent consequence to a less than   
   > >> >> contrived frequency, dissolved at least a dozen universes due   
   > >> >> to dwell specific resonant drift, and held the vibrational   
   > >> >> confinement of inter-sub-ratio aspect determinisms to their   
   > >> >> least frequent usual-ness, and yet no one even blinks.>>   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >> < >> >> collective one. where one allows a dwell specific point of   
   > >> >> focus to gravitate is purely arbitrary. has anyone convinced   
   > >> >> you that you need to see things from either view, or any other   
   > >> >> admixtural combination of the two? and if you think that your   
   > >> >> larger self, as you coin it, could be tunnel visioned by human   
   > >> >> qualities such as anger, you may wish to dig a little deeper. or   
   > >> >> maybe not.>>   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >> So, what the "unsupported thought", "un-established mind"   
   > >> >> means is a thought/mind that refrains from dwelling specific to   
   > >> >> anything, itself included. It floats along with what happens, in   
   > >> >> raft attention, but does not hang on to, or resist, any bit of it.   
   > >> >> What happens is allowed to happen (and not blocked out), and   
   > >> >> treated as clouds passing in the sky or water sliding off a duck's   
   > >> >> back. Samsara comes, fine, Nirvana comes, fine, they make no   
   > >> >> difference to it. It takes all kinds.   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >> Thank you again, Jen chérie, for your felicitous language.   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >> Tang Huyen   
   > >> >   
   > >> > oddly enough, for those who don't understand it,   
   > >> > it's pretty much useless because they can't grasp   
   > >> > its meaning, and for those that do understand it, it's   
   > >> > pretty much useless because they are already there.   
   > >> >   
   > >> >   
   > >> >   
   > >> >   
   > >>   
   > >> At least it shows poor Tang how he is supposed to think if he wishes to   
   > >> grow up big and awakened, unfortunately there might be too much rebel   
   > >> in   
   > >> the mix to permit him to comply with what is externally imposed and   
   > >> it's   
   > >> all been a waste of time.  Or he awakens, and it's all been a waste of   
   > >> time.  It's ours to waste, as the wasteland testifies.   
   > >   
   > > I agree that it's all a waste of time, the entire reality,   
   > > since no amount of masquerade via the human disguise   
   > > can tarnish one's real self, as such.  the real you, the   
   > > one that buddha, christ and krishna knew about, cannot   
   > > be changed or affected in any way by any temporary   
   > > human disguise.   
   >   
   > I prefer the term the creators of "Banshee" used for that Real-Self the   
   > boundless omnipotent courage and confidence in the salvation of all   
   > numberless beings from the cycle of suffering and death   
   >   
   > http://tinyurl.com/TheThunderMan   
   >   
   > (And that also explains the dream I had with Thor being a close friend)   
      
   the only trouble with that is trying to   
   word it so that it all fits into a fortune   
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