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   From: SpiritOfGodTheLordGodOmnipotent@HereAndNow.Net   
      
   On 11/7/2016 8:21 PM, noname wrote:   
   > Ray Of Heaven the Son of Man the Faithful & True   
   > wrote:   
   >> On 11/7/2016 7:03 PM, noname wrote:   
   >>> dagnabit wrote:   
   >>>> "Ray Of Heaven the Son of Man the Faithful & True" wrote in message   
   >>>> news:nvqo31$5k2$1@dont-email.me...   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> On 11/7/2016 2:00 PM, dagnabit wrote:   
   >>>>>> "noname" wrote in message news:nvqaga$ic1$5@dont-email.me...   
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   >>>>>>> dagnabit wrote:   
   >>>>>>>> "noname" wrote in message news:nvpo7a$frl$1@dont-email.me...   
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   >>>>>>>>> dagnabit wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>> "noname" wrote in message news:nvo4ho$542$1@dont-email.me...   
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   >>>>>>>>>>> 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   
      
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