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   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   brian mitchell  wrote:   
   > Tang Huyen wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 11/7/2016 6:54 PM, brian mitchell wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> In your eagerness to insert a thorn you seem to have missed the point   
   >>> of the question, which was not to judge, but to understand the inner   
   >>> nature of detachment.   
   >>>   
   >>> One could similarly address the question of mindfulness: in   
   >>> mindfulness, is there a watcher and a watched? To be unobstructed,   
   >>> must not awareness be fully participatory?   
   >>   
   >> You are doing what I have warned you about many   
   >> times before, namely running a due diligence of   
   >> awareness. Just jump in with two feet, do it   
   >> straight-up and don't bother about a priori analysis   
   >> of it. It can't be done. (In Jewish mythology,   
   >> specially Catholicism, isn't it said to just believe   
   >> blindly, without understanding? That heavenly   
   >> wisdom is folly to the world?) You have   
   >> overpowering (theoretical) boogeymen about   
   >> oneness and non-duality. They lord over you and   
   >> scare you out of your wits. You have scarcely any   
   >> idea of unconcern. Just abandon your wits and be   
   >> mindful, without further ado.   
   >   
   > Is that what you do?   
      
   Sounds a bit effortful, I tend just to get progressively cheeky until   
   someone lets the answer slip and then I pounce on it and look oh-so-wise,   
   but the smirk gives me away, mostly.   
      
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