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Post by zendancer on Apr 28, 2011 16:36:19 GMT -5
By not resisting and pretending that everything is ok, you are in fact condoning it. If your fine living an illusion, go for it! I am not. Non-resistance to "what is" implies nothing about either pretension or condonement. Some people don;t know what's happening, some people ignore what's happening, some people sock away silver and gold, and some people look for extremely undervalued inflation-resistant assets (because its fun, fascinating, often exciting, and potentially highly profitable). I fall into the fourth category, but that's only because that's my role in the script. From my perspective, win or lose its a win-win situation. LOL My daughter once said, "Dad, you can't lose. If the markets go up, you're happy, but if the markets go down, you're also happy. I look at the entire situation probabilistically and take actions based upon what seems most likely to happen given both the macroeconomic and microeconomic environments. Its all a mystery, and the fun lies in playing the game and seeing what will happen. Win or lose, "what is" rules! Cheers. |
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Post by karen on Apr 29, 2011 8:36:32 GMT -5
I have a hunch the country might be in better shape if our president was required to be Canadian.
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Post by therealfake on Apr 29, 2011 9:58:45 GMT -5
By not resisting and pretending that everything is ok, you are in fact condoning it. If your fine living an illusion, go for it! I am not. Non-resistance to "what is" implies nothing about either pretension or condonement. Some people don;t know what's happening, some people ignore what's happening, some people sock away silver and gold, and some people look for extremely undervalued inflation-resistant assets (because its fun, fascinating, often exciting, and potentially highly profitable). I fall into the fourth category, but that's only because that's my role in the script. From my perspective, win or lose its a win-win situation. LOL My daughter once said, "Dad, you can't lose. If the markets go up, you're happy, but if the markets go down, you're also happy. I look at the entire situation probabilistically and take actions based upon what seems most likely to happen given both the macroeconomic and microeconomic environments. Its all a mystery, and the fun lies in playing the game and seeing what will happen. Win or lose, "what is" rules! Cheers. What we are and what we do, are not one and the same... One is steady and eternal, the other constantly changes. If profit and loss are non-dualistic, then the idea of being fun or not fun is also non-dualistic. How much effort should a person devote to non-dualistic activities if ultimately they are meaningless. Wouldn't the time wasted be better spent on the subject discovering itself? |
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Post by karen on Apr 29, 2011 10:31:41 GMT -5
Would it?
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Post by therealfake on Apr 29, 2011 11:16:24 GMT -5
Wouldn't it?
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Post by karen on Apr 29, 2011 11:56:52 GMT -5
With me it seems so.  |
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Post by therealfake on Apr 29, 2011 12:12:22 GMT -5
Ahh, good, I'm glad your not one of the multitude, of 'what is' profiteers... |
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Post by someNOTHING! on Apr 29, 2011 12:16:15 GMT -5
What we are and what we do, are not one and the same... One is steady and eternal, the other constantly changes. If profit and loss are non-dualistic, then the idea of being fun or not fun is also non-dualistic. How much effort should a person devote to non-dualistic activities if ultimately they are meaningless. Wouldn't the time wasted be better spent on the subject discovering itself? Ahhh yes, where does the time go? And what can a subject do? |
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Post by karen on Apr 29, 2011 12:34:38 GMT -5
Ahh, good, I'm glad your not one of the multitude, of 'what is' profiteers... Not sure what you are referring to. Unless you mean by what is is. Which of course is.  Was that what you were referring to? |
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Post by therealfake on Apr 29, 2011 12:48:15 GMT -5
No, I was referring to something unconsciously insidious, regarding the whole spiritual game in general. Most likely a result of trying to think through the smoking Buddha koan from a previous thread. I guess more or less stemming from a personnel premise, that 'what is' can creatively be changed into another what is, then another and another... Attesting to it's shelf life... |
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Post by zendancer on Apr 30, 2011 7:15:49 GMT -5
"Changing "what is;" now that's funny!
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Post by therealfake on Apr 30, 2011 8:30:39 GMT -5
What's funny is peeps who make wrong choices and justify it, by saying 'that's what is'.
It's an unconscious or sometimes conscious hypocrisy, as old as time itself, by those smoking Buddha's of every orthodox religion or spiritual belief.
It may be a source of comfort or righteousness, I don't know, to act like baffoons, you know, destroying the environment, ripping people off, causing pain to others and then brushing it off, as if they had no part in it at all....
That's what's really funny.
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Was that what you were referring to?