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Post by laughter on Jul 28, 2014 21:53:24 GMT -5
This is a case where recursion is actually useful for a change because the one so distracted can only answer the question for themselves, and the most direct way to do that is to stop and ask, "what is it that finds this question interesting?". Seems to me that a direct answer in the form of a pointer ("emptiness", "this is what you are", "silence", "spaciousness", "isness", "awareness" ...) is only useful if the questioner is open, curious, and not in the mood to argue. In any case, at least they can be let in on the fact that the question has to be asked in innocence in order for it to lead to anything more than futile minding. So the spin on the loop can take the form of reflecting the question back ("inquire as to who asks it"), but these days I've seen peeps react to that as smart-ass. Another way is just to say "hey, don't ask me pal, .. .. you gotta find that out fer yerself ". I think nondualies are tired of having that question thrown at em. then they should inquire as to the nature and identity of the one that's tired!
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Post by enigma on Jul 29, 2014 0:06:09 GMT -5
I think nondualies are tired of having that question thrown at em. then they should inquire as to the nature and identity of the one that's tired! That there is what makes em go rabid.
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Post by tenka on Jul 29, 2014 1:45:58 GMT -5
When one is aware of self to being something one is suffering because of that something . That something be it 'I am' is to a degree not everything or what you are that is also nothing .. One's point of awareness say's it all . If there has been nothing realized in relation to no self then in comparisons I am is suffering always . 'I am' doesn't define you as 'something'. It just means 'I exist'. You do, in fact, exist. That you exist is not cause for suffering. I am defines an existence as I . That I is something in mind . If one is self aware of I ... Then one has concluded that I am .
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Post by enigma on Jul 29, 2014 2:44:02 GMT -5
'I am' doesn't define you as 'something'. It just means 'I exist'. You do, in fact, exist. That you exist is not cause for suffering. I am defines an existence as I . That I is something in mind . If one is self aware of I ... Then one has concluded that I am . TMT
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Post by laughter on Jul 29, 2014 13:50:57 GMT -5
then they should inquire as to the nature and identity of the one that's tired! That there is what makes em go rabid. But according to figandology, on Face Circle Mountain it don't matta' how rabid you get, right??
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Post by enigma on Jul 29, 2014 18:01:48 GMT -5
That there is what makes em go rabid. But according to figandology, on Face Circle Mountain it don't matta' how rabid you get, right?? It matters to me. Have you seen the size of those needles?!
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Post by laughter on Jul 29, 2014 20:24:17 GMT -5
wow! Talk about suffering!
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