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"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”

[silver]

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[eputkonen]

[silver]

I have PMS - what a joy

[zin]

(the 'Work' here is Gurdjieff work but imo it may be about any spiritual work)

"The reconciling character of the Work is always present, whether in efforts or in receiving help. It is usually hidden, but it serves to connect the movements of affirmation and receptivity. The Work is essentially to do with freedom and is therefore always unexpected and felt as mysterious. In our immediate experience, we can all have a taste of this freedom when we work for the sake of work without any external cause or pressure and independently of the forces at work in our own minds. ...

All action that is truly now belongs to the Work; also all experience in which what was separate becomes united without a disappearance of distinctions. A singer realizes a perfect note, two people encounter each other because they have for a moment become empty of themselves, a negative emotion is transmuted into a particle of being by a conscious breath -- in this is the stuff of the Work." JG Bennett

[silver]

From "Training this mind" by Ajahn Chah:

"Training this mind... actually there's nothing much to this mind. It's simply radiant in and of itself. It's naturally peaceful. Why the mind doesn't feel peaceful right now is because it gets lost in its own moods. There's nothing to mind itself. It simply abides in its natural state, that's all. That sometimes the mind feels peaceful and other times not peaceful is because it has been tricked by these moods..."

www.ajahnchah.org/book/Training_this_Mind1.php

[silver]

Sogyal Rinpoche:

"Thoughts are like clouds. Even though the clouds sometimes seem to cover the entire sky, if you take a plane you can go beyond them into a vast space that is never even touched by the clouds. The clouds of our ordinary thoughts are just temporary and changing, whilst the deeper nature of our mind is unchanging, like the infinite space of the sky."

sogyalrinpoche.org/videos/finding-your-balance-with-the-sky-like-nature-of-mind

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"It Happened To Me: I Started Referring To Myself In Third Person And Now I Am Enlightened" -- NYT Opinion

[eputkonen]

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"Context is the enemy of idiots." - Scott Adams

[eputkonen]

Dec 3, 2017 17:36:36 GMT -5 silver said:

I have PMS - what a joy

[silver]

Greetings eputkonen.
My 'quote' was intended to be more tongue-in-cheek in nature, and not a grousing, complaining tone.
I appreciate what you were saying in the video, totally. Thing is, when you live long enough, there will be more mileage under your belt, and some of that mileage will include more serious scares. It can and probably will make you look at things in a whole different way, and not so much Pollyannaish...if you know what I mean. Fwiw.

[eputkonen]

Dec 22, 2017 14:31:26 GMT -5 silver said:

Greetings eputkonen.
My 'quote' was intended to be more tongue-in-cheek in nature, and not a grousing, complaining tone.
I appreciate what you were saying in the video, totally. Thing is, when you live long enough, there will be more mileage under your belt, and some of that mileage will include more serious scares. It can and probably will make you look at things in a whole different way, and not so much Pollyannaish...if you know what I mean. Fwiw.

Such is your viewpoint...and hence your suffering (i.e. dukkha).

I could die tonight content and happy...after no longer fearing death, what more serious scares are there?

[silver]

Dec 22, 2017 16:26:52 GMT -5 eputkonen said:

Dec 22, 2017 14:31:26 GMT -5 silver said:

Greetings eputkonen.
My 'quote' was intended to be more tongue-in-cheek in nature, and not a grousing, complaining tone.
I appreciate what you were saying in the video, totally. Thing is, when you live long enough, there will be more mileage under your belt, and some of that mileage will include more serious scares. It can and probably will make you look at things in a whole different way, and not so much Pollyannaish...if you know what I mean. Fwiw.

Such is your viewpoint...and hence your suffering (i.e. dukkha).

I could die tonight content and happy...after no longer fearing death, what more serious scares are there?

Everybody suffers - your vid proves that much at least.  Are you trying to say you don't suffer?  I'm not sure what you're really trying to say here.  It is a good point- dying "tonight content and happy...after no longer fearing death..."  When did or does that 'after' no longer fearing death part enter?  Does it enter twice or what?  

[ouroboros]

Dec 22, 2017 16:26:52 GMT -5 eputkonen said:

Dec 22, 2017 14:31:26 GMT -5 silver said:

Greetings eputkonen.
My 'quote' was intended to be more tongue-in-cheek in nature, and not a grousing, complaining tone.
I appreciate what you were saying in the video, totally. Thing is, when you live long enough, there will be more mileage under your belt, and some of that mileage will include more serious scares. It can and probably will make you look at things in a whole different way, and not so much Pollyannaish...if you know what I mean. Fwiw.

Such is your viewpoint...and hence your suffering (i.e. dukkha).

I could die tonight content and happy...after no longer fearing death, what more serious scares are there?

I really liked the video, and had no issue with it. I found it insightful, and such contentment is truly a wonderful thing to behold.


But, seeing as you've mentioned dukkha…

That death is dukkha, as will be the subsequent rebirth, it's samsaric - a round which in its entirety is subject to the entire mass of stress and suffering, and which will continue in perpetuity, until such time as true liberation from samsara is apprehended. Which incidentally comes through the cessation of ignorance.

"And what is ignorance? Not knowing about dukkha, not knowing about the origin of dukkha, not knowing about the cessation of dukkha, not knowing about the way leading to the cessation of dukkha — this is called ignorance."

No room for complacency.