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Post by Peter on May 3, 2012 4:38:07 GMT -5
Thanks for elucidating Merrick. Perhaps what we're seeing there is the difference between judging the behaviour and judging the person?
Personally I don't see the heart as a reliable compass as anyone who's engaged in an affair would hopefully agree - sometimes the mind needs to remind the heart of it's long term best interests.
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Post by Peter on May 3, 2012 2:50:28 GMT -5
Sorry Peter, I don't understand your question. To restate with the full context: >>>I often tell peeps that they can't go wrong because there's no right way or wrong way to do anything. >>This is true only if ''right'' and ''wrong'' express a judgement. >How could "right" and "wrong" ever be used in a way which does not express a judgement? |
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Post by Peter on May 2, 2012 13:58:29 GMT -5
This is true only if ''right'' and ''wrong'' express a judgement. How could they fail to? |
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Post by Peter on Apr 17, 2012 2:31:43 GMT -5
We're all addicts. Total junkies for feeling good. When the typical societal way of finding permanent happiness, power, pleasure fails we turn to spirituality. We must face what we're really trying to do. We're looking for that ultimate pleasure but we can't ever keep it as long as we'd like. The total and utter futility of it all must be met head on.
There has to be a willingness to want to simply stop rather than search out the next high. The next spiritual video, the next lovely meditation session, the next flow experience. You don't stop because you know how. You stop because you see that you're totally and completely stuck. Totally out of moves. That conviction can only come from within. Even the fanciest words coming off adyashanti's mouth aren't going to help. Thank you, Silence. Nailed it. I carbon freeze Han Solo with that. |
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Post by Peter on Mar 27, 2012 8:24:07 GMT -5
Thought is never accepted, only briefly entertained. Though, 'briefly' varies widely across the board. "Is a week a long time?", my son asked. "Well that depends", I said. "If you've been told that's all you've got left to live then no, it's not. But if you're trying to hold your breath, then yes, it's a long time." |
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Post by Peter on Mar 27, 2012 7:05:45 GMT -5
Posts about cables don't challenge accepted thought, so are of no consequence.
For the same reason, the Pope doesn't issue statements about Skateboarding.
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Post by Peter on Mar 27, 2012 6:54:08 GMT -5
The name of the forum is Spiritual Teachers, but the only teaching allowed here is the teaching about Oneness... Can they? Have you tried? |
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Post by Peter on Mar 19, 2012 14:00:49 GMT -5
'course you're not.
Moving right along...
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Post by Peter on Mar 19, 2012 7:17:23 GMT -5
Well, at least you're right about that, and my wife totally agrees with you. Fortunately, I contain multitudes. ;D Zendancer, have you forgotten that right and wrong are not separate things? Lemon, I think that's what he's saying. That since all we can do is point, nothing that can be said can ever be ultimately "right". As soon as you open your mouth, right and wrong become separate things. So of course he's wrong. As are you, as am I. Few of us enjoy admitting it though, fortunately  |
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Post by Peter on Mar 19, 2012 5:32:53 GMT -5
Yes I get the songs although not noticed anything in particular. Mainly it's just on and on, it's the same tape that's been playing for years and I've had enough of listening, split mind I know. Right right. Is it the entire song you're getting, or just a couple of lines repeating over and over? Try saying the lyrics out loud slowly, and see if that brings anything up for you. |
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Post by Peter on Mar 19, 2012 3:36:59 GMT -5
Oh yeah, definitely. The mind HATES having nothing to do - it's like nature abhors a vacuum. You can imagine a hamster running around on a wheel and then suddenly trying to stop. That wheel has momentum and you end up with comedy hamster spinning - that's your head that is, hamster wheel. When I've been away on - say - a week silence retreat, I'll get songs stuck in my head for hours and hours at a time. I was reading a Jack Kornfield book - I think it was A Path With Heart where he spoke about a friend of his who spent a fortnight alone in a cabin by a stream and the sound of the water on the rocks started sounding like Star Spangled Banner or something and he eventually waded in the stream to move the rocks around to change the noise. Can you give an example of something your mind is going crazy with? Quite often if I get a song in my head, I find it useful to really think about the lyric that's being repeated. It usually yields some insight to what's going on in my life at the time and once I've worked that out, the song leaves. Anyway, good luck. |
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Post by Peter on Mar 9, 2012 11:30:46 GMT -5
'Line 1' was Arisha's statement, not mine. I showed in line 2 and 3 that her statement is wrong. OIC. That'll teach me to just read the last page of a thread. P |
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Post by Peter on Mar 9, 2012 9:40:46 GMT -5
Okay, let's do the math.
The existence of 'what is' is dependent on the existence of 'what isn't'.
'What isn't' isn't.
Therefore 'what is' doesn't exist. You went wrong in line 1, if I might correct: The existence of 'what is' is dependent on the non-existence of 'what isn't'. 'What isn't' isn't. Therefore 'what is' is. |
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hello
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Post by Peter on Mar 5, 2012 4:00:12 GMT -5
Hi CC, welcome to the board. Different perspectives eh? That would really depend on what your current perspectives are. Are you able to share them? As for a sense of direction, well really you just need to know what it is you want and head towards that. Do you know what it is that you want? I went back to read your earlier posts. You said: It sets me appartment from the "norm" I am at peace with that but I wish I had some insight as to what I am waiting for. The only place you're going to find "normal" is a programme on a washing machine. As for a feeling of waiting, I know just what you mean. Personally I'm signed up to the idea that we've been given free will. Perhaps the answer lies in a bit of soul searching - see above question of "what do you want". Is the answer: Something Other than what's happening in your life right now? Best Wishes, Peter |
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Post by Peter on Mar 1, 2012 5:07:36 GMT -5
Welcome Sushil. I looked you up in Google. I assume (since it matches what you say about yourself) that you wrote this: culturechange.org/industrial_mind.html ? You said "I am seeking help from volunteers in spreading this message far and wide." Sounds like you've got a crusade going on there. Well, voilà, that's me doing some spreading for you. I'm reading Lierre Keith's The Vegetarian Myth at the moment which is (in part) about how modern grain based farming methods are destroying the environment. There's an interesting idea in the chapter I'm currently on that various species are influencing our development as much as we influence theirs - grains produce opiate like substances (Mmm, cookies) which encourage man to propogate them. An example was given of a man walking through freezing snow to feed his chickens safe in a shed and asking himself who is serving who? Or whom, even. |
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