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Post by popee on Mar 16, 2012 16:31:38 GMT
"I me mine"
I recommend that you should look into that.
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Post by withinsilence on Mar 24, 2012 13:36:39 GMT
Nice popee. Here is a website that explains how the mind works, how to become aware of your thoughts and how they deceive you or in truth we deceive our self. It is one of the best sites I've found. It is an arduous task to master the mind or at least it seems as though it is, but in reality all one is doing is letting go of all its conditioned thoughts, thus doing not doing, simply accept and allow. www.successconsciousness.com/index_00002b.htmIt is said; "all of mans problems stem from his in ability to sit quietly in a room alone" Blaise Pascal.... I can't tell you how true this is and if one ever wants to be free of suffering it will need to look deeply within itself to see its cause. Sitting in profound silence is the prescription, looking within yourself is the medicine, how do you expect to get well if you never fulfill the prescription? Find the cause, know the cure.
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Post by popee on Mar 24, 2012 15:25:07 GMT
gardening ... a most wonderful endeavor chugging along nicely
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Post by popee on Apr 20, 2012 13:08:32 GMT
I think .. "lead by example" is the best course. Living simply, doing the right things, not seeking credit ... seems to rub off on those around you.
Whereas the converse .. being a slave to imagination, perpetuating needless drama, living selfishly ... also rubs off on those around you.
So in a way .. you create your own environment. Be it a calm, blissful existence ... or a ragged, conflicted one ... you alone are the architect.
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Post by withinsilence on Apr 20, 2012 21:09:47 GMT
nicely put popee.
When one is away from source energy, they create much suffering.
The closer one gets back to source energy, the less suffering one creates.
What one gives is what one gets back, what one cast out is what he catches, this can change at any moment, all one has to do is change the bait they're casting.
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Post by popee on Apr 29, 2012 13:26:39 GMT
caught in a loop?
gently .. step aside
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Post by gurthbruins on Apr 29, 2012 16:43:24 GMT
Nice pictures for us, popee... ! Once upon a time I fell in love with trees...
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Post by popee on May 2, 2012 21:00:03 GMT
what is greed?
is there anything real and everlasting which could ever be hoarded? as for the temporary stuff ... does it even matter?
except, perhaps, for the self induced torment which comes with it
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Post by withinsilence on May 3, 2012 11:00:42 GMT
greed, like all sin, is nothing more than forgetfulness, simply missing the mark, non awareness of the unconsciousness thoughts that rule ones words and actions much like a puppet on a string except the human puppet believes it is running its own life.
Self Awareness is the master key to leave the realm of ones endless stream of unconscious thoughts.
One may be greedy for heaven or enlightenment but these are only thoughts or desires thus illusions of the underlying reality in which one already IS.
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Post by popee on May 3, 2012 13:09:00 GMT
essentially, sin is a useless word. created out of thin air by the high priests of long ago. it does not point to anything helpful, and only serves to cause confusion and self-flagellation in the minds of religious adherents.
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Post by gurthbruins on May 4, 2012 5:45:40 GMT
Agreed. There is no sin. It's an insult to the perfection of every moment. But the word obviously had to be created. Or it wouldn't have been created.
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Post by withinsilence on May 4, 2012 10:15:56 GMT
It takes a little deep inquiry into ones own thoughts, but if one will look deeply into the words within the thoughts, and then contemplates also their opposite, they begin to see a pattern of dichotomies that in reality, their whole purpose is to return one home to the middle way, to unity. Then, once having reached center and learned how to maintain that peaceful, balanced, psychological state of equanimity, one is free from the extreme realm of the minds dualities, which of coarse fulfilled its function perfectly.
Simply look at what these words are pointing to: center, balance, unity, oneness, equanimity (equal), middle, contented, peaceful, fulcrum, etc.
The more empty ones mind is, the more natural wisdom, commonsense, true intelligence and unique creativity can blossom, much like the beautiful lotus flower that grows out of the mud.
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Post by gurthbruins on May 4, 2012 16:44:28 GMT
Nicely put I think ws, a pleasure to read this.
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Post by popee on May 4, 2012 17:12:21 GMT
abandon ship
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Post by popee on May 4, 2012 19:37:44 GMT
a purposeful self inquiry
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