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The Qualities
#27552107 - 11/21/21 07:31 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Now and then I find ways of thinking in the dharma that are fruitful to my current situation. "Why am I less happy?" The threefold qualities give a clear answer - tamas (darkness, inertia), rajas (activity, middling), sattva (true happiness, divine purity).
Thus remembering, I look at my mental conditions and behaviors, and ask what are the associated qualities. What is sattva here? Only selfless acts, selfless love and service, or (effort to) being in the pure.
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Re: The Qualities [Re: syncro]
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We're just along for the ride. And the more we attach, the more we have to sorrow about. Everything is and isn't, and everything will and won't be, and eventually, all at once.
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Re: The Qualities [Re: QM33]
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Guild wars, making ones out of zeros. Searching for an inside track and mindful of the consequences
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Turning in and on..
Tuning out of chaos.
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Re: The Qualities [Re: QM33]
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QM33 said: We're just along for the ride. And the more we attach, the more we have to sorrow about. Everything is and isn't, and everything will and won't be, and eventually, all at once.
Much love to you bretha
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Re: The Qualities [Re: syncro]
#27553536 - 11/22/21 12:05 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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syncro said: Now and then I find ways of thinking in the dharma that are fruitful to my current situation. "Why am I less happy?" The threefold qualities give a clear answer - tamas (darkness, inertia), rajas (activity, middling), sattva (true happiness, divine purity).
Life is not about being happy. That is called Hedonism, and it is bullshit. Yes, you should be selfless and stuff, but you do it because it is the right thing to do. If that makes you happy, it is merely a neat side effect, not the reason for doing it.
If Hedonism is your path, here is the master plan: First, gather a lot of money. Then, inject yourself as often heroin as possible. No higher happiness than that. Your life will be utterly wasted, you will be nothing but a drag to society, yet you will be quite happy.
Life is not about being happy, it is about the ending of suffering.
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syncro said: Now and then I find ways of thinking in the dharma that are fruitful to my current situation. "Why am I less happy?" The threefold qualities give a clear answer - tamas (darkness, inertia), rajas (activity, middling), sattva (true happiness, divine purity).
Life is not about being happy. That is called Hedonism, and it is bullshit. Yes, you should be selfless and stuff, but you do it because it is the right thing to do. If that makes you happy, it is merely a neat side effect, not the reason for doing it.
If Hedonism is your path, here is the master plan: First, gather a lot of money. Then, inject yourself as often heroin as possible. No higher happiness than that. Your life will be utterly wasted, you will be nothing but a drag to society, yet you will be quite happy.
Life is not about being happy, it is about the ending of suffering.
I think it's semantical primarily. Bliss is a foundational essence in existence. Remove suffering and one couldn't help being in bliss as it is identical with pure consciousness, or emptiness.
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Re: The Qualities [Re: syncro]
#27567399 - 12/03/21 09:10 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Vexing can be over what to love, but a better question may be how to love. That love is understanding stayed with me, but better still may be love is that which frees.
In love is that which frees, it went to my third eye, a peaceful face, resting.
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Re: The Qualities [Re: syncro]
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I'm contemplating love is that which frees, the bliss and power therein, and I thought, what of this force, this longing for union? What does union have to do with freedom? It is reflected in the spiritual and in nature. Even the Zen Master sings, "Where the lights of Child and Mother merge in one."
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Re: The Qualities [Re: syncro]
#27570041 - 12/05/21 08:02 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Sattva is say, darshan, a true vision of the enlightened one, or deity, or some formless aspect, or tattva, the living principle.
In that moment, floating in unspeakable divine love, in jaw-dropping awe. In that moment, in the great flow of the Dao, if I ever can let go of myself, the great waves of bliss flowing in that which is ever still. The great hand of the infinite cuts the void and everything follows.
self-absence vs atman. let's fight! 
What suchness is left to speak of after self-absence where the zen guys won't come swinging their sticks?
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Re: The Qualities [Re: syncro]
#27570061 - 12/05/21 08:28 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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I thought of Huang Po, and said, well, Sir, yours is a dojo, and you would want students to come and spar, no? But only soft sparring with you, master. So instead, in my mind, I got a smile and a hug.
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Re: The Qualities [Re: syncro]
#27570065 - 12/05/21 08:33 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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*bliss flowing in that which is ever still.*
Chemicals in the brain, pleasures of the flesh that the dead don't share imo
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Buster_Brown said: *bliss flowing in that which is ever still.*
Chemicals in the brain, pleasures of the flesh that the dead don't share imo
This sounds as from an atheistic, not Buddhist or similar, perspective. ? That's fine.
If not then to me there must be something missing. This is my stubbornness in having one foot in the Hindu type yogas, and the other in love of Buddhist language, intrigued by the emptiness-not-atman distinction.
For they won't say it is nihilism, right? Emptiness, or Nirvana, is not nothing. There is something, that unspeakable suchness, and that, I would argue is not different from atman, or consciousness. But I know these words are loaded with all kinds counter. A common thing I think I can say is that which is without attributes.
Can consciousness or atman be without attributes? If there are attributes, then let's remove them. What is left? Is there something beyond bliss consciousness, or does it just become more subtle?
I don't care to be insistent, but enjoy the argument.
It reminds of the monk guy who ran, or was a moderator on the old e-sangha. Anyone remember that? He used to ban people for arguing the atman vs non-self stuff. rofl. I don't mean disrespect, but it tickles.
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Re: The Qualities [Re: syncro]
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From my perspective the accomplished are still around us in the flesh building more intricate designs and systems born out of knowledge. Therefore where would they live that you may serve and share their beneficence?...in the centers of design and intricacy.
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Buster_Brown said: From my perspective the accomplished are still around us in the flesh building more intricate designs and systems born out of knowledge. Therefore where would they live that you may serve and share their beneficence?...in the centers of design and intricacy.
For my clarity, are you defending the brain and the material, the Ai, tech?
I may not be addressing your thing, but does the subtle abandon the gross, or is it above it in manifestation and law?
Some have said don't rush too quickly to the sun, as if it is not inclusive, as if it does not bring all things to fruition, as if one would be missing something needed. No, it is to finally be in satiation with that which is missing. As if love and war are not reconciled. No, I will reconcile in the light of a thousand suns.
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Re: The Qualities [Re: syncro]
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For my clarity, are you defending the brain and the material, the Ai, tech?
Yes; as a novelty the human race can survive if dispersed throughout the Galaxy. To achieve that the Earth can be treated as an asteroid to be mined and abandoned.
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syncro said: I may not be addressing your thing, but does the subtle abandon the gross, or is it above it in manifestation and law?
The terminology, subtle, gross, law can be manifestations of ego with the subtle seeking to be above the gross when in fact the gross can harbor and manifest greater intellect. Novelty as an enjoyable product may then be observed in situations unregulated by ego standards of gross, subtle and law, such as the forum OTD.
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syncro said: Some have said don't rush too quickly to the sun, as if it is not inclusive...I will reconcile in the light of a thousand suns.
Okay, OTD forum is famously unwelcoming but the subtle exists for the seeker who can step aside from their ego and in this example it may be seen that the subtle is harbored in the gross.
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There are those of great intellect who yet lack understanding. Intellect as such can be a double edged sword.
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Intellect used for the good of humanity cuts one way; intellect used for the good of oneself cuts the other way.
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Not at all. Intellect used for self-refinement, improvement, is practically a prerequisite for the good of humanity.
This can be argued but I wonder if those beings never seen, somewhere in profound meditation do not benefit most of all. Not that one should not be out hugging the masses if it's in their strength and desire.
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Re: The Qualities [Re: syncro]
#27570318 - 12/05/21 12:43 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Well, thank you for the duel and perhaps the seeds of the sower will bear fruit.
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Re: The Qualities [Re: syncro]
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syncro said: Peace
and productivity
assuming the subtle is productive.
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It's an interesting question. One devotes energy according to their strength, say, solely to a liberating meditative bent, at least in the ideal. Inherent is that it also affects others, as the idea that prayer would, the entanglement. Is the meditating hermit productive? In spite of my limitations I consider it a working machine. Yet it is difficult for the ego on the outside, needless to say.
It is actually much for the ego, as in the language of Shiva's liberating grace, levels of station, so to say, according to one's desires that need to be fulfilled or otherwise completed, much less karmas.
It would be more difficult to see it as productive if only for myself, although from a point of view it shouldn't be, as a teacher said, you cannot really help others unless you are beyond the need of help yourself. But it is by the will of others as well as my own, and for the benefit of others.
It reminds of an example given by a teacher - he sees people making money, succeeding in their careers, yet without a proportional moral/spiritual advancement, the character degrades.
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Do you practice Fasting? I had the idea that Ghandi could obtain favor by fasting. Therefore a person of good character spiritual/moral could use fasting as a tool in productivity.
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It goes to the thread topic, the qualities. Doing some beneficial work like in authentic healing or advancement of tech, these would be considered rajasic, that with goodness in them, some sattva. But meditation or invocation would be considered much more sattvic. The argument would go, the more sattvic or subtle, the more powerful.
Dunno, somebody has to build the roads. We either pay them to do it while we meditate or tend to the Ai, or we do it ourselves.
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Buster_Brown said: Do you practice Fasting? I had the idea that Ghandi could obtain favor by fasting. Therefore a person of good character spiritual/moral could use fasting as a tool in productivity.
I've done some fasting for spiritual purposes, more recently for health. I don't do it now, but I think intermittent fasting is a good thing. I know some who take fasting seriously on certain days, like holy days. There is a day in the moon calendar that is considered auspicious for fasting.
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Re: The Qualities [Re: syncro]
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AnattaAtman said: I like the Buddhadust translations better ("Beggars" instead of "Monks"), even though it may be a bit controversial.
Fasting, in the sense of deprivation, might be a method of putting a rich man on the level of a beggar.
ref: rich man/ camel/ kingdom of heaven
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Not directly.
Edited by syncro (12/05/21 03:40 PM)
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Re: The Qualities [Re: syncro]
#27570781 - 12/05/21 07:51 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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It's funny that some humans are better at restraining themselves from desires then the hindu gods, LOL!
Their desires are their qualities, birth, destruction, vanity, lust, rage, etc..
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Re: The Qualities [Re: teknix]
#27570822 - 12/05/21 08:41 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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In separating the subtle from the gross we might see thru crude generalities, heh heh.
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Buster_Brown said: Fasting, in the sense of deprivation, might be a method of putting a rich man on the level of a beggar.
"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.” - Matthew 19:24
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So my theory is that Ghandi as head of state and far from deprived was able to outlast his adversaries in competition for the favors from ascended masters thru the loophole of fasting.
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Buster_Brown said: So my theory is that Ghandi as head of state and far from deprived was able to outlast his adversaries in competition for the favors from ascended masters thru the loophole of fasting.
And not just fasting: strict regulatory control of digestion - daily enemas at the ashram. And complete abstinence from any sexual desires.
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I think the handicapped and disadvantaged fit "the first will be last and the last will be first" better than adopted regimens.
Naturally then the 'Word of God' is spread to disadvantaged bushmen tribes who would otherwise follow their instincts to kill and manipulate to their advantage, imo.
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It seems it would go deeper to a science of consciousness. One lives and dies by what they think they are. Falsehood disappears, pride falls, by the sword, by the sword...
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Re: The Qualities [Re: syncro]
#27572070 - 12/07/21 04:27 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Darshan is a self-realization as the self must hold the quality of the vision, or at least receive the quality in the grace. When you see me, you will see me as I am; one must have become like him.
It is argued consciousness can only perceive its likeness, therefore all things seen must as well have the nature of consciousness. Those times when surroundings become as light within.
I'm not saying you have to believe it. Maybe more so I say it to try to remember.
You shroomies are cheaters. I mean that with humor. I go with practices and such only, and the spans can be dreadful. Shroomie types though possibly will need the chemical to continue to make the states right?
But if you can cultivate your own maybe you're sitting good. May our cultivations be successful. When good I say ABC, always be cultivating.
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Re: The Qualities [Re: syncro]
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LOL, I've been here 20 years and haven't grown a mushroom or ever tripped beyond a threshold experience, I put that down as being an extremely slow learner, so don't think that we are divided by chemical insights.
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I didn't actually think in particular that you were BB, though thoughts are welcome.
I may be misunderstanding - Are you saying you think users of psychedelics are slow learners? Because there are some profound, freakish intellects who do so, and in the use I think could have accelerated into that seeing.
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#27572099 - 12/07/21 05:55 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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I believe the meaning of life is entertainment, so no I wouldn't place any practice as deficient in the learning process that can span life-times.
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That's a good view. I think it is sattvic, as long as the entertainment is not at the expense of others or oneself. Not saying I'm great at that.
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"not being at the expense of others" leads to judgments that karmic processes in accordance with law are both unnecessary and childish and that we are better off in the long-run by being our brother's keeper, so to speak.
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Not clear to me, are you saying thoughts to avoid mistreating others leads to discounting or misunderstanding karmic process?
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Re: The Qualities [Re: syncro]
#27572221 - 12/07/21 08:43 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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If we are what we believe,

...then it is fundamental that we are subject to the consequence of perhaps existing under an oppressive authoritarian regime
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If we want to sift for a high message in it, I think it is a rebuking of not being "married" to the most high aspects, for our own welfare, for we know that engaging lower mayas leads to suffering, if for no other reason than impermanence.
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Marriage addresses the problem of jealousy amongst the masses imo which harkens back to authoritarianism.
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Or maybe in this case, the jealousy of God. And mentioned about the lower qualities of the pantheons, we can see them how we will, but to me it is not a sattvic, or pure, or a particularly useful view of God. What use is God if we don't take useful views of Him/Her? That I agree with. The qualities of the archetypes we largely paint ourselves. How we see them reflects our desire and how we can see to make use of them, or dismiss them. No judgement on not using archetypes.
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If variety is the spice of existence then we could perceive a God willing to experience vulnerability.
John 10:34 "ye are gods"
Perhaps Thuggery would blossom amongst his associates while in the vulnerable state.
As a test of allegiance this would have some value.
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Not really original but I have thought this is how universes may be created - spiritual powers rising up with aspects of desire. Increases in powers of imagination with meditative practices brings new light to the thought. Imagination is just that, however it is said creations are not different from imaginings in the nature of consciousness.
Creator intellects saying, whoops! I think that is among the reasons why Brahma got in trouble, not having temples and such in these ages. Perhaps not for creating itself, but bringing in desires about it.
Who is not enchanted and tied in to the psychic knots?
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May the light of perception forever pierce your consciousness
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Thank you. So you reveal you are a Zen person? I will read from that school.
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Re: The Qualities [Re: syncro]
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No, I was just trying to arm wrestle you.
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#27572595 - 12/07/21 03:42 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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"If this is love, I do not want it. Take it from me, please! Why does it hurt so much?"
"Because it was real."
The Battle of the Five Armies
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Ah, yes...Love, the novelty of an animal emotion that could launch a thousand ships...brain chemicals again
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The elven king Thranduil said it was real. He had become without love, absorbed in selfishness for his kingdom. He sort of came around to acknowledge love seeing it in his children, but apparently not for himself, though he appeared to shed a tear.
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Re: The Qualities [Re: syncro]
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The Light of Eärendil

Navigators on the melange spice from a world where dreadful worms can be controlled = Dune
Gollum regrets the loss of the 'spice' and perhaps the perspective of the story is the denunciation of the Light by those who prefer control thru bloodshed.
Certainly the innocent mushroom seeking Merry from the Shire rejoices in the opportunity to be a fighter.
The Dark Lord Soar-On is then God from the perspective of the thuggees.
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The light of the Two Trees, or the sun and the moon, ida and pingala. The star must also be the sushumna nadi, or the third eye where they join.
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Re: The Qualities [Re: syncro]
#27573022 - 12/07/21 10:39 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Predating spinach Popeye the mariner received his power from a magic Whifle hen. Perhaps whiffle is derived from wife and being kind to the wife brings good luck.
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There can be a difference between what I believe and reality. I'm shuffling thru associations in the dark.
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Re: The Qualities [Re: syncro]
#27573346 - 12/08/21 08:35 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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There are gods guarding the gates. My coffee and barbecue chips do not convince them. But it reminded me it's good to be in a mood of offering.
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Re: The Qualities [Re: syncro]
#27573513 - 12/08/21 11:12 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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LOL, I moved to an island to escape temptations and discovered abandoned homesites where tools lay gathering rust for decades and gathered them up to put to use fixing roads and drainage. Needlessly to say my wickedness was discovered and retorted by "Private property" to which I responded "My house is your house, what's mine is yours and if what goes around comes around then your house is my house and what's yours is mine." They were not convinced.
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Respects for your hardships.
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Re: The Qualities [Re: syncro]
#27573929 - 12/08/21 06:29 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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About offerings, the attitude of humble love or service somehow can be very moving in the energy. How does this translate to the impersonal if one is seeing that way I wondered.
What is the quality? It is of light, it is subtle, an act of tender love. I am not saying I am particularly good at it, just observing it. Also I think it is that it is one-pointed. Love is not distracted. Sincerity does not question - it is not self-conscious or it can easily override that.
I don't know why sometimes ones finds their self in the pristine. Sometimes I think it involves moon phases and planetary positions. Certainly it would seem it is due to past efforts, but why it shows when it does after long spans is baffling. Maybe biology, but it shows when I have not eaten particularly well. :shrugs:
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Re: The Qualities [Re: syncro]
#27574324 - 12/09/21 05:42 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Don’t forget about hysteresis, of a sort.
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Interesting, thanks. Lag.
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Re: The Qualities [Re: syncro]
#27576866 - 12/11/21 03:10 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Qualities are not just defined based on individual merit but by the connections of things to other things..
Thus everything as an individual is a micro of the whole thing.. hut also displays the relationship between that micro thing as a one to all of its relating squares.
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One of the gateways to liberation, holy company, the other three being self-control, self-inquiry, contentment. It is said any one of them is sufficient. The rest will be added. (Yoga Vasistha)
How they are added is interesting. What if you are alone? The practice also becomes the presence of the teacher, or your work, nature, your self becomes your holy company.
"all of its relating" That one is difficult, whiffle cake and stuff. Successful relating the strength of Popeye the Mariner.
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Re: The Qualities [Re: syncro]
#27576964 - 12/11/21 06:51 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Perchance there is a shared dream, that of bleach per se, eradicating 'back-teria', there's no walking backwards in progress. Progress then is clean without the filth gathered by the past. Perhaps there is disagreement amongst holy company and amoeba-like they split and become estranged.
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Sorry, I meant whiffle hen. lol
But I have hope for the whiffle hen, now in the season, harmony.
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Are you saying the estrangement is due to disagreement over bleaching? Things should be addressed as needed, but otherwise, let he who is without sin cast the first stone. To hope for forgiveness then, in oneself.
Edited by syncro (12/11/21 11:26 AM)
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Re: The Qualities [Re: syncro]
#27594750 - 12/26/21 07:58 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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As in the lotus posture, the spine floats unhindered, so in the prana of a ripened practice, the mind floats unhindered.
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#27594784 - 12/26/21 08:28 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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My mind can become incorrigible, but in the practice at times it becomes distant - it floats away from me in space of bliss stuff. It is amusing because it can still be going on, but from a distance I hear it without disturbance.
The prana and the mind are said to be two wings that unite for the soul to take flight in realization.
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