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Unfolding Nature Shop: Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

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The Cosmic Joke
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In order to cut through the ambitious processes of ego, we must understand how we use our projections as credentials to prove our existence. The source of the effort to confirm our solidity is an uncertainty, we seek to prove our own existence by finding a reference point outside ourselves, something with which we have a relationship, something solid to feel separate from. But the whole enterprise is questionable if we really look back and back and back. Perhaps we have penetrated a gigantic hoax?

The hoax is the sense of solidity of 'I' and 'other'. This dualistic fixation comes from nothingness. In the beginning there was open space, zero, self-contained, without relationship. But in order to confirm zeroness, we must create one to prove that zero exists. But even that is not enough; we might get stuck with just one and zero. So we begin to advance , venture out and out. We create two to confirm ones existence, then we go out again and confirm two by three, three by four, and so on to infinity. This is what is called Samara, the continuous vicious cycle of confirmation of existence. One confirmation needs another confirmation needs another........

The attempt to confirm our solidity is very painful. Constantly we find ourselves suddenly slipping off the edge of a floor which has appeared to extend endlessly. Then we must attempt to save ourselves from death by immediately building an extension to the floor in order to make it appear endless again. We think we are safe on our seemingly solid floor, but then we slip off again and have to build another extension. We do not realize that the whole process is unnecessary, that we do not need a floor to stand on, that we have been building all of these floors on ground level. Their was never any danger or need for support. In fact, our occupation of extending the floor to secure our ground is a big joke, the biggest joke of all, a cosmic joke. :lol:


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All you need is Love! Really thats it! Infinite Unconditional Love! Just develop that and all else will fall into place perfectly!

Edited by egghead1 (04/04/05 05:01 AM)

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Re: The Cosmic Joke [Re: egghead1]
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child to the other: you are stupid!
other child:yes you are!

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:smile:


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Re: The Cosmic Joke [Re: egghead1]
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In order to cut through the ambitious processes of ego...

And have you cut through?


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The proof is in the pudding.

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Re: The Cosmic Joke [Re: egghead1]
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:wink:

MAIA


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Spiritual being, living a human experience ... The Shroomery Mandala



Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Voltaire

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Re: The Cosmic Joke [Re: Swami]
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This cutting through is a practice. You don't just cut through once and that's it. The processes of ego has both gross and subtle characteristics, it takes alot of time, patience,perseverance and mindfulness to be totally free from them. I see the cosmic joke in moments of clarity and insight, and in those moments i am free. Of course their are times when I'm completely  caught up in the dualistic processes of ego,  so to answer your question, No the final, complete and thorough cut is yet to come.  :wink:

Edited by egghead1 (04/01/05 03:16 PM)

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Re: The Cosmic Joke [Re: MAIA]
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Thats an entriely different kind of cosmic joke :lol:


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train station to zero G (pa russkya pravda) [Re: egghead1]
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when the kenya beanpole & the quito skyhook are up & running, i will gladly take a cablecar to a geosych upstation...
howzabout u?


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not old enough to care

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Re: The Cosmic Joke [Re: gnrm23]
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:lol: Wild Fanatasies :lol:


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Re: The Cosmic Joke [Re: egghead1]
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egghead1 said:
Thats an entriely different kind of cosmic joke :lol:


Don't laugh yet, take a look at this :wink:
http://flightprojects.msfc.nasa.gov/pdf_files/elevator.pdf

MAIA


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Spiritual being, living a human experience ... The Shroomery Mandala



Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
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Re: The Cosmic Joke [Re: egghead1]
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Wouldn't attempting to be cutting through an ego which exists for a purpose be another part of the Cosmic Joke?

I hear it referenced so often... as if it is such a bad destabilizing notion.

If an individual's eyes have the propensity to look at women's breasts all day... we most certainly don't blame it on the individual's eyes, nor do we endeavor to cut them out. The individual and thus the mind is at fault, they need to correct their view (if harmful). Perhaps we should just learn to work with it, rather then hope to eliminate it.

-I do agree with you though, that people don't need a role-model/guidline as to how they percieve themselves... but attempting to eliminate something that has existed throughout our history... is among one of the largest cosmic jokes. We might as well attempt to end all wars, in live in full equality (great ideal... but so far due to resource limitations, and ignorance, it isn't going to happen anytime soon).


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"Their is one overriding question that concerns us all: How can we get out of the fatal groove we are in, the one that is leading towards the brink?" Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
"We may not be capable of eradicating the corruption of reason, but we must nevertheless counter it at every instance and with every means." Dan Agin
"Politics is the best religion and politicians are the worst followers."
-It's ok to trip as long as you don't fall.
-Substance over Style.
-Common sense is uncommon.

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