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eats bugs Reged: 09/14/23 Posts: 442 Loc: lives in trees |
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Quote: You can, kinda. Someone up thread used the water metaphor. You can kinda direct the flow of the water through skillful application of effort (practice). And in applying these skillful means, start to undue the habit (karma). Imagine being such a bad chain smoker that you're literally always smoking. And because you're always smoking, you don't notice you're doing it. Choosing not to slice is like trying to quit that habit. You've just become aware that it can be done. Now you have to figure out how to get a willful animal to train its own mind how to stop the habit. Thankfully, a dude figured it out about 2500 years ago so there's some really good practices for doing it around today thanks to the efforts of about 42 generations of people. edit: Oh, and in this scenerio, almost everyone you know is also an ignorant chain smoker. -------------------- Listen to the silence behind the engines' noise. Jesus, Sweets, listen. Hear it? It's a love song. For whom? You are loved. ~ David Foster Wallace, Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way Edited by tree frog (11/29/23 07:10 PM)
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