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Yes, of course. But I keep forgetting. I find that when I'm in touch with the stillness, then I'm able to be with the sullied, the whatever, just let it be, and a feeling of peaceful neutrality allows "me" to watch it all happening. "Muddy a…
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First, let me say how sorry I am for your loss. The loss of a mother is like no other. But what a beautiful way to go: to be ready and to surrender; to contentedly go home. To have a chance to tell family members what she wishes for them and t…
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I'm not Carl but here goes. I don't think one needs to "break the intellect" or "stop thinking" to experience a broader sense of reality. Someone said "hearts gotta beat; brains gotta think"; it's the nature of our brain to think. Let it be. …
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If I am to be detached, should I be attached to detachment? In my experience, when I am able to let go of attachment to something (even or especially my own thoughts), there is a great opening and the pushes and pulls of desire fall away in th…
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I think it's true that if we "did not attach to pleasures" we could avoid suffering. That's the point. It's the clinging that causes the suffering. Even in joy there is suffering (if we cling to it) because we know the joy will end. The more int…
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The word "belief" doesn't resound with me either. And yet it's so hard for me to conceive of anything I can't name, in my head, that is. My thinking is dependent on language and so belief is dependent on language. But maybe that's a narrow view…
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Are you drawing a distinction between "speaking" and "talking"? No, I wasn't. I was just trying to say that we can trump any post on this board by saying "what you are saying (or thinking) is not The Tao because 'The way that can be spoken is…
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It's all a big conundrum. The Buddha taught letting go of attachment to end suffering. Not for any other reason I'm aware of, i.e., suffering/bad, pleasure/good. If you are you okay with suffering, then go ahead and stay attached. But if you're…
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Yeah, we know that but we're just talking.
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Again something of left and right brain activity there. Just one thought. I've been reading The Way of Zen by Alan Watts and he uses an analogy that struck me. Maybe you've read it already, but here goes. He uses the example of focused and …
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I see this as more an issue of how we always are looking for ways to make life ‘better’. I was trying to get at that by saying "you need a chair." Needing furniture only increases desire. But denying yourself comfort is not getting at th…
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I went on a watermelon fast once, and another time on the Muktananda 7 day cleansing diet (only steamed vegetables, period). I had heard there were many beneficial effects and I wanted to drop some pounds. But then I learned that after WWII it was…
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I try to think less, and just stay aware. That's what meditation is, except there's no "trying." When you can watch your thoughts and let them pass, you come to realize how insubstantial most thought is. Then you become less jerked around by…
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I stepped right in that one, didn't I? There's nothing wild or natural about my house dogs. They have been sucked into our human civilization and they are glad of it! I once took my 2 labs camping and were they ever bummed out! It was cold and r…
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The degree varies widely between individuals though genetic variability, and has little to do with circumstances. This is so true! I noticed it first in my husband...when he didn't have my drinking to worry about because I quit, he started wo…
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Most of your questions are beyond my knowledge. Carl? Having been born a human, I have a lot of experience with fear! I think everyone is scared but some people don't talk about it. I've found that, yes, by feeling the fear, which is facing it…
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Same subject. I was sweeping the floor and thought it might be helpful to recommend that you take up Tai Chi or a marshal art. That could be the key to feeling unity between your body, mind, and spirit. I was thinking, I sure didn't feel integra…
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I feel as if my spiritual body has surpassed my mental and physical bodies. Just one thought. In my experience, mind, body and spirit are all connected, or all one. On a experiential level, its like I can sink my mind down and feel spirit or…
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We empathize with the murdered Jews and recoil at that slaughter, yet have no problem wiping out millions of mosquitoes, cows, chickens, rats, fish. I guess if I were a mosquito, cow, chicken, rat or fish I would be just as horrified. I notic…
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I searched on "morality" and found: http://www.centertao.org/viewtopic.php?t=319 and http://www.centertao.org/viewtopic.php?t=312 These 2 quotes from Carl answer my question about an awakened Hitler: Following the way is simply being…
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Riverwolf, my first impression of Taoism was exactly the same as yours. Here is one "religion" that is above reproach. It starts out saying that what it says cannot be said. You phrased it a lot better than that. We tend to only see that whic…
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We all have a little Hitler and a little Buddha within. Which gets expressed when, and to what degree? The easy answer has always been that it’s a matter of ‘free choice’. That way we can judge people as responsible for what they do and dea…
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People are both the same and different. The differences are more on the surface; for the sameness, you have to look more deeply. I love the recent post from NowSeeker where she says she has become biased towards seeing sameness. Perhaps my pend…
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Interesting and amusing observations, Riverwolf. I see America as always looking to the outside of themselves for everything: self-validation, self-esteem, happiness, contentment...whatever they can get for the money. America is addicted to mor…
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On questions per se: I see those driven by curiosity You are a very curious fellow (curiouser and curiouser, as Alice said). I am curious how you came to be that way. Were you born that way? Was it a life experience that turned you that way…
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Humanity's difficulty arises from how our thinking mind takes this natural bias and exaggerates it. We more than exaggerate it. We take what we perceive and our conceptions about what we perceive and make that our solid, dense, real reality. …
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Yeah! I'm an American and interested in finding the quick fix! Plus that's a lot to read. Actually, I did see that 60 minutes but I was doing the dinner dishes during that segment. But I saw another study about 2 years ago that said that Mexic…
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I am convinced it's all the fish they eat and their satisfaction is biological. All those omega 3's have gone to their brains. That's a lot more credible to me than that there is some kind of national good attitude toward expectations.
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Maybe I am building a confused web to further validate my sense of self In my opinion, you hit the nail on the head there. Our sense of self (ego) finds meditation threatening and so it can devise ways to make its presence known or even stren…
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I can relate to that, Mister. When I first started doing watercolor I said to my husband "I have 900 bad watercolors to get out of the way, so just bear with me." It turned out only to be around 90 till I got one I liked a little , so I felt prett…