| Fri, 18 Feb 2011 | #1 |
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Well, we have read K, and we have a sufficient knowledge of his sayings.Now what to do? What is his basic theme? Is it awareness?Do we know that how to become aware?Or there is no way? What to do or not do? I don't know |
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| Fri, 18 Feb 2011 | #2 |
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Maybe . . . ask a question that you really believe in? What are you waiting for? |
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| Sat, 19 Feb 2011 | #3 |
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Hi Dhirendra, Well, if we are asking this question do you think we have to read more? |
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| Sat, 19 Feb 2011 | #4 |
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What is all this awareness about if not to build a new civilization. |
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| Sat, 19 Feb 2011 | #5 |
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Oh no, please . . . not another civilisation! Perhaps we need an uncivilisation. What are you waiting for? |
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| Sat, 19 Feb 2011 | #6 |
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What is his basic theme? Is it awareness?Do we know that how to become aware?Or there is no way? What to do or not do? hello my friend.... a few words maybe , on your questioning...
So i had to remove his views i myself accepted.without real understanding...because it was like a movie ,comfortably sitting in the armchair watching the image while i am totally safe..with some nice homemade yogurt and jam as a dessert...
His basic theme is hard to get....he went in many aspects of the all brain stuff. What to do are you asking ?
then i become vulnerable , which i already was from very young...as many people.
what to do , say you ? or not...
it always come back to what i want as my guide line in life.
a kind of permanent struggle seems to be what is going on...
At some stage , leaving childhood i turn on the calculating program for good...
Business, competition , are good i always was told...this is the only way to be happy.
i have money , some security , but i still feel this weird oppression in my belly ....i want more...what is next ? i hear a guy who talks about enlightment , freedom , beyond fear...well sounds interesting doesn't ? After material quest, i start another one....some kind of spiritual never ending happiness quest....
All that brings many thinking , but maybe not a single real change like the one i was hoping, i was hoping to get rid of this permanent discontentment ,which even my belly can feel...
then one day the obvious knocked at the door : enough ! this is when i start my third life , the first part had been childhood mainly in nature and many kids in poverty by occidental criterion of nowadays...
i see for me , i can't tell for anyone else , i can't see any other way than to live the impermanence of life, permanently aware of this fact all the time...
well dhirendra , take care of yourself... discontentment shows the wrong way , as surely as the fire in Mount Doom destroyed the master ring ! |
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| Sun, 20 Feb 2011 | #7 |
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Indeed. This is the new. This is what to do. |
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| Sun, 20 Feb 2011 | #8 |
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Yes. The need for permanency, that things go on stably forever, is born out of a sense of not being able to match the challenges of life. But if I know that I can meet any challenge of life then the impermanency is not such a daunting thing because I rest assured I can meet it at all times. Impermanency provides the necessary push to evolve, for else one would decay, wither and die. So it is a question of energy: to have the necessary energy to meet any challenge. The lack of energy is the root cause of the search for permanency. This post was last updated by Elan J. Sun, 20 Feb 2011. |
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| Sun, 20 Feb 2011 | #9 |
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Hi Daniel Nice to hear something from you. I think K used some terms, like awareness, observation etc which were/are synonymous to realization/enlightenment/truth/insight.So when he say that when you are aware you can see fact, doesn't mean that awareness is step to seeing the truth.Awareness is truth itself. I don't see any way which can make change possible.A thing(Nothing) beyond the reason! Take care and be well. I don't know |
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| Sun, 20 Feb 2011 | #10 |
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I got it this time I think Dhirendra! K's basic theme was 'You'!
Well I think this question is arising because we have not listened, looked.Is there a separate doing from listening & looking? |
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| Sun, 20 Feb 2011 | #11 |
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Hi Kapila What have I missed from his teachings, will you mention please. I don't know |
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| Sun, 20 Feb 2011 | #12 |
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Have we missed listening? |
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| Sun, 20 Feb 2011 | #13 |
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Well, we cannot 'do' because that would require an entity to act, which is the illusion of the actor. As we are presently configured, life just happens.
The 'I' is impermanent but if it can convince itself of its ability to meet any challenge in life then it can rest, assured. Impermanency creates the necessary friction for the 'I' to adapt itself, otherwise it would decay, wither and die. What are you waiting for? |
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| Sun, 20 Feb 2011 | #14 |
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Hi again, What is listening/looking? I don't know |
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| Sun, 20 Feb 2011 | #15 |
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hello dhirendra....and elan... yes, i don't either .
But again it is a question to have capacity to stay with fact..oh! really ?
Before i red anything i was naturally doing that( looking deeply at bothering facts,then solve one problem , not all the problems ) when 14 ish....it means the capacity is there , as i don't believe at all in anyone being special , we just fail to use what we have in us for some reasons . My last child is 6 now..i call him : mini me !! and the forecasting of his end put me down to my knees ,it was impossible to deal with that , the animal brain in action , but even when i say : animal brain in action ! does not help at all , what can help here ,what can modified the hurt ? the pain of this life which is going to take the life of this child at some stage... is this a curse ? with no way out of it ?
i could not take that into account , refusing it....this was just not possible for me, this is where i got lucky....
all that happens nearly instantly , like i stay ,see and relief happens..
See the point here,before i have been clever,i have analyzed, got much of brain functioning, but i remain the very same if not worse...
K said, we never ask impossible question..
there is the life of surviving at any cost including lies , violence ,despair and the all shebang .
Again i say here for me there is the need to reach the limits of thinking capacities, of will , which is going for once to let it go , sorrow the catalyst will provide what is needed for this second birth..
the point so far in what i live is to "be" in the condition to live with facts...whatever they are.... At a practical level,to give some idea , i never accepted any authority but was deeply incline to cooperate on some programs only..this brought consequences like the refusal to stay as a soldier when army was compulsory., they had to sack me..
the refusal of anyone at me too , including big strong guy ...capable to smashed me with one hand...i never used physical violence , but was using the energy of anger created by the fact to be impose on by someone...so what i mean here is that to stay with facts , at any level , technical ,or non technical and personal only , personal/global too , implies immediate action or reaction.
It is like a bird which is leaving the nest for the first time...it is a pretty big event leaving some security for no security...it is leaving the already written scenario of what my life will/should be for some unwritten story...
Up to the relief by staying with whatever is , i say i need and want so will act on it...now...the energy will come from the sorrow which i have to say is just unbearable and does not have a glimpse of meaning, so the intelligence which has awakened says : no suffering and will go into all that.
going beyond suffering was the buddha 3rd noble truth...nirvana is the understanding so going beyond suffering...
take care dhirendra...
discontentment shows the wrong way , as surely as the fire in Mount Doom destroyed the master ring ! This post was last updated by paul mohaddhib (account deleted) Sun, 20 Feb 2011. |
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| Sun, 20 Feb 2011 | #16 |
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Hi again Thank you for reply. I try to see the point, of doing nothing.Personally I am in this mode, of doing nothing. Take care.:) I don't know |
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| Sun, 20 Feb 2011 | #17 |
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I try to see the point, of doing nothing.Personally I am in this mode, of doing nothing.. dhirendra without going through suffering , nothing may never happen..
but if so the need to jump into it is obvious. doing nothing means for me here : not using will and a goal to reach and so to look deeply...it is not a situation where all is turned off, but rather a situation where by using what hurts me , i am for once capable not to take my ideal world into account , into the picture...it implies another capacity usually asleep to enter into the picture..... sometimes i wonder if it speaks, not too sure..
discontentment shows the wrong way , as surely as the fire in Mount Doom destroyed the master ring ! This post was last updated by paul mohaddhib (account deleted) Sun, 20 Feb 2011. |
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| Sun, 20 Feb 2011 | #18 |
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not me again !!!! well i read and read that , awareness is truth itself you say...
then the schizo brain enters into action (schizo from Greek ,meaning divided from the real ), and like when the flame burns my hand so i remove it, when the so called psychological hurt is at me, i remove ....wait what am i trying to remove ?
At this very moment the dividing schizo brain has done its setting job ,dividing so using psychologically the same process which may save the body from the flames. After some careful examination , i see a link between my attempt to remove some facts from the scene( or run away from ) and the psychological hurt . A superficial thinking , childish thinking as not succeeded to remove the fact i want to remove , and this has created pain which create more running away, more pain and so on.
i guess that awareness is truth then , as to stick with that fact for example produces a change by bringing relief and something more i don't try to describe. why does it bring relief ?
and i leave that..now... Dan... discontentment shows the wrong way , as surely as the fire in Mount Doom destroyed the master ring ! This post was last updated by paul mohaddhib (account deleted) Sun, 20 Feb 2011. |
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| Mon, 21 Feb 2011 | #19 |
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That may be, although permanency is the non-fact. The fate of the psychological/fictional 'I' in this hypothetical situation is inconsequential. Impermanency being the fact, this is what one needs to deal with. The psychological/fictional 'I' may convince itself, that is fine. Ultimately it is the fate of the biological entity that matters. A healthy organism doesn't convince itself of anything. By virtue of its health, it welcomes challenges and readies itself for them. That is all. If the challenge is not faced adequately, it will die, else it live on. |
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| Mon, 21 Feb 2011 | #20 |
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Hi Paul, Yes, the body is dying a little every single day, getting closer to its final end. As I see it, the consciousness of the parent is the starting point of the consciousness in his offsprings. If the parent grows in intelligence, so does the child. In that way, the fate of the child is tied to that of the parent, even more so than biologically. Of course, there may be a so-called mutation in consciousness at some point where the child questions the intelligence of his parents and goes beyond. This is evolution. I am not sure what you mean by the animal brain. It seems negative, while for me this is quite the opposite. To me, wild animals are exactly the state of wholeness. And because we are not wild humans, we suffer. Of course, each species is whole in its own way, according to its own capacity and place in the ecosystem. Humans have certain unique capacities, especially in the brain and the resulting ability to make tools (physical and/or abstract), that creates complexities. This post was last updated by Elan J. Mon, 21 Feb 2011. |
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| Mon, 21 Feb 2011 | #21 |
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Well Dhirendra it's looking without the past interfering. I am reminded of something K said.It's in 'On Conflict', page 88 I think.He was referring to those who go from teacher to teacher.He asks whether that is to be open.And he says it is a sieve with many holes!Nothing is retained! In the sense nothing is understood.I tried telling that to a person studying diverse gurus and let me tell you Dhirendra, I thought he was going to assault me!! Now don't get hurt please. This is not an insult.Is this happening to us Dhirendra? What is the reason then? K once told somewhere about sharpening the instrument.That is the brain.I don't know where to find the quotation.But he said it.He said this instrument is not sharp enough and was talking about sharpening the instrument.Is that the reason?Is the brain simply blunt? He said to look at our habits.Release the energy wasted in habits.Do we have habits? That is things which we cannot be without? Addicted to something or other.It can be cricket or anything.Is it making the brain incapable of seeing? We do just anything and expect to understand when we read K? Is that possible? Without releasing the energy wasted in habits is understanding possible?The knife may be too blunt to cut. What do you think Dhirendra? Have we done our home work or we don't want to because its too pleasurable and we don't want to be disturbed? Is it that? Or is it that we do not think habits make the brain dull? |
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| Mon, 21 Feb 2011 | #22 |
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hello...Elan.. yes the wild animal seem whole , if i was an Indian shaman i would say : under the protection , guidance of Mother Nature... we are animals ,i guess , well in itself is it so important ?
But i am wrong , well i insist to say i always refused , authority , so to impose , business, army , money, competition,value given to people, this world is not my world , i refuse it from quite young like 10 years old...neither the one of my girl friend, we have a natural talent for cooperation , and here too we are far from being the only ones, but here to focus more on brain activities i remain with the same inner problem of course , so i travel into the animal brain or analytical brain, or child brain, or...whatever name suits and see.
remain the animal brain which sees life through its set up program...if i take a plane and can see huge cities , i see this brain...if i watch an engine, a computer i see it too...if i see war too, computer too , space ships, TV, science, modern medicine , big pharma , pollution , the destruction of species and so on...
still proud at the surface , we say : we are just incredible!
..when not caught in some fantasy like organized religions ,we crave for wealth , possession and so on...but when nothing apparently goes on , it is not much better...at least the gossiping will provide some activities....all activities put me as the man who knows , who is right, when the entire universe is turning around my little person, you multiply that by 6 billions and we have our world...
this is as simple as in the matrix...
anyone with some talent he has nothing to do with , says : i am better so i deserve more, then we have this world....and some seek enlightment, spiritual quest is born ...some seek huge money, are never ever satisfied ...
then i may start differently , but if i am not capable to be disturb, there never will be some inner discovery , but still the same craving for a shelter. what if such a shelter is just a dream, nothing else..
take care .
discontentment shows the wrong way , as surely as the fire in Mount Doom destroyed the master ring ! This post was last updated by paul mohaddhib (account deleted) Mon, 21 Feb 2011. |
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| Mon, 21 Feb 2011 | #23 |
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So, is it possible for us to look without past? Every attempt is thought, every decision to look is thought.
It is impossible thing for me to get hurt on k forums, just impossible, so don't worry, never.
I think you are taking the teaching as practice and improvement.First making brain sharp and then it will conceive the understanding,It is wrong interpretation of teaching.According to K you start from freedom, it is not like this that by doing this or that you reach to freedom or change. If we can't start from freedom, then our all sharpening is of no use. And fact is, we can't start from freedom.I don't know If I conveyed it. I don't know This post was last updated by dhirendra singh Mon, 21 Feb 2011. |
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| Mon, 21 Feb 2011 | #24 |
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Hi Dan Yes, we are our mechanic, but mostly untrained, so rather repairing gear box we remove clutch plate, then break drums and so on:) just joking! Dan, analytic brain is a gift, and I think it's highest quality is, that it can know it's limitation, it can know that it can't know anything which is not thought/sensory things.Now is it full stop to analytic brain in other field? As K said somewhere, thought itself must deny itself.Probably It's the only thing which a thought can do, but I doubt if it ever do this. Be well. I don't know |
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| Mon, 21 Feb 2011 | #25 |
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yes, my case...too..not to forget the fuel of course !
i say so , then why is it interesting to know limitations ?
we can see that even in its field which is technical purpose from lit the fire of course to much more, science and bla bla bla...there are huge problems , as violence is in life, 2 people meet thinking how am i going to cheat you ? depressing time is around too, and all negatives aspect you know of course..culminating in wars so mass murders... i don't think it is possible to start a journey on analytical brain kind of awareness without watching the all world as it is...not on purpose but it includes that too.
i agree with you about it can know its limitation...not casually .
i say yes , but it is always turned on , and as you say down below
yes...
put with my words, to open another capacity within analytical brain ,or in what i call so far the other brain, this point i am not sure about one or the other and don't try to know as it works anyway . the ultimate limit to recognize it is a bit dumb and a pain creator in some fields , then accepting not to trust itself.
When the analytical brain said : enough of all that, is a moment when it leaves the leadership and accept to be in total insecurity as it does not know what is going to happen, and even if something is going to happen....
The tendency of analyses is to come back in total control , as a need to work on anything, it is a machine set up for it....no freedom in such a life , but routine and no meaning and analysing goes back to its normal job .
I see more a permanent type of knowing what is going on.
So far i say like those native Indian , ( i met one of their shaman) would say about mother nature and the dreams and all that ,mother nature talks, says , indicate,take care and so on. we need to admit the wrong way and i still insist to say 100 % wrong , because a normal life misses the blessing point of all that matter of being part of mother nature..whatever the nature of mother nature is.....
enjoy the day dhirendra. Dan.....baldy eagle feather.... discontentment shows the wrong way , as surely as the fire in Mount Doom destroyed the master ring ! This post was last updated by paul mohaddhib (account deleted) Mon, 21 Feb 2011. |
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| Mon, 21 Feb 2011 | #26 |
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and then what..somehow i/we got a little clue about sorrow in the staying with it of my/our own manner.
what is perceived is some less bothering/painful stuff than sorrow like this one with this craving to do anything for no reason and many other disturbances , you know this no capacity to stay still...which maybe annoying ...
Dan. discontentment shows the wrong way , as surely as the fire in Mount Doom destroyed the master ring ! |
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| Mon, 21 Feb 2011 | #27 |
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Dear Dhirendra, 'Well, we have read K, and we have a sufficient knowledge of his sayings.Now what to do? m: Knowledge of his teaching, as mere knowledge, is of course already conditioned/dead, right? Now, when asking 'what to do', isn't this another question coming from the same knowledge/conditioning? Listen to that question again. "What to do or not do?" -With regards to what, about what, Dhirendra? Can you see how the question is already carrying the seed of duality, thought, in itself? Can it be seen there is nothing there real in the first place to do or not do something about, as far as conditioned knowledge is concerned? |
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| Mon, 21 Feb 2011 | #28 |
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Hi friend Nothing to do at all.Am I conditioned? Then will i remain so? Or can I change?Or no change? I don't know |
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| Mon, 21 Feb 2011 | #29 |
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Hi Dan In me, I am still in wrong turn.Don't know what is right turn, or no turn.my life is insane.I live wrongly.I don't feel burning need of change, of ending the `wrong turn. I think I am finished, can't help humanity.Here it is midnight, and it is dark midnight in me. This is the way I am. Take care, Dan the man, be well I don't know |
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| Tue, 22 Feb 2011 | #30 |
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I do not know just what it is that I am like. I wander about concealed and wrapped in thought. When the first born of Order came to me, I won a share of this speech.
We are watching, not waiting, not expecting anything to happen but watching without end. JK |
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