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ZERO
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Date Posted: 09:18:58 04/28/02 Sun
In reply to:
Cassandra
's message, "My Stuff" on 23:00:25 04/27/02 Sat
Hi Cassandra, it's me, the pain in the ass! Haa.
I like your place. It has love. It is dimensionless. It is absolute, eternal. There is no individual petty person. I know where that Place is, I think many of us do. It feels like a place that you would want to be forevever.
And then you realize you have to go to work this morning, and will you get paid in time to pay the rent, and why do they keep killing each other in the middle east, and all that thinking stuff brings us down. Most westerners never get to that place at all, they are so caught up in the mind. In fact they are addicted to the mind and it's thinking, it keeps them from their own emptiness. But in the East, the escape takes another form, an escape into God, or Nirvana or the Self, escape into perfection, and complete detachment from the world. If we choose the Absolute, dimensionless non-individual place, we ignore the relative world, and discount the thinking mind. If we emerse ourselves in the mundane world and its distractions and pleasure, we never touch the Absolute.
So how about accepting both the Place and the place, the absolute and the relative world? Not as two separate disjunct things, but as a seemless synthesis, a merger, a union and Unity. A Non-Dual state that is neither the Absolute or the relative, but both.
How else can we be Divine and Human? And along with that human part comes the devil of thought. The mind will always be there. And that is what I am trying to accept. I have some fear. Fear is not a pleasant thing. It is something I wish would go away, but it won't. Yesterday, in this flash, partly because of our conversations, I realized that I can accept that fear, embrace it, live with it, own it, and hold it as me and be OK with it. I had this disjunct between me and my fear, I didn't want it. Now I see that it comes with the territory of humanness. I am even ashamed to talk about this "weakness" in myself, and I will accept that shame too. Do you know what I mean.
Our consversation just went from bad to good.
Thank you.
ZERO.
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