Re: "We" (Jonathan)

[Johnathan Barnes]

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Bob: And so, if you are attempting to be honest,
you will be open to questioning from others who
may not feel or see the absence of violence in
yourself as you do. I feel that to compare your-
self with others IS violence and causes division,
especially when your belief causes you to make
a distinction between yourself and them as
"most people but not me". I am not condemning
comparison; I am examining just how a mind that
compares itself can, at the same time, be free
of separation and isolation, both of which are
the basis of comparison, and both of which, as
the basis of comparision require projection as
"me" and "them". You consistently say that
you are free in some sense, yet you consis-
tently say that your mind operates divisively,
like "most people's" minds do. You seem to be
straddling the fence, jumping from one side to
the other when it is convenient. I am question-
ing what I feel is this unprecedented, dual ability
to be free yet bound.
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I've said I'm pretty much free from suffering and violence, which I am. I've
said I'm not free from fear, which I'm not. I think all minds work
divisively and comparatively to a certain extent - including Krishnamurti's.
It's the deep, subconscious comparisons that create the difficulties, imo.

Okay? Thanks for another vigorous discussion, Bob.

Johnathan


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