It does take stand. All that I am saying is that nobody can predict/decide what the ego will be/is standing for. The field of 'interest' of the ego changes like the weather. Sent via BlackBerry from Vodafone
-----Original Message----- From: Mark Ty-Wharton <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:21:42 To: [email protected]<[email protected]> Cc: Advaita<[email protected]> Subject: Re: I am the decider Ego must take a stand for something or you would still be in daipers... Sent from an iPhone On 21 Jun 2010, at 10:09, [email protected] wrote: > Of course the same unpredictability is valid for the negation 'I am > not the decider'. > Therefore I think the 'enlightened' attitude towards all that > arises, stays (as a conviction or belief) and disappears and/or gets > substituted by other stuff which would also 'stay' fixed for an > unpredictable amount of time, is the absence of preference towards > what is there at the moment. > Of course a certain attitude also arises, stays and disappears > (spontaneously) so at the end all that I can say is bla bla bla... > As always. > > Ps. The conclusion of almost any discussion about enlightenment and > other related stuff finishes with a big boooooo or blaaaaa. > > Ps2 seems like I am quoting Kuber > : ) > > > Sent via BlackBerry from Vodafone > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:55:03 > To: Advaita<[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > Subject: I am the decider > > I have no way of controlling the flow of thoughts. I have no way of > controlling how will my body react to a certain thought aka which > thought will cause a certain (re)action of the body. > I can just 'watch' what's happening. > Do you think the feeling 'I am the decider' to be just one of the > things (a belief maybe) that sometimes arises and 'stays' for a > certain unpredictable amount of time, just like any other shit? > Sent via BlackBerry from Vodafone
