Mark Ty-Wharton wrote:
Discovering the ego before it finds you
Is there a you separate from the ego to discover the ego.
Or is the sense of an idea of an ego......the very sense of a you.
Yes - when you learn advanced mathematics you know there is no such
thing as zero yet you continue to use it in your calculations because
the language of mathematics is based on the concept of numbers
Learning, whether of mathematics, or any other thingy.......
.....is indeed a matter of progression, where previously held concepts,
as axioms are used to move forward
with the forward movement entailing, that the stepping stone is dropped.
This,(by whatever term one wishes to call)...... is not about
progressive learning in time.
Discovering adversity before it finds you.
You never meet adversity.
I would take adversity in this context to be a description of circumstance!
A description of circumstances is a cognition of the circumstances as
series of occurrences.
To which the added flavour .........making the story as "favourable" or
"adverse".
It is this sense of flavouring which is the sense of entitification.
The entity never never meets the flavour.
The sense that the content of the moment....is adverse...........is the
sense of a you.
Discovering the enemy before it finds you
Discovering old age before it finds you
Discovering death before it finds you
For the ideation that birth is a reality............for that ideation death
is indeed a reality.
Beyond the language of concepts lies the language of poets and musicians.
I read blah blah blah as la la la - try that perspective before making
him wrong - what he is saying works (for me)
Which is absolutely fine.
If it was simply the case of "what was said worked for you"........your
post would not have occurred.
:-)
But most of all, discovering who you are beyond forms and labels
Which is to see that forms/labels never had a reality to start with.
Which makes a beyond as much an ideation.
Who cares?
Cool.
Including about the very assertion.
Why do you care?
If the common goal is self-realisation try pointing more the way then :-)
Who ever or whatever gave you the impression that self realization was a
goal, let alone a common one,
and which was the ostensible aim of any of this baloney.
