Thank you for setting me straight. I feel much better.
-Peter
--- akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> To be a bit more specific Peter, your dharma cop
> role assumes most
> people are fools. It assumes all people are like
> woody allen's satire
> / characture of himself as a kid in Annie Hall. As
> you remember, the
> young 10 year old is brought to the psychiatrist by
> his mother because
> Alvie won't do anything other than stare at walls.
> Alvie explains his
> version of existential angst to the shrink, "the
> universe is
> expannding, which means one day it will explode and
> that
> will be the end of everything."
>
> Some funny responses: His mother yells, "What
> business is it of yours
> what the Universe is doing??!!" And the shrink
> explains in
> condescending tones, "Don't worry Alvie, Brooklyn is
> not expanding."
>
> Your fear appears to be that everyone is an Alvie,
> that they will be
> paralyzed into inaction if they dare recognize a
> reality that is only
> partially, though perhaps not yet eternally
> recognized. People, their
> associated reactive minds, intellects and bodies,
> are usually not that
> dull as to sink into paralysis when realizing
> conceptually, based on
> experience -- even if it is not eternal experience,
> that there is no
> doer. Or at a deeper level, there is no action.
>
> One can learn of how food is assimilated at
> chemical, quantum
> mechanical or even cosmological levels ("it doesn't
> amout to a hill of
> beans" to quote another film) and yet still the body
> contines to eat
> on the surface level. It is not shocked into
> paralysis knowing its
> just quantum soup drinking quantum soup.
>
> So your role playing dharmic high priest, telling
> people from what and
> how they should interpret the world, is ITMBO (in
> this mind/body's
> opinion) more something you are working out
> internally, and does not
> provide much useful real world guidance for others.
>
> But everyone can and will decide on their own.
> Besides, this is just
> all quantum soup made from an insignificant hill of
> beans.
>
> --- your pal alvie (still crazy, but not paralyzed,
> after all these
> years).
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --- In [email protected], akasha_108
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, I understand Peter.
> >
> > As long as you continue to comparmentalize
> wholeness into little
> > domains, and feel the need to keep tracking our
> different
> > dharmas blazing in your mind, you will continue to
> feel the need to
> > play dharma cop -- and to continue to cite people
> for your own
> > internal vision of dharmic conflicts of the One
> Eternal Dharma.
> >
> > Cite away.
> >
> > As GH said: Beware of darkness. All things must
> pass.
> >
> >
> > --- In [email protected], Peter
> Sutphen
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Watch out Akasha, you're going to get a dharma
> fine!
> > >
> > > --- akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --- In [email protected], Peter
> Sutphen
> > > >
> > > > > When I started teaching TM in 1973, National
> > > > always
> > > > > sent the correct percentage back and the
> correct
> > > > > percentage into my ATR account. That lasted
> for a
> > > > few
> > > > > years until someone sucked the ATR credit
> account
> > > > dry.
> > > > > -Peter
> > > >
> > > > Well, for the mind/body aka Peter, there was
> no
> > > > doer of the
> > > > initiations, and thus no thief claiming
> ownership of
> > > > the action, and
> > > > thus no thief claiming ownership of the ATR
> credit.
> > > >
> > > > And the blazing Brahman mind/body aka MMY, was
> not a
> > > > thief of the action
> > > > of canceling all ATR credits.
> > > >
> > > > Thus it appears nature was working on nature,
> > > > adjusting karmic account
> > > > consistent with Eternal Dharma. No thief, no
> victim,
> > > > no foul.
> > > >
> > > > So where in the Brahaman is the problem?
> > > >
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