Re: [FairfieldLife] Belief (was Re: Asuras and Avataras)

Thu, 28 Apr 2005 09:04:36 -0700

You know, back when I spent lots of time in the domes as an MIU student, with basically nothing to do but daydream for hours before and after meds, I used to extrapolate all my wishes and desires until they were totally unbounded. For instance, maybe I wanted 30 bucks for rasayanas, then I would want 90 bucks for 3 bottles, then I would want 1,000 bucks so I would never run out, and then I would go on until I was #1 head honcho of Ayurveda and didn't have to even worry about rasayanas, and so on until I realized that nothing has any meaning without boundaries.  A river without boundaries is a waterfall. But the boundaries still give the waterfall meaning. You get the point I guess. It's the boundaries which give meaning to and which perfect things.  Especially the unbounded. Without boundaries the unbounded is totally meaningless. Geese fly an arrow wedge through the sky.  What did that mean? Nothing, because it was too unbounded to have any significance. If significance was found it was found in implied boundaries. For instance, the wedge shape is the A at the base moving to the g at the tip and then the ni is the flow through the sky and therefore the whole thing was a symbol of the mechanics of creation through self referral goosing. But that was soome boundary implicated by the mind to bring meaning to something basically meaningless.
 
Life really is meaningless. The only absolute answer to why is because. Reverse implication is still implication. A good zen koaner can make stew out of shoelaces.
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Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 10:32 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Belief (was Re: Asuras and Avataras)

Peter Sutphen wrote:
> Patrick, have you read [Byron Katie's]
> new book? I've got to stop
> in a bookstore and take a look.

I haven't read it. I'm not sure that I will! I'd
love to see her live, though. Unfortunately,
her book tour has few East Coast stops, and
none I can see near me.

I "read" her first book by listening to it on
tape, twice. It was incredibly moving to hear
her working through the four questions with
the widow whose husband left everything to
another woman, or with the woman who, as
a 9-year-old girl, had been penetrated by her
adoptive father.

One shortcut I've been taking lately is to skip
the questions and go straight to the turnaround:
"My wife *should* be nagging me. I *should* be
blowing off work." It's funny how such a trick can
snap me into accepting the present (sometimes).

Back to the subject of realizing the perfection of
what is: Years ago I had a chum who took seminars
with one Dennis Adams. (www.dennisadamsseminars.com)
He came back from the seminar enjoying everything,
saying, "It's perfect." He got the wrong order at a
restaurant and said, "It's perfect." Apparently that
was a key insight to be gained from the seminars.

Anyone here done a Dennis Adams seminar?

- Patrick Gillam

> > > Tom T writes;
> > >
> > > The awake knows that the fullness and
> > > wholeness of creation is structuring every
> > > moment perfectly.  No judgement to have
> > > it different and no ability to have any
> > > judgement it should be different than it
> > > is.  No beliefs, no judgements, no suffering
> >
> > Patrick Gillam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > This makes sense because I can do the work of
> > Byron Katie to demonstrate the rightness of the
> > present situation for myself. I don't have to
> > believe anyone! All I have to do is question the beliefs
> > that make some situation "wrong," and my perspective
> > changes.





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