--- In [email protected], "Llundrub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <<snip>> > The traditional reason that God has not been sold is that that prevents the poor from buying and therefore crushes hope. To develop this attitute that all that's needed is the high bid to participate further pushes people down, it also further reinforces the egoic notion of control of life. Command the laws of nature. Why, when you cannot command even your wife or kids, or get your car to turn over on a cold morning. What is there to command actually? Ones owndamnself is all. And one can't even command that. One gets zits, one feels angry, one agonizes over details, one comes out of samadhi on thoughts.
------------ Never thought about the "crushing of hope" - very interesting angle. And the notion of 'control' points out the high strangeness that is felt when the witness is clear and all else seems to go on just as it did before - zits and all. (But there isn't so much anger at the car!) (VBG) JohnY To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
