--- In [email protected], "Llundrub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ---A person shooting an arrow aiming for the bullseye who misses, is a failure regardless of path. That my meaning, in the most conventional sense. I get tired of semantics. I get alot of it here. It's all like pizza with all the toppings. Sometimes I just want some plain pepperoni. Buddhism is no cop out. Quite the opposite. > **** Semantics as a study of meaning I think Buddhists do a lot. Could be useful for you too. A person who feels himself to be a failure, because of lack in some skill, is identifying himself with action. When the I doesn't identify with some idealized picture of oneself as a doer, it gets established to nothingness, where it is totally stable and untouched by fruits of action. In other words the I am' ness (self) has to differentiate from the I as an organizing function, that is doing mistakes and learning from them. When this differentiation has not happened, the self (I am' ness) is vulnerable in the heavy swell of life and also the I as organizing function can have more difficulties in learning and making calm and honest observations. Irmeli 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/
