--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], "Llundrub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > <snip> > > > > Not that one can be out of the phenomenal realm. But rather, > > > > as you suggested Judy, the desire isn't potent enough to make > > > > it a real go. I have no doubt that someone will break through. > > > > Someone who wants to hover enough. > > > <snip> > > > > We have all been trying to create positive aspirations for > > > > the world for however many years now. And I think that > > > > aspiration superceeded the mere aspiration to just levitate. > > > > > > You know, there's no way I want to levitate > > > badly enough to spend the time day after day > > > doing program. It would be fun, and if > > > somebody were to hand it to me on a silver > > > platter, I'd take it. But in and of itself, > > > it's not all that compelling. > > > > > > Wnat I *do* want badly enough to spend the > > > time day after day doing program is to no > > > longer be overshadowed. > > > > You aren't really. Its just a trick of the mind that you believe the > > duality- that there is something external to you. Its a common trick > > of the mind by the way; everyone falls for it at some point ;) > > And some get so attached to it that they're unwilling > to give it up. The "trick of the mind" that believes it is > "overshadowed" becomes for them the ground state > of reality, and something to be "overcome," something > "real." > > IMO, this is called missing the point. It's the feeling of > being overshadowed that isn't real.
Which is why this intellectualization is useless, either for encouragement or for putting people down. All it does is push things back a level: Instead of having to overcome the reality of being overshadowed, now it's the false feeling of the reality of being overshadowed that must be overcome. 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/
