--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > <snip> > > > > 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 ;) > > > > I know you mean it in the nicest possible way, > > but Jim, I get REALLY REALLY tired of hearing > > that kind of formulation. It isn't helpful or > > inspiring. It's my working assumption on an > > intellectual basis, but it doesn't undo the > > trick. If it did, I'd have become un-overshadowed > > many years ago. > > See? Attachment.
Yup, attachment is the trick. For those still subject to it, it has to be undone, seen through. But intellectualizing it doesn't in and of itself undo the trick. Something *else* has to happen. It's like watching Doug Henning perform his close-up magic. Intellectually you know it's a trick, but that doesn't help you see through it, because it's so well done. Something *else* has to happen for you to perceive the trick. Using Barry's formulation, one could say that you don't perceive Henning's trick because you're attached to not perceiving it. And does understanding that you are attached to not perceiving the trick help you perceive the trick? No, something *else* has to happen. You can take it back as many levels as you like, but still the bottom line is that something *else* has to happen before you see through the trick. 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/
