--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > <snip> > > > Ask yourself whether there might be something just a bit > > > peculiar about the concept of "a technique to enable > > > us to appreciate the Now." > > > > Yes, Judy, I am familiar with your "infinite regress" argument -- > > it just doesn't apply here, at least in any meaningful way. The > > fact is, these techniques do work, if we really feel we have a > > sincere need or desire to "grow." > > But that's yet another iteration of the regress. > "Desire to grow" and "appreciate the Now" are > mutually exclusive, not just intellectually but > experientially.
I appreciate how it could look like this intellectually, and how it is evidently your experience, but I don't find it to be the case intellectually or experientially at all. Part of the paradox, I suppose. > Each is valid on its own level, but as long as > you're doing one, you aren't doing the other. > > That's why this kind of thing has never worked > for me. I can see the appeal of this belief-system. It is nice and neat, and saves us the trouble of having to take any personal responsibility for our perceptions :-) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
