--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > I didn't say what you think I did above. > > > > > > I was trying to point out the assumption you seem > > > to be making. You feel, based on your own experience, > > > that you are not "running the show." > > > > YES > > > > > Therefore, you > > > assume that someone/something else is. > > > > WRONG, thats your confusion > > > > > I'm suggesting > > > that there is no show, and never was. :-) > > > > Nice, but I was just talking about my experience. My experience is > > that with this recognition of not being in charge comes a total > > acceptance of all that is, with no possibilty for regrets. > > And no responsibility for one's own actions and > decisions, because you didn't really do them or > make them, right?
Exactly, you got it. > For a philosophy based on the idea that there is > no self, it seems awfully self-serving. :-) Self-sufficient actually. But it is not so much a philosophy or an instruction for action as you wrongly assume. That hasn't been proposed. Its actually a recognition of the workings of your own mind, that it is not really in 'your' hands, the 'you' being actually a product of the same brain. This recognition will lead to a certain attitude towards you past and future. If such a philososphy is taken by anyone to give free licence to some unwholesome action, then it is only taken as a justification for a decission that has already been taken in the very ordinary ego-based way, and in a way was inevitable as well (as the personality was already ego based) > But you're welcome to it if it floats your boat. I guess there is simply no choice. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/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/
