> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> <snip>
>> I was listening to Eckhart Tolle yesterday (Silence Speaks) and he was
>> saying that any thought is a viewpoint, and how liberating it is to
>> realize that. It's like a small segment of a wide spectrum. Other
>> segments, even contradictory and paradoxical ones, are equally valid.
>> So its true that if we take our thoughts too seriously, we're
>> addicted - we're locked in or trapped by a narrow perspective,
>> unrepresentative of Reality.
>
> The trouble with statements like this is that they
> create an infinite regress. The realization that
> any thought is a viewpoint is *itself* a viewpoint.
True. That too should be transcended.
>
> And if it's "true" that we become addicted if we take
> our thoughts too seriously, we should presumably
> therefore not take too seriously the thought that if
> we take our thoughts too seriously, we become addicted
> ....and so on.
If one took too seriously the thought that one shouldn't take thoughts too
seriously, one might become careless or irresponsible. There's a balance
point.
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