--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > On Behalf Of TurquoiseB > > > > Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 2:29 AM > > > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: How Thinking and Meditating Can > > > Change the > > > > Brain > > > > > > > > All in all, I can only *commend* Rick once again > > > > for having started this forum, in which a few of > > > > the more open-minded seekers can exchange information > > > > and learn from each other. It's just a pain in the > > > > ass sometimes when the fanatics -- on either side -- > > > > try to dominate it and turn it into a showcase > > > > for their rock-solid, immovable belief systems > > > > and the damage that's done to their psyches. > > > > > > Odd comment here, for barry seems to be saying that only if we are > > > uncertain of what we believe, and continually questioning > > > everything, our psyches are by default damaged. granted this is a > > > valid perspective for him, and he clearly enjoys it, but by trying > > > to impose it on others, he becomes the fanatic that he is railing > > > against. > > > > I meant that he is saying that only if we are > > uncertain of what we believe, and continually questioning > > everything, our psyches are by default UNdamaged... > > Just a few self-inquiry questions, when and > if they arrive on FFL: > > Who is this 'we' you speak of who are certain > of their beliefs? You're not implying that there > is a self present to believe these things, are you? > > If so, does that self change so slowly that it can > become convinced that the way it perceives reality > *is* reality? I ask because my self (and I have no > problems admitting that I have one, even if it *does* > change more often than some of the folks here change > their underwear) recycles so fast that it doesn't > have *time* to become attached to anything long > enough to consider it "true" or to form a lasting > belief system around it. >
Totally [almost] non-attached save for your obsession with Judy, my lack of regularity with TM, etc...
