> On Jun 20, 2007, at 2:06 AM, tertonzeno wrote: > > > --- > > So, Rory; you see no need to rectify anything? Sounds like a typical > > Neo-Advaitin-ism. I suppose that if some home invaders took over > > your neighbor's house and threatened to kill everybody, you wouldn't > > take measures to "rectify" the situation? (i.e. make it go away, > > change it in some way?). At the very least, call the cops.
--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's all one, so why bother? Because it's all one, we "bother". There is no need to rectify anything, *including* my current impulse to clarify your apparent misapprehensions of my position(s). I write this despite my suspicion that you really do *get* this, and you're just pulling my leg, because I do remember when I didn't get it, for many years, so I know that hypothetically not-getting this is indeed possible and probably prevalent. So even if you *do* get this and are just playing dumb, there are others who don't, so this may be actually heard somewhere, somewhen, by some Being actually seeking to come back to "Me." I also suspect that (as someone on FFL said recently -- was it Curtis? Or Judy?) not-getting this is a Piaget-like stage of Being, like a kid who doesn't get it that a tall narrow glass and a short fat one contain the same amount of water. He won't get it even if we pour the water back and forth between the glasses all day long; he thinks it's some kind of a trick. He thinks either the tall glass is bigger, or the fat glass is bigger -- he can't see that tall+thin = short+fat. Nonetheless, I'll pour the water a few more times, just for the fun of it. There is no need to rectify anything, *including* my hypothetical impulse to call the cops in your hypothetical home-invasion scenario. My appreciation of the perfection of what IS *includes* all our particular dynamic attempts to change what IS. It is both utterly still *and* utterly dynamic, simultaneously. It is both silent *and* noisy, simultaneously. It is both mistake-laden *and* error-free, simultaneously. It contains all the slippery opposites in spacetime, because it is US, and we're more than spacetime, more than any particular story. It is -- we are -- whatever we put our attention on and thereby evoke from the vasty deep. Chopra has a good analogy -- if we look at the movement of the crowd in a train station, we see people rushing everywhere in apparent chaos, and yet there is an underlying order; everyone's needs are being met. To me, that's a great description of Life -- everyone's needs are being met. If we don't think our needs are being met, we look closer, feel the emotion(s), be open to our deepest need in this moment, open our heart to receive the divine perfection being offered to us in this moment, be open to receiving both subtler and infinitely more fullness more than we expected, almost certainly in a different flavor than we expected. If we're completely honest with ourself, completely open, we will find what we've been craving, and infinitely more. But again, maybe only when we're ready to see the two glasses of water are equivalent! :-) *L*L*L*
