--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > Ah, the things one learns in life from the presence of -- or > > absence of -- light. Some people view life as a series of > > symbolic clues to follow so that they can "solve" the mystery > > of it all. Others just look on the clues as invitations to > > enjoy the mystery *as* mystery. Just predilection, I guess, > > but I'm sure glad that I wound up with mine. > > > A wonderful real-life parable, and thanks for sharing it! And still > others are drawn by one clue after another in order to penetrate the > mystery of it all, finding ultimately that even the one that began on > the trail of clues has vanished, replaced by an unending series of > dark passage ways and brilliant flashes of light, each moment by > moment, by moment. > > A life lived not by rote, even of noticing the times of breaking free, > of shifting the paradigm, because nothing exists before, in order to > determine what comes next. A life lived in total freedom where even > freedom, because of its total pervasiveness, ceases to exist. :-) >
Barry wrote the first sutra here, I wrote the second, any takers for third?:-)