--- In [email protected], new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <rorygoff@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], new.morning <no_reply@> > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <rorygoff@> wrote: > > > > > No; much like Jim, I'd suggest these are essentially a waste of time > > For you or for me?
For anyone actually seeking to unravel their suffering :-) > We clearly have a different view on how the Work can be applied, and > the value of doing so. And thats what make the world a wonderful > place. I hope I am not offending BK by applying her work in some > forbidden or inappropriate way. I have never heard of placing limits > on its practice. Have you? I've generally seen it applied to one's areas of suffering, which to me makes a lot of sense. YMMV. > A value I place on the work, or similar approaches, is that it can > help reduce the clutter, and noise of judgments in ones mind. Interesting -- to me it looked as if you were *increasing* the clutter with all those irrelevant questions. My mistake :-) >I used > to have such more - and I observe it in other peoples dialogs -- where > there is a habit or compulsion to judge many things. It can be > gossipy, or high minded -- but its still, IMO, a waste of time and mind. Agreed. > I suggest, at least for me, that one need only judge another person, > or thing, if one has to make a decision regarding them. And that > doesn't have to even be a judgment. An evaluation is not a judgement > in my book. But our definitions an perspectives may differ. A great > thing. I see judgements as making a qualitative assessment of the > person / thing. A la, "she is good", or "that is bad". An evaluation > is "she has these qualities, having them or not having them does not > diminish or amplify her". > > That you don't find value ins doing such is fine with me. You probably > don't have any monkey-mind judgements going on. Wonderful. It doesn't > diminish me i you don't see the value in my practices. My happiness is > not effected. Or affected either, I suspect! >And I like you either way. And you always have, and always will, right? :-) > May diversity sprout 1000 heads. Doesn't it already have trillions upon trillions? Or is that just McDonald's? *L*L*L*
