Enlightened guys are just you and me with better PR and labels.
E = Enlightened guy M = Me
E) My desires got fulfilled by my support of nature.
M) I wanted something and I got it.
E) My desire didn't happen because other people's deservability wasn't
high enough to support it. They should look to the purity of their lives.
M) I didn't get what I wanted but I will try again.
E) Do less accomplish more do nothing accomplish everything.
M) Work smarter not harder.
E) People's karma returned to them as bad events.
M) S-- happens.
E) My Self is the basis of the whole universe, I am eternal and
unbounded.
M) I'm feeling good today.
E) I could have anything I desire but my desires will only arise
according to the need of the time.
M) I get some stuff I want and don't get some stuff, such is life.
E) I don't make mistakes I only serve the needs of nature.
M) I made a mistake, sorry.
E) If anything I have done hurts you, it was your karma and will help
you advance in your evolution.
M) If I hurt you, sorry, I can be a dumbass sometimes.
E) The parking space opened up for me because of my sattvic life. The
means gather around my purity.
M) Wow, a parking space opened up!
E) When I drop my mortal coil I will live eternally as a drop returned
to the ocean, never to reincarnate again in the world of duality and
suffering.
M) Anybody see the remote? Oh there it is!
--- In [email protected], new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], new.morning <no_reply@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Great post Curtis. Peg Leg Sam -- a classic. (No relation to
> > Toothpick
> > > Sad Sam Jones I suppose -- (now thats an obscure reference)).
> > >
> > > Sort of reminds me of what I envision MMY or others might say when
> > > asked to fly. "I could, but I don't really like flying."
> > >
> > > Which brings me to Rory and Jim. Guys, I appreciate your responses.
> > > And I have understood them I think, and appreciate the views you
> > > expressed. But you didn't directly answer my question. Not that you
> > > are obligated to.
> > >
> > > Jim, you sort of implied an answer -- that you weres peeved at Bush
> > > and Iraq -- and this expressed disatisfaction might be an agent for
> > > change. Which implies, to me, your ability to fulfill desires
> > doesn't
> > > extend to big things like Iraq. So its a limited qualified type of
> > > desire fulfillment.
> >
> > I agree with what Rory said,
>
> Thats a surprise! MahaMe swallowing the particle MiniMe and each --
> the one mind/body/mouth -- saying "sumptuous!" :)
>
>
> that the dissatisfaction found with the
> > war, is really some sort of resolution that needs to be resolved
> > within me. Which is not to say I will stop feeling what I am feeling
> > or doing what I am doing. I do agree with something else that Rory
> > has said, and that is that particles as he puts it (and it is a very
> > effective use of the word (lol)) don't necessarily want the things
> > that we want for them-- this goes for Curtis too when he makes his
> > rationalist arguments against fulfillment of desires. So though I
> > have opinions and express them and will call something out if it
> > needs to be changed, I can think of nothing in my existence that
> > needs to be changed so badly that my life is not whole without it. I
> > hope that answers your question.:-)
>
> Yes that is clearer, and more straightforward -- personally honest IMO
> -- than some other particles. :)
>
> Your statement -- amended -- appears to be, paraphrasing, "I get a lot
> of my personal desires fulfilled. But not all the big ones, global
> ones happen right away -- and its hard to tell what influence that I
> have on them. Still, each and every particle desiring a change towards
> greater happiness for other particles is certainly not
> counterproductive. And it may even help. But in large part, even when
> my desires are not fulfilled, it doesn't effect my happiness."
>
> I am not saying you should be saying that, but that is my sense of
> what you are saying. Or at least my personal takeaway -- the value it
> has induced in me. For me, thats a healthy appraoch, and yur post
> helped me frame it, for me.
>
