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> > > Why can we not accept ourselves and our environment the way it is, and
> > learn
> > > to live in tune with it and each other.
> >
> > Bloody good question!! Searching for the answer to this one has led me
to
> > some strange places.
> >
>
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> Why are you searching? Can't you just accept it? (Only half a joke...)
>
> We are compelled by our human nature to explore. Overcoming the
> desire to explore and becoming still is the pinnacle of the Zen
> masters' training. Which is kind of what I think Neil was getting at.
> If we could see we that we are already perfect, then we would be
> enlightened. And we wouldn't be phucking things up.
>
> martian
>
You partly answer the question yourself Martian. Overcoming the desire to
explore is part of the search. Its a paradox searching for that which you
already have, but thats the way it is. The Zen monks training is his search.
Yes and only IF we could see our perfection.
I tend to take the view-point of Gurdjieff on this one. We are for the large
part sound asleep machnical robots just living out our conditioning. However
we have a posibility through various techniques, hard work and dedication to
become more than this. The state of realising our perfection and living in
total acceptance in the here and now is a potential, not where we are now -
hence the search. However the journey is all part of the beauty of it. Life
gets better as you move in this direction.
Magna
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