Perhaps he is already on board! If you really look at his contentment and non interference with the world you can see that he is already part of the solution!
On May 1, 5:24 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > In answer to your question I'm going to go with my tried and tested > "because people are differant" > > I have many siblings, but let me concentrate on the one closest to me, > my lil brother Kevin(and I'm sure he won't mind me using him as an > example). > > I sometimes envy Kevin, only sometims though, and what I envy is his > ability to go through life without giving the most cursury of thought > to any aspect of life other than how much money he has, and where his > next beer is coming from. > > Not for him the sole searching the quest for answers to some of life's > more philosophical problems, as long as he is fine, and his spoue and > his kids, then he really has no worries. World peace, meh! fair > treatement for all, meh! and honest upfront goverement that works for > the benifiet of all of it's citizerns, meh! > > Okay it means that when we get together(and we do a lot) then the talk > is confined to 'bloke' chat. Kevin is not the only one who see's no > worth nor merit in deeper thought. We just won't get every individual > on board, nope it'll never happen. > > On 29 Apr, 00:22, Tinker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > My take on the Dali Lama crying when he was asked if there was an easy > > way to enlightenment sets the stage. > > > Dali cried because he knows that the way to enlightenment is too > > difficult, for enough of mankind to learn, and would never be able to > > bring about the transcendence that Buddhism seeks as its flavor of > > Unity. > > > Why is it that all the great minds of our time and those of history > > all converge on the fact that the power for solving all of the > > problems of the world is within the mind of mankind, but none have > > been able to affect the ways of mankind to bring about any significant > > change? > > The power connection in the mind has many different descriptions of it > > and directions on how to access it. It can be simply a magnificent > > light and it can be Jesus in all his glory. And it is exactly what it > > is according to whoever is describing it. It is a real thing and > > that’s the description that is available from previous information > > that has been incorporated into the belief structure of the > > individual. > > It is energy. It is indescribable. But it is such a wonderful thing > > that we have to describe it so we can claim it as ours. The method of > > description is metaphor, using that which is familiar to us. > > It is a resource for the individual to connect with the collective > > intelligence. > > When we connect with it we get a personal charge, it is a personal > > thing, the opposite of a Unity thing. > > We have gone to it (possibly only subconsciously), identified it and > > made it our personal knowing and understanding justifier, establishing > > our personal religion. And we exclude anything that is not in line > > with our personal religion. > > This is not the way to Unity. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
