On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Andre Broersen <[email protected]>wrote:


> Hi John, how can you reject/deny the I in 'primary reality' and desperately
> cling to it as a 'real entity'?




Simple. I reject the teaching that everything flows from the self, and
affirm the teaching that the self flows from everything.




> Andre:
> Perhaps, John, it is because I grew up in a rather large family (no privacy
> and all that stuff) that somewhere between the id and the super ego my
> 'ego' got squashed to such proportions that it is of no importance to me.
> Maybe I am traumatised yeah, shit, you gotta be somebody!! You gotta be
> autonomous,you gotta be independent, you gotta have a personal opinion, you
> gotta stand for something, you shouldn't stand this shit, you should this,
> you should that. Yeah! Nobody can touch you, you're a fuckin' individual
> (Gazza, Geelong Aussie rules player)
>


It is the "gotta" that is a big problem.  When choice is lost, play is
degraded.




> Andre:
> Yep...to pay one's taxes, join a health fund, have a bank account, go on
> the
> payroll, vote in elections, have a driver's licence to drive, have a
> passport to travel, get married, get fined, get you out of a house on
> fire, get a loan, die... so they know  to put what name on your tombstone.
>
> All fun put together John, yes it is SOCIALLY very handy, biologically
> no-one gives a fuck and intellectually we are only a concept...no?
>


"Only"?   Hey dude;  God is "only" a concept.


John


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