--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote:
Small self surrounded by Big Self is not anything of value.
CC precedes GC precedes UC. If you think you're having some kind of UC
experience when not already in CC (no small self), then you're not
having UC.
But Whos on
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote:
Small self surrounded by Big Self is not anything of value.
CC precedes GC precedes UC. If you think you're having some kind of UC
experience
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote:
Small self surrounded by Big Self is not anything of value.
CC precedes
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote:
Small self surrounded by Big Self is not anything of value.
CC
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote:
* * Hmm. Depends on how you define small self surrounded by Big Self, I
suppose. If one identifies with a small self being Witnessed by a separate
big Self, I would probably call that CC. When the small self -- and even the
question: does the knowledge/realization of do nothing and accomplish
everything affect the content of one's choices? (apart from intellectualizing
about the topic); for example - say - in the event that your next door
neighbor's house is being being invaded by would-be robbers. Or, protecting
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@... wrote:
question: does the knowledge/realization of do nothing and accomplish
everything affect the content of one's choices? (apart from
intellectualizing about the topic); for example - say - in the event that
your next door
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@... wrote:
question: does the knowledge/realization of do nothing and
accomplish everything affect the content of one's choices?
(apart from intellectualizing about the topic);
Good question. I don't see how it could fail to
affect one's
Hi Judy and Rory, Its a perception thing - I exist as an individual entity with
all my wondrous gifts and challenges, surrounded by a seamless fabric of
invisible dynamism, of tangible pregnancy, potential and love, like being able
to easily breathe underwater again. After so many lifetimes I
Small self surrounded by Big Self is not anything of value.
CC precedes GC precedes UC. If you think you're having some kind of UC
experience when not already in CC (no small self), then you're not having UC.
L.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote:
--- In
Wasn't challenging anybody's perception, BTW, just wanted
to point out how the guy who coined the phrase meant it.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@... wrote:
Hi Judy and Rory, Its a perception thing - I exist as an individual entity
with all my wondrous gifts and
Hi, Jim! Yes, that is exactly what I was trying to express below, only you did
it better :-)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@... wrote:
Hi Judy and Rory, Its a perception thing - I exist as an individual entity
with all my wondrous gifts and challenges, surrounded
* * Hi, Lawson. I believe I see where you're coming from here, but it appears
Jim is speaking of something else. From the POV of a small self lost/found in
Brahman we could say small self surrendered into Big Self is virtually
nothing and does nothing of itself -- of myself I do nothing; not I
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote:
I interpret this as meaning do nothing as the self, and
everything will be accomplished by the Self. In waking
state it makes no sense at all.
FWIW,
It is so intriguing and difficult to capture that space between us and
everything else, where no clear lines of division exist, and yet in order to
function in the world such divisions create unfathomable beauty and questions
and challenges, an utterly chaotic, perfect orderliness.
--- In
Yep, its all about the music.:-)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u wgm4u@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote:
I interpret this as meaning do nothing as the self, and
Dear L - why this fascination with dead guys and their dead words, me
prefers alive people and words, would rather listen to a St. Goff than a
St. Thomas :-)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote:
Small self surrounded by Big Self is not anything of value.
CC
Beautiful Jim - this and your previous post, you have articulated the
indescribable in words quite well.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@...
wrote:
It is so intriguing and difficult to capture that space between us and
everything else, where no clear lines of
I enjoy trying to express it. These guys said it very well- Within You Without
You/Tomorrow Never Knows by the Beatles with original promotional video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x07N5uoWpIo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@... wrote:
Beautiful Jim - this and your
Yes it would seem to be only applicable to the inner. There are so many
choices and decisions to make on the outer level but IME now being
rooted in an inner silence it feels like there is tons of time to
consider all the choices in a completely egoless manner. And after
making the decision, not
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@... wrote:
I interpret this as meaning do nothing as the self, and
everything will be accomplished by the Self. In waking
state it makes no sense at all.
FWIW, that's the exact opposite of what MMY meant by
it, with reference to the
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote:
I interpret this as meaning do nothing as the self, and
everything will be accomplished by the Self. In waking
state it makes no sense at all.
FWIW,
By 'doing nothing' one could 'accomplish everything.' Lao Tzu writes:
The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
If kings and lords observed this,
The ten thousand things would develop naturally.
If they still desired to act,
They would return to the
Lao Tsu taught that all straining, all striving are not only vain but
counterproductive. One should endeavor to do nothing (wu-wei). But
what does this mean? It means not to literally do nothing, but to
discern and follow the natural forces -- to follow and shape the flow
of events and not to pit
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:UiwZdIWS7ogJ:www.well.com/user/jct/chapter2.html+do+nothing+and+accomplish+everythinghl=enclient=firefox-a
http://www.well.com/user/jct/
Q: You are saying that all search is doomed because there is nothing
to achieve or understand.
U.G.: There is nothing to be
Just as the wind blowing back and forth
Controls (the movement of) a piece of cotton,
So shall I be controlled by joy,
And in this way accomplish everything.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lao Tsu taught that all straining, all striving are not only
vain but counterproductive.
and
The Taoist sage has no ambitions, therefore he can never fail.
He who never fails always succeeds. And he who always
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lao Tsu taught that all straining, all striving are not only
vain but counterproductive.
and
The Taoist sage has no ambitions,
And the wise know that they do not act.
As the Lord knows that he does not act.
Action in non-action
Non-action in action
Non-action in getting action
Getting action with non-action
This is the path of the Wise.
Unc Sutras XIII, 32:4
as cognized by Akasha
(upon visualizing the formless body of
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Lao Tsu taught that all straining, all striving are not only
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Lao Tsu taught that all straining, all striving are not only
vain but counterproductive.
and
The Taoist sage has no ambitions,
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think it is worth remembering that Lao-tzu was the
teacher who got so fed up with his students never
learning anything and never finding their own realiz-
ation that he quit teaching and left China altogether.
Or
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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The Tao abides in non-action
The Tao is pretty lazy then. The Tao obviously doesn't have kids.
The Tao most likely has
never kept a house. I would guess the Tao has never done much of
any kind of work.
The Tao
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