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Very good observations Colleen
Sent from my iPad > On Aug 11, 2016, at 10:10 AM, The Resolution of Mind list > <[email protected]> wrote: > > ************* > The following message is relayed to you by [email protected] > ************ > "IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS LIFE" ... and that's all we were and ever will be > truly ... simply Life, Life with an urge. Before I convinced myself that I am > the limited self who I am today I was simply life with an urge to know itself > ... to experience. > > Then Life with an urge to know itself accumulated ideas about how Life should > be and Life needed time to play that out, and life decided it needed a > "time-bank" for all these accumulated ideas and roles. This is what we call > our MIND -- the mind - or artificial intelligence - that holds all the past > from the moment we had our first intention to try out some idea. > > Then Life began to rely more and more on our minds' calculations of how Life > should be, and Life became more and more fixated and limited and, worse, > HUNG-UP ON OPPOSING IDEAS ABOUT HOW LIFE SHOULD BE. Now compulsiveness, > neurosis and even insanity began to manifest as part of Life's experience. > > So, you see, the secret to regaining a measure of our freedoms for the > pursuit of our happiness (one of our American Constitutional rights, by the > way) is to employ effective methods of contemplation and self-enquiry that > have us look square at our minds' accumulated hang-ups and unfix ourselves > from them and end the identification with our mind of ideas of how life > should be and return to our more expansive state of Life, albeit much wiser > for having known more about Life and what we as Life is capable of. > > Then we can freely pursue our best and truest interests without fixations and > hang-ups and compulsive non-Life goals, and improve ourselves and attain to > that joy of competency, knowing that we are fulfilling Life's urge to fully > experience itself. > > love, > colleen > > _______________________________________________ > TROM mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.newciv.org/mailman/listinfo/trom
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