--- In [email protected], ChrisAustinLane <ch...@...> wrote: >
> > Do persons not have a choice as to what they think/feel is important to themselves? > I certainly do not seem to; sometimes I know what is important to me, sometimes even that is mysterious. I have had very poor results to directly shift the priorities of my living. Fortunately, what i think/feel is important is not that important. What I do is what is important to me, and I have much more luck, say picking up a piece of paper on the floor and tossing it in the recycle bin than I do have in becoming a person that finds cleanliness important. Too many arguments with various thoughts and remembered emotions there, but i can pick up one item. In any intant it is impossible to tell for certain whether a person is acting from his own free will, what his motivations are, or what unconscious fixations, compulsions and programs are driving him. Nevertheless, in our society today, we tend to grant people the autonomy to do their own thing and arrive at their own insights in the fullness of time. > > So, what if they are 'attached'? > > What business is that of anyone else? > Well, we are all one. > Thanks, > Chris Austin-Lane We are all one what? The Buddha did say: "Work out your own salvation with diligence." Thanks, ED
