'Freeing oneself' reeks of attachment! *L*
What is an attachment? What is attaching? What is attached?
All same. All mind.
Mind cannot be found.
Finding, is binding.
KG
PS - 'The Four (En)nobling Truths' (from a man who rejected his
nobility) is a riddle, the first koan - the cosmic joke as Siddhartha
Gautama tells it. Clever Buddha! The 'Eightfold Path" is descriptive not
prescriptive. The "Middle Way' does not lie between this or that. The
middle way offers no middle ground. The 'Middle Way' is infinitely wide,
with no boundaries, no beginning or end.
Who can choose the middle way? Any choice divides self from other. The
middle way, is realization.
PPS - The 'Middle Way' is often equated with equanimity (an aspect of
realization). Some random thoughts from one of the books I am/am not
writing via Twitter:
Equanimity is non-attachment. Detachment and attachment are dropped as
irrelevant concepts.
Equanimity is often described as a sort of "balance". Not a balance you
maintain, but realization of/abiding in/as the balance of all.
Equanimity is seeing the balance of being, not being balanced as a being.
Equanimity is choice-less awareness, wherein preferences remain intact,
yet unattached and empty, as with all aspects of self.
Equanimity does not stand apart in judgement.
Equanimity is without judgement. Unconditional, but not uncaring or
unfeeling.
Equanimity is not indifference, it is fully open engagement.
Equanimity is passionately embracing the inherently perfect balance of
chaos, not some dispassionate escape from it.
On 8/30/2012 7:28 AM, Edgar Owen wrote:
Merle,
The problem with being happily mired in ignorance and being attached
to all the good things in your life is that you then are going to be
equally attached to any bad things that happen....
That's why Buddha spoke of the Middle Way and freeing oneself from ALL
attachments, both the pleasant and unpleasant ones...
Edgar
On Aug 29, 2012, at 10:31 PM, Merle Lester wrote:
illusions...huh?
peck away edgar
strip me bare
free from my bondage from
those golden daffodils and pixies that are calling me..".come
hither..play with us"
merle...dancing to the tune of "wild thing"
