KG... can you clarify on this please...merle
'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:
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>the good things in your life is that you then are going to be equally attached
>to any bad things that happen....
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>That's why Buddha spoke of the Middle Way and freeing oneself from ALL
>attachments, both the pleasant and unpleasant ones...
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>Edgar
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>On Aug 29, 2012, at 10:31 PM, Merle Lester wrote:
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>> 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"
