Merle, Don't worry, freeing oneself is freeing oneself.
KG just likes to be contradictory... He's a good lesson to sharpen our understanding... Edgar On Aug 30, 2012, at 8:38 PM, Merle Lester wrote: > > 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: >> >> 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" > > > >
