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Posted by Lian Dao on 1/16/2008, 9:20 am, in reply to "Re: pop recognition of ancient wisdom"
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: And this runs directly counter to much
: "ancient wisdom!"
: The "Diamond Sutra" begings by
: asking, amost other things, "how can I
: control my mind?" Indeed, meditation
: techniques are basically about controlling
: the mind. And it's not passive control, it's
: sitting on the mind and whipping it into
: shape!
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: I disagree, Fastovsky, that's exactly what
: the old wisdom is about. It's not about
: "sitting on the mind and whipping it
: into shape", but being aware of what
: mind is doing, observing the activity of
: thought, and in that state of bare, direct
: attention thoughts aren't being churned out,
: mind settles and falls quiet naturally,
: effortlessly.
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The problem inherent in your system Josef is, are you simply thinking about not thinking the thoughts you are thinking? If so then perhaps there is a conditional distinction, that being of a dualistic nature, between your mind, or individual, cognitive thought and Mind as such?
Amitofo!
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"The Tao is basically utterly open. Utter openeness has no substance. It ends in endlessness, begins in beginninglessnes".
-Li Daoqun
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