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Posted by Steve on 1/16/2008, 3:24 pm, in reply to "Re: pop recognition of ancient wisdom"
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: The matter of using mind to settle
: mind...heh, fun to try and wrap one's mind
: around that baby.
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: Steve, words fail here, but I would say
: rather it's using awareness to observe mind.
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: The awareness you seek either comes or it
: does not. I don't think this is
: predestination or karmic destiny; it's more
: subtle than that. With powerful biological
: influences and ramifications.
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: It's not a matter of "seeking
: awareness", one is just aware. Becoming
: aware of the activity in one's own mind in
: this case.
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Yes, words certainly fail here. But, fun to keep trying.
"It's not a matter of "seeking awareness", one is just aware. Becoming aware of the activity in one's own mind in this case."
Are you claiming you skipped the desiring part and went directly to awareness, josef?
You seem determined to omit human ickiness from the equation.
Will you at least admit that your very human and very wicked desires--for clarity, awareness, whatever...are part of the equation?
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