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Posted by josef on 12/22/2008, 6:25 pm, in reply to "Re: Will/intention"
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: Before I am introspective, the barrier to
: introspection must have fallen away. And
: before that, another barrier must have
: fallen away. Ad infinitum.
~~~This statement makes no sense to me. Would you elaborate?
:
: You want to feel that you are a controller,
: josef. A 'bringer of change.'
~~~I'm not sure what you 'see' that makes you presume this, but would rather stay with the discussion about your sense of having barriers and inability to will awareness or introspection. What are the barriers you feel?
: Me too.
: I think it must be in our natures to want to
: feel that.
~~~It's "in our natures to want to feel"...that we are "bringers of change"...? What does that mean? Obviously, in many ways we can and do affect change, and many things we can't change.
~~~Your points elude me here, Steve. Am unable to follow your reasoning. Care to elucidate, elaborate and cerebrate a little more on this?
josef
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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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