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Posted by Steve on 6/18/2009, 8:10 pm, in reply to "Re: An Unforced Response Has Occurred."
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: For me, "allowing nature to take its
: course" requires a bit of cultivation.
:
: Let's say.......
: I wake up from a bad dream - a really bad
: dream - in a state of panic. At first I
: need to look around and see that I'm safe in
: my bed. Then I might try to psycho-analyze
: the dream. Eventually I'll fall back
: asleep. I think the whole process is part
: of cultivation. I'm not trying to improve
: the universe - just my perspective of it?
:
: I agree with you...... I don't feel a need
: to "cultivate Dao." That sounds
: like it's a plant you have to water and pull
: the weeds from. :-)
:
: I cultivate myself. Does that work for you?
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'Cultivating myself' works fine for me, Nina. :)
Implicit in your bad-dream scenario, I think, is that you already knew how to deal with the episode. The instructions for dealing with it were hard-coded in your DNA, and that if you just allowed events to unfold--and avoided trying to 'control' the situation--all would be well.
No master, no book, had to teach you what you already knew there.
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-Li Daoqun
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