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Posted by Nina
on 6/19/2009, 6:50 pm, in reply to "Re: An Unforced Response Has Occurred."
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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.
:
:
If I already knew how to deal with them, Steve, then I wouldn't have screamed like a baby when I had nightmares as a kid. It took a long time for my adult mind to see them for what they are.
When my favorite actress as a kid, Elizabeth Taylor, died in a movie we went to see...... I cried my eyes out. My dad told me she wasn't really dead - that it was just a movie. I wasn't trying to control anything. I just needed someone who knew more than I did to inform me.
Sometimes we do need teachers, and to dismiss them out of hand seems very weird to me.
Through cultivation you and I can learn how to separate the chaff from the grain?
......Sorry for interrupting your little tete-a-tete with Butch. :-)
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