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Posted by gar on 11/4/2009, 2:40 pm, in reply to "here's a nearly non-philosophical one for Garr"
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Greetings rat,
It seems to me rat that the highest priority in my metal processor is to produce chemicals that give me pleasure. But it also seems what goes up must come down so gar prefers contentment.
Wikipedia;
"The source of all mentally created dissatisfactions appears to stem from the ability to compare and contrast experiences and find reality as one is living it to be less than ideal.[citation needed] The solution is to seek out ways to either make experienced reality conform to the ideal or to lower expectations to the level of the experienced.[citation needed] When one can live in the moment with expectations in harmony with experiences one has achieved the greatest mental contentment possible.[citation needed] Variants of this pursuit are found in all religions and manifest in many forms of meditation and prayerful devotions."
I did ask myself this morning why i was smiling looking at some green moss in the sunlight. Was it pleasure or contentment?
Beats me! Macht Nichts!
in peace,
gar
P.S. Truth seems to be in a state of flux.
Why do some die and some live? The best fitted to their circumstances seem to survive.
--Previous Message--
: (I published this one on scribd)
:
: Is there any truth to apophatic
: mysticism?
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:
: Almost all mystics insist on the
: truth/authenticity of their path. Many
: would be offended by the suggestion that
: they might be fooling themselves with a mere
: dream or illusion.
:
: But the apophatic mystic—one example
: would be Zhuangzi—is not interested in
: authenticating her practice. She is
: interested in gaining a know-how, not in
: obtaining knowledge as to what is and is not
: ultimately true. She is only interested in
: le 樂, that beautiful feeling which results
: in her falling in love with every being and
: all of being. (容 rong the all-embracing)
: If you tell her that she is fooling herself,
: this will not bother her in the least.
:
: She is interested in the know-how that
: will allow this deep feeling of well-being
: (樂) to become non-contingent on any
: material event. Non-contingent le is called
: zile: 自樂. Zhuangzi: “When she was
: successful she was content; and when she
: miserably failed she was content.” (
: 窮亦樂，通亦樂 . )
:
: This does not mean that mystics like
: Zhuangzi are never sad, nor are they never
: tearful. Indeed we find out that Zhuangzi
: cried when his wife died. Zile indicates
: that there is a deep sense of well-being no
: matter what happens.
:
: The apophaticist has freed (jie 解)
: herself of all attachments. This includes
: any attachment to a claim of knowing
: ultimate truth. She is only interested in
: practical truth—whatever truly lets her
: enjoy life at this moment.
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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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