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Posted by ButchO
on 7/26/2011, 10:47 pm, in reply to "Re: The great way is not difficult"
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: John McRae (1986:316 n. 64) argues that the
: title should be translated as “Inscription
: on Relying on the Mind�or “Inscription
: of the Perfected Mind�
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: If the mind is not Perfect do you still rely
: on the mind.
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: It should be obvious that it should not be
: translated as one or the either.
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: Perfect Mind, True Mind?????
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: The Mind is not perfect so you can not
: simply rely on the mind.
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: The True Mind, the Perfect Mind, is a Clear
: and Open Mind; Clear, Free, Thinking
: requiring that one to know the Different
: between Absolutely Bad Knowledge and
: Absolutely Good Knowledge, Illusion and
: Reality.
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: True Freedom of Mind is unbound, is
: boundless.
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: The True, the Perfect Mind, the Clear and
: Open Mind is capable of Illusion without
: being bound by the Illusion. The Magical
: Mind being the Key, the Gateway to
: Shambhala; However the mind that is Untrue,
: is not clear, Open, that is bound to
: Illusion, is imperfect, will become the
: Gateway to a Land a Shamble.
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: Greetings Wayne L
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: The Mind is not perfect so you can not
: simply rely on the mind.
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: It seems to me, Wayne, what is perfection?
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: In a reality without things, perfection has
: no qualities. No time, distance, speed or
: mass only emptiness. So, to me, the perfect
: mind is no mind.
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: How do we follow no mind? Perhaps wu-wei.
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: in peace,
: gar
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: Freedom of Motion is absolute by definition,
: Something having Freedom of Motion not being
: subject to the Relativity of Time and Space;
: is not readily apparent, is not measurable
: as to location and momentum in Time and
: Space,
: Space-Time, the Three Dimensional World of
: Reality, Freedom of Mind not being subject
: to the Relativity of Time and Space,
: Space-Time, the Three-Dimensional World of
: Reality.
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Friends,
See you have been mooning each other.
I suppose I may as well join in.
The sages, from every time and every place, tell us that there is a higher state of consciousness than our conditioned state of this and that, of separation. A state of consciousness where separation gives way to unity. Where the part gives way to the whole. Where the ego gives way to the Self of existence. Where dualistic thinking gives way to nondualistic awareness. A shift in perception that is so profound that it is said to be God like thinking. A shift in perception that creates a new reality. A reality no longer based in time, but in eternity. Before Abraham was, I am. A timeless state of consciousness. An awakened from the dream of separation state of mind. An ineffable state of being. The tao that can be described is not the eternal Tao. The easy way of the spirit.
The way of matter is hard. The way of materialism is an infinite regression. A closed loop. The way of the spirit is spontaneous. An open embrace.
The easy way cannot be found in the self though the self must take the first step in a journey of a thousand miles. Nor can it be found in others. The flip side of self is just another way of looking at same. At duality. Love God first. Then love others as you love your self. Then love others the way God does. The way of a state of consciousness without limitations. Call it what you will. God, Tao, It, Great Spirit in the Sky, Cosmic Consciousness, names for that which is beyond naming. The Source of being. Our source. Us. The Kingdom of Consciousness. A family of souls enjoined by Spirit. More than one of us, but less than two. A whole greater than the sum of its parts.
The way of the World is hard. The way of the Spirit is easy. Relatively speaking. Embrace the unity of opposites. No day without night. We are that which does not change at play within a show of ever changing shadows.
Essence is easy. Appearance is hard.
Enlightenment waxes and wanes as it gently unfolds.
We are in a reality we have created.
If we don't like it we have it within us to change it. Perception is reality. The sun shines on good and bad alike for there is no difference between yin and yang except in thinking it so. Embrace the whole. Turn to a higher state of consciousness. Meditate. We are reality in search of Reality.
Love is the master key. God like love. Not ego driven love. Or hate. I'll love you or hate you depending on whether or not you love or hate me. Just sage like acceptance of the ways things aren't.
All we need is god like love.
ButchO
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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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