Thank you for setting me straight. I feel much better. -Peter --- akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > To be a bit more specific Peter, your dharma cop > role assumes most > people are fools. It assumes all people are like > woody allen's satire > / characture of himself as a kid in Annie Hall. As > you remember, the > young 10 year old is brought to the psychiatrist by > his mother because > Alvie won't do anything other than stare at walls. > Alvie explains his > version of existential angst to the shrink, "the > universe is > expannding, which means one day it will explode and > that > will be the end of everything." > > Some funny responses: His mother yells, "What > business is it of yours > what the Universe is doing??!!" And the shrink > explains in > condescending tones, "Don't worry Alvie, Brooklyn is > not expanding." > > Your fear appears to be that everyone is an Alvie, > that they will be > paralyzed into inaction if they dare recognize a > reality that is only > partially, though perhaps not yet eternally > recognized. People, their > associated reactive minds, intellects and bodies, > are usually not that > dull as to sink into paralysis when realizing > conceptually, based on > experience -- even if it is not eternal experience, > that there is no > doer. Or at a deeper level, there is no action. > > One can learn of how food is assimilated at > chemical, quantum > mechanical or even cosmological levels ("it doesn't > amout to a hill of > beans" to quote another film) and yet still the body > contines to eat > on the surface level. It is not shocked into > paralysis knowing its > just quantum soup drinking quantum soup. > > So your role playing dharmic high priest, telling > people from what and > how they should interpret the world, is ITMBO (in > this mind/body's > opinion) more something you are working out > internally, and does not > provide much useful real world guidance for others. > > But everyone can and will decide on their own. > Besides, this is just > all quantum soup made from an insignificant hill of > beans. > > --- your pal alvie (still crazy, but not paralyzed, > after all these > years). > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Yes, I understand Peter. > > > > As long as you continue to comparmentalize > wholeness into little > > domains, and feel the need to keep tracking our > different > > dharmas blazing in your mind, you will continue to > feel the need to > > play dharma cop -- and to continue to cite people > for your own > > internal vision of dharmic conflicts of the One > Eternal Dharma. > > > > Cite away. > > > > As GH said: Beware of darkness. All things must > pass. > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter > Sutphen > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Watch out Akasha, you're going to get a dharma > fine! > > > > > > --- akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter > Sutphen > > > > > > > > > When I started teaching TM in 1973, National > > > > always > > > > > sent the correct percentage back and the > correct > > > > > percentage into my ATR account. That lasted > for a > > > > few > > > > > years until someone sucked the ATR credit > account > > > > dry. > > > > > -Peter > > > > > > > > Well, for the mind/body aka Peter, there was > no > > > > doer of the > > > > initiations, and thus no thief claiming > ownership of > > > > the action, and > > > > thus no thief claiming ownership of the ATR > credit. > > > > > > > > And the blazing Brahman mind/body aka MMY, was > not a > > > > thief of the action > > > > of canceling all ATR credits. > > > > > > > > Thus it appears nature was working on nature, > > > > adjusting karmic account > > > > consistent with Eternal Dharma. No thief, no > victim, > > > > no foul. > > > > > > > > So where in the Brahaman is the problem? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > Or go to: > > > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > > > > and click 'Join This Group!' > > > > Yahoo! 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