Do you mean that nowhere is not a good place to be?
It's the only safe place in my experience.
jim_flanegin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- In
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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>
> Presented just for a laugh, and as a possible
> replacement for the Vedas, with IMO just as much
> potential value for the spiritual seeker:
>
> 1. The more concerned seekers are with shielding
> themselves from people, animals, places and things
> that drain their energy or "personal power," the
> less likely it is that they have any of it to drain.
>
> 2. The more that seekers refer to their path or
> spiritual technique or tradition as "the best" or
> "the highest," the more likely it is that they've
> never tried another one.
>
> 3. The more that seekers argue for the "rightness"
> or "correctness" or "truth" of their path's dogma,
> the less likely it is that the dogma is any of those
> things, or that it has any worth.
>
> 4. The more convinced the seeker is of his present
> state of consciousness, the less likely it is that
> he is correct. Unless his assessment of his state
> of consciousness is CC (Cluelessness Consciousness),
> in which case he may be onto something.
>
> 5. The more a seeker demands to be taken seriously,
> the less likely he will be.
>
> 6. The higher a seeker considers himself on the
> evolutionary ladder, the more likely it is that he
> just hasn't looked up in quite a while.
>
> 7. The more "beneath him" a seeker considers other
> people, the more likely he is to step on them and
> use them as stepping stones to climb higher.
>
> 8. The more a seeker claims to be "moral," the more
> likely he is to be a closet megalomaniac.
>
> 9. The more reverence the seeker has for the words
> of scriptures and teachers of the past, the less
> reverence he is likely to have for the words of
> people around him in the present.
>
> 10. The more compelled the seeker is to "defend"
> his beliefs and his path, the more worried he is that
> they aren't true and that he's wasted his life
> following them.
>
> 11. The more that a seeker feels compelled to change
> others and "make them better," the less likely it is
> that any of their advice, if followed, *would* make
> the others "better."
>
> 12. The more that seekers laugh at the attempts of
> others to "make them better," the more likely it is
> that they're doing just fine, and have no need to
> be better.
>
> 13. In general, the more a seeker laughs, the more
> likely it is that he's on the right path. Conversely,
> the more a seeker is serious and demands to be taken
> seriously, the more likely it is that he's lost his
> way.
>
> 14. Repetition is the mother of anal retention. That is,
> the more the seeker uses a word to describe others, the
> more likely it is that he is really describing himself.
>
> 15. If a seeker has gone more than a couple of months
> without expressing an original thought (that is, one
> that he didn't read somewhere or have told to him by
> his teacher or tradition or some other "expert"), chances
> are he has lost the ability to have an original thought,
> and may never have one again.
>
> 16. The more a seeker claims to know what God "wants,"
> the more likely it is that he has mistaken himself for
> God and what he wants for what God wants.
>
> 17. If a seeker doesn't like to be around animals or
> children, chances are the animals and children don't like
> to be around him, and he's trying to hide that fact by
> avoiding them.
>
> 18. If a seeker on a spiritual chat board has gone more
> than a couple of months without describing an event in
> his personal life that was ecstatic and wonderful and
> full of light, chances are that there really haven't
> *been* any of those moments in his life during that
> period.
>
> 19. The more important a seeker considers himself in
> the cosmic scheme of things, the less likely it is that
> the cosmos would even notice he was gone if he died.
>
> 20. The more spiritual aphorisms you read instead of
> coming up with your own, the stupider you become. :-)
>
21. Those that contnuously claim there is nowhere to go, go nowhere.
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