--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "pod127b" <pod1...@...> wrote:
> > Tools to what end? > > > > It is a very multiple purpose tool. > > Here are a few tried and proven uses- > > > > 1)Improve your martial arts skills > > > > 2)Better navigate through a herd of people > > > > 3)Be able to separate nuts from bolts faster > > > > 4)Experience life more intensely in a short period of time > > > > 5)Endure pain in order to run far, or to have your teeth drilled without > Novocain > > > > 6)Better enjoy the subtleties of eating a fresh mango > > > > 7)To appreciate the life experience at ALL moments, but remain clear and > ruthless enough to change course at any moment in accord with the > dictates of a refined link with one's own spirit. Good so far, besides I think 6) is totally overrated. I had enough of mangos for the moment. > > > > But come on, you already know about all this. I think more or less, but in a different way- Maybe you have never > experienced it? Maybe not. My various ways of perceiving reality do > not make me superior, and for each seeming added benefit there is a loss > in some other aspect. For instance, if you compress time, the ability > to remember diminishes. Yes? But it does happen, at least to me at the moment, time gets compressed quite a bit. > > > > My posts are not written to those who don't understand me, because they > likely never will. I have no interest in arguing or debating anything > or putting anyone down. There are VERY few people who will understand > me, or be able to add to my awareness. What I write about are already > well established modes of consciousness on my part and I am not looking > for verification or argument. > > > > My posts are written to those who have experienced similar things, to > reflect and compare the experience. I am not a proponent of spiritual > teaching, or learning. I have no time for that. Even with a thousand > lifetimes I still have no time for that. > > > > If you are right for yoga and self sacrifice and discipline, then you > are already strange, and half way to being a yogi. I like your choice of words, quite honestly, even though a word like self sacrifice is not very TMish You were probably > like that as a child too, strange that is. So far I have only found a > few points of reflection in this group, and will soon return to my other > activities. Do you know first hand what I have been writing about? Do > you know personally any of the people whom I have mentioned? > > > > Things like yoga and TM are not for everyone, just like Don Krieger > pointed out in something I just read on the internet. I knew Don > Krieger personally and he is an example of how some people will never > get it, and more important, NEVER be satisfied, no matter how much time > and effort they "invest". I don't know Don Krieger. I love everyone but that guy was such a > hemorrhoid. If he reads this then I suggest he find peace within > himself as a hemorrhoid. Maybe he is different, but I doubt it, because > it would seem that he does not want to take responsibility for his own > actions and his place in life. > > > > I am not interested in changing the TMO because people don't want to > take responsibility for themselves, for their belief systems. I am not involved in the TMO at present, and I have no interest at all in any discussions about it, or about things that are 30+ years back. There are > so many whiners in the world, and I piss on them for a brief moment, and > then quickly move on to the things at hand. Life in the present moment > is like that. No whining, no regrets, no incrimination, no argument, > and very little memory of any of it left behind, just an attitude that > can pass the test of time. Right.
