--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > <snip> > > > > > Wnat I *do* want badly enough to spend the > > > > > time day after day doing program is to no > > > > > longer be overshadowed. > > > > > > > > You aren't really. Its just a trick of the mind that you > believe > > > > the duality- that there is something external to you. Its a > common > > > > trick of the mind by the way; everyone falls for it at some > point ;) > > > > > > I know you mean it in the nicest possible way, > > > but Jim, I get REALLY REALLY tired of hearing > > > that kind of formulation. It isn't helpful or > > > inspiring. It's my working assumption on an > > > intellectual basis, but it doesn't undo the > > > trick. If it did, I'd have become un-overshadowed > > > many years ago. > > > > See? Attachment. > > Yup, attachment is the trick. For those still > subject to it, it has to be undone, seen through. > > But intellectualizing it doesn't in and of itself > undo the trick. Something *else* has to happen. > > It's like watching Doug Henning perform his > close-up magic. Intellectually you know it's > a trick, but that doesn't help you see through > it, because it's so well done. Something *else* > has to happen for you to perceive the trick. > > Using Barry's formulation, one could say that > you don't perceive Henning's trick because > you're attached to not perceiving it. > > And does understanding that you are attached > to not perceiving the trick help you perceive > the trick? No, something *else* has to happen. > > You can take it back as many levels as you like, > but still the bottom line is that something > *else* has to happen before you see through the > trick.
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