--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" <rorygoff@...> wrote: > > "RoryGoff" <rorygoff@> wrote: > > > > > > This brings up another interesting point. I find that it > > > is not our thoughts themselves about what apparently IS > > > that create our suffering; it is our subtler resistance > > > to them. > > > > turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > Bingo. > > > > As some hack playwright once said, "For there > > is nothing either good or bad, but thinking > > makes it so." > > * * * True that! -- and I find even thinking something is > "bad" is OK, as long as we give it the complete freedom to > BE "bad" in Us.
That's a delight that I think many here are missing out on. Curtis has pointed out in the past that he is able to poke fun at some of the...uh...oddities of the TM movement because in doing so he's poking fun at *himself*, too. Dude's been there, done that, and is *aware* of it, so how can he not laugh at himself when pointing out behavior he once indulged in? Needless to say, I feel exactly the same way. I was as much of a TB in public as anyone in the history of FFL ( well, maybe not as bad as Nabby :-). But I got over it. Now when I laugh at TB excesses in others, I'm laughing at them in myself as well. Now these days I'm not much of a TB about much of anything. It's all POV as far as I can tell, and I've got thousands of POVs, none better than the rest as far as I can tell. That, I think, is why those who occationally try to taunt me into replying to them or to entering into some long discussion with them by dissing or poking fun at what I believe in don't succeed much. I don't believe in much of *anything* strongly enough to have anything that someone else believes about it push my buttons. Whatever they say, whatever I say, it's all just another line of bullshit drawn on water. :-) > As some hack Messiah said, "Resist not evil" ... > Unconditional love liberates unconditionally, or > "The Truth shall set us free" :-) I wouldn't go that far. For example, if a big drunk guy in a bar picks up a beer bottle and advances on me with it, I would definitely not consider him "evil." Thinking that would just waste time, and I'd be busy looking behind the bar for a big honkin' baseball bat. The Louisville Slugger shall set you free. :-)
