On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:51 AM, ERIC P. CHARLES <e...@psu.edu> wrote:
To connect this with the other thread, and Rich's eloquent statement, the > transcendent person is LESS complicated than the average person. They have > let go of unnecessary complications. When you "accept everyone" and "let > them all the way in" you are actually doing LESS than an average person, who > judges and discriminates each person, and must regulate exactly how much to > let each one in. > But I would say exactly the opposite, though I wonder if "exact" and "opposite" are really appropriate words. The person who lets thoughts come and go without grasping at them experiences more thoughts and more varieties of thoughts than the person who grabs at thoughts and worries them to exhaustion. Investing awareness in determining the correctness of passing thoughts or the appropriateness of openness simplifies the stream of consciousness by reducing its scope. -- rec --
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