But surely, Sarbarjit, your post is contaminated with the illusion of YOU-ness. As long as you are detached from him, you cannot propound anything ...... etc., right? You will never attain peace as long as you see Russ as a YOU.
Right? N -----Original Message----- From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Sarbajit Roy Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 12:13 AM To: russ.abb...@gmail.com; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] attachment Your post is contaminated/deluded by the repeated use of "I". As long as "you" are "attached" to your "I"-ness you cannot propound anything valid beyond the delusion of your "self". http://www.ourpathtogod.com/bhagavadgita/chapter2.html "One who abandons all desires, and becomes free from longing and the feeling of 'I' and 'my', attains peace. (2.71) O Arjuna, this is the super-conscious state of mind. Attaining this state, one is no longer deluded. Gaining this state, even at the end of one's life, a person becomes one with the Absolute. (2.72)." Sarbajit On 10/2/12, Russ Abbott <russ.abb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I liked my post on attachment. (Perhaps I'm attached to it.) Did it > get lost? I don't see it in any of the follow-up posts. Here it is again. > > Think of attachment as: I must ensure that X comes to pass. I want it > so badly. > Think of detachment as: I must not want so badly that X comes to pass. > I must stay detached. > Think of non-attachment as: I may participate in the process whereby X > comes to pass -- or doesn't come to pass. If I participate I may be > fully engaged. I may care very much whether X comes to pass. It it > does, I may feel very happy. If it doesn't I may feel very sad. But > whether or not X comes to pass I still have my laundry to do. > > > *-- Russ Abbott* > *_____________________________________________* > *** Professor, Computer Science* > * California State University, Los Angeles* > > * My paper on how the Fed can fix the economy: > ssrn.com/abstract=1977688* > * Google voice: 747-*999-5105 > Google+: plus.google.com/114865618166480775623/ > * vita: *sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ > CS Wiki <http://cs.calstatela.edu/wiki/> and the courses I teach > *_____________________________________________* > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
