re desire and being (let's use the word "both" to mean "both" again)

[Guest guest]

"For example, my mother has been a cancer care nurse for 25 years,

and

has described many cases where a patient, told by a

doctor "there's

nothing more we can do for you," will quietly lay down

and "pass on"

a few hours or even minutes afterwards."

 

The converse it true: Those who did not believe what

the doctor said,

have lived many years after the doctor said they would.

 

Hi Guys,

 

What I wonder is can both be accomplished? (Letting go of desires, but

accepting life here as it is?) I think this is what I am struggling to

accept. (this is why I'm even remotely thinking of getting a second

Ph.D. - so I can be my own paradox.) I guess desiring surrender and

surrender are not identical. still scratching my head. probably just

dandruff.

 

Love, Mark

[Guest guest]

dear mark....this is very journey mira has taken me on.....returning me from

nothing to ground me in something.....the question of transient love and

divine love united in one love.....the lover and the beloved as one.....it

is a sweet paradox within a paradox ever unfolding into paradox......to

follow jesus is 'to be in the world and not of the world'....to follow zen

it is to become a bodhisattva....to follow advaita it is to practrice

trantric yoga it seems to me.....many paths, one way.......^^~~~~~

 

further up and further in,

 

white wolfe

 

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Mark W. Otter <mark.otter

harsha <>

Monday, June 18, 2001 7:02 AM

re desire and being (let's use the word "both" to

mean "both" again)

 

> "For example, my mother has been a cancer care nurse for 25 years,

> and

> has described many cases where a patient, told by a

> doctor "there's

> nothing more we can do for you," will quietly lay down

> and "pass on"

> a few hours or even minutes afterwards."

>

> The converse it true: Those who did not believe what

> the doctor said,

> have lived many years after the doctor said they would.

>

> Hi Guys,

>

> What I wonder is can both be accomplished? (Letting go of desires, but

> accepting life here as it is?) I think this is what I am struggling to

> accept. (this is why I'm even remotely thinking of getting a second

> Ph.D. - so I can be my own paradox.) I guess desiring surrender and

> surrender are not identical. still scratching my head. probably just

> dandruff.

>

> Love, Mark

>

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>

> /join

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> All paths go somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, sights,

perceptions, and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and subside

back into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not different than

the ocean, all things arising from Awareness are of the nature of Awareness.

Awareness does not come and go but is always Present. It is Home. Home is

where the Heart Is. Jnanis know the Heart to be the Finality of Eternal

Being. A true devotee relishes in the Truth of Self-Knowledge, spontaneously

arising from within into It Self. Welcome all to a.

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