No Barriers

[Guest guest]

Ah Mace, you are saying it...

>>> Nothing can keep one from being ordinary.<<<

 

'No-thing' indeed keeps us from the ordinary...

 

a

thing

indeed

 

ordinarily

and

simply

things

hold

the

present

in

the

moment

 

It is the 'no-things' that are 'trying' though...

 

What then makes things appear extra-ordinary?

What then turns things into no-things?

 

What extra-ordinary attitude is it then, that once lead us astray?

 

The attitude of attributing?

 

'Attributes' then knock us from the present?

 

Is that what JC meant by "Consider the lilies of the field?"

 

Could the attribute of 'aliveness' be the problem?

 

Did we go astray then

the very moment

when we distinguished

aliveness

to be different from

thingness?

 

Is it the conceptual distinction between 'alive and not alive' then, that

put a scratch through reality?

 

Am I starting to get it?

 

thingness?

suchness?

 

thingness

suchness

 

really?

 

really

 

Wim

 

PS

'real'

relating to 'things'

Latin 'realis'

'res' thing

Sanskrit 'rayi'

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[Guest guest]

Zenbob wrote:

>>> JC originally *wrote*, "Consider the sillies of the field." <<<

Hey zenbob, appreciated, :-)))

But if JC wrote anything at all, he may have scratched the above in

the sand, but I bet you, he knew he was only scratching the surface.

Wim

[Guest guest]

Nothing can keep one from being ordinary.

Bereft of uncommon attributes,

a being of simple disposition,

unacquainted with the extremes of

constant longing.

Without ambition in the appreciation

of the gross and subtle distinctions

of the illusion of greatness.

Unattached to the vagaries

of empty achievement.

Devoid of the predilection

of self righteous judgment.

At home with the evaporation

of countless misconceptions.

Truly alive and aware

in the ever changing

state of being.

At play with the dynamic

presence of existence.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Nothing can keep one from being ordinary.

Bereft of uncommon attributes,

a being of simple disposition,

unacquainted with the extremes of

constant longing.

Without ambition in the appreciation

of the gross and subtle distinctions

of the illusion of greatness.

Unattached to the vagaries

of empty achievement.

Devoid of the predilection

of self righteous judgment.

At home with the evaporation

of countless misconceptions.

Truly alive and aware

in the ever changing

state of being.

At play with the dynamic

presence of existence.

Can I frame this?

Love,

Zenbob

[Guest guest]

Is that what JC meant by "Consider the lilies of the field?"

Ah, I think that was a typo in the original Gutenberg. JC originally

wrote, "Consider the sillies of the field."

This alters the whole thing. It suggests that JC was actually a

Sufi...and believed in the Wisdom of Idiots...

Wait, I might be wrong...I am on a new medication today...

Hugs,

Zenbob

[Guest guest]

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