Dialogue opens the mind

November 17, 2004

Alton and Dipamkara,I enjoy your dialogue. Dialogue opens the mind. It's effect it on the soulis directly related to the message.Alton, your parodies are entertaining.Dipamkara, thanks for the attachments.Namaste... MikeThanks Mike:

I love sharing kinds of dialogues best.

I will share some things about my quest in hopes that you and other will do likewise.

I am one of the lame not gifted meditators with a very stong desire to blow away the discursive talking to oneself all day long mind. I put in many hours over the past 30 years and have to say I still do talk to myself.

Now I am not at all disheartened by my failures because my desire is getting stronger and stronger and my energy for practice is also very high. If I can train I know it will happen sooner or later. What I learned is not to place any time limit on it. If it take 100 million more lifetimes that is ok with me. All I want to do is train because of my core belief of "with training you can do anything as per Nisargadatta.

I am not into Enlightenment, heaven etc. I believe that this is just a technical training thing.

My worse suffering over the years was trying to be a vegetarian. I continually make attempts and this last time it lasted almost 2 years eating eggs. Eggs dont work for me so I finally quit. I dont have the right DNA to be a vegetarian but the next time I will try it with Steroids. Charan Singh one of my former Masters said do anything even take medicines.

I am crazy for not killing animals to survive on but when I see the hand writing on the wall saying you are about to be sick I stop. I have investigated every possible diet and tried them in combination many times. The macrobiotic one is the only one I have had any success at.

Ok do you want to share some things about you quest. This is for anyone who cares to share also.

Feedback from anyone is welcomed.

Love,

Alton aka KK