Dan/Thanks!!

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Hi Dan:

 

Always a pleasure communicating with you.

 

I value your insights and wisdom and am

humbled by the width and depth thereof.

 

My problem is the inner voice that comes

up many times after a choice is made to

tell me or show me how much of an

ignorant fool I am and which keeps me

humble and searching for the holy graile.

 

Namaste,

 

Michael

 

At 12:37 PM 6/14/2001, you wrote:

Hi Michael,

 

A response to your questions, for

whatever such response is worth

(or not worth ;-) :

 

Where does morality fit in with the

idea of " non-doership " ?

In my view, the idea is a " pointer " to the " reality

in which no doer can be assumed or negated.

 

If it's taken as an idea for a philosophy of

morality, then it's being used to " do

something " which is what is being

pointed to: this very tendency to

want to do, to want to get (an answer

to a question, a system of morality) ...

 

 

If I am not the doer

am I responsible for my choices?

Again, if the question seems to be

based on something (an " I " who can

have or not have responsibility) then

the reality to which is being pointed

may not be fully clear (apparently) ...

 

The idea is only useful as a pointer.

If there is still the sense of " a limited I-being "

who " sees, experiences, knows, thinks, and does "

....

then what the pointer points to, isn't fully clear

 

If I am not responsible for my

choices

will I make bad choices. By bad choices

I mean choices which result in suffering

for me or others.

The reality of no doer is clear, when

no doing entity is assumed nor negated.

 

If no doing entity is assumed or experienced

as if real, then one reacts spontaneously

and naturally (whatever course that takes)

to perceived suffering of self or others.

 

Can you trust spontaneity and your natural

being to react? Who is the entity that

stands aside from spontaneous and natural

being -- to try to decide whether or not

to trust, to determine whether such

being will lead to good or bad choices?

 

Peace,

Dan

 

 

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