Guest guest Posted October 23, 2002 Report Share Posted October 23, 2002 According to P.Brunton: "It is a useful elementary and preparatory exercise in learning detachment from one's own ego, to try to project it into someone else's from time to time. By imaginatively sharing in another's life and mind, situations and surroundings, so far as one can, by putting oneself into the point of evolution where the other stands, one gains more facility in extracting oneself from the inveterate self-centeredness of the ordinary man. It is a kind of mental histrionics, a play-acting which substitutes one kind of egoism for another and in the process loosens the replaced kind. For such a special exercise, it wuld be still more profitable to select somebody with whom one is normally unsympathetic, perhaps even an opponent or enemy. Other valuable qualities will then receive a stimulus. There is of course a dager in such a masquerade, the danger of becoming neurotically unstable to which so many actors and actressess are are exposed. It can be avoided by practising both personalities in revert self-identification with the Overself. Ok, I'm game. Here goes: "When you've finished playing several hands of spiritual pinocle.When you're tire of pulling on that one-handed bandit at the Big Enlightenment Casino in Lost Vegas---and you can't convert those Lemons to Lemonade. Maybe just maybe you've reached the End of your Rope. Sorry we don't have a revolving door policy for Neurotics, bandwagoners, Yes-men, fencesitters, The Emotional Deranged, Kit fliers or Cry-babies." om shanti corneliushttp://www./groups/eternal_now Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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