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" To even one time mistake the moon for a finger is a million times

more costly than visa versa. "

 

Let's play pretend... (yeah right, as if we were doing something

else.)

 

Enlightenment is a finger pointing to the moon, and the MOON is a

place.

 

Now, I'll tell you where that place is, and if you can step ON that

place, you'll be enlightened... otherwise, you'll just keep walking

and walking and talking and talking, and mistaking the MOON for a

finger.

 

Are you ready to hear WHERE that place - Enlightenment - is?

 

Ok, stand up - are you standing?

It's right over there!

Now, go stand precisely >>right over there<< and I guarantee you -

money-back and all that - you'll be enlightened, THE enlightenment

the mystics of old were referring to, when he (ok, they, his

followers, and biographers) first pointed... over there...

 

Ain't the mind/brain fun on good days?

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Nisargadatta , " fmraerdy " <mybox234@b...> wrote:

>

> " To even one time mistake the moon for a finger is a million times

> more costly than visa versa. "

>

> Let's play pretend... (yeah right, as if we were doing something

> else.)

>

> Enlightenment is a finger pointing to the moon, and the MOON is a

> place.

>

> Now, I'll tell you where that place is, and if you can step ON that

> place, you'll be enlightened... otherwise, you'll just keep walking

> and walking and talking and talking, and mistaking the MOON for a

> finger.

>

> Are you ready to hear WHERE that place - Enlightenment - is?

>

> Ok, stand up - are you standing?

> It's right over there!

> Now, go stand precisely >>right over there<< and I guarantee you -

> money-back and all that - you'll be enlightened, THE enlightenment

> the mystics of old were referring to, when he (ok, they, his

> followers, and biographers) first pointed... over there...

>

> Ain't the mind/brain fun on good days?

 

No. For most people, not even on good days the mind/brain is good.

Think of thinking as an internal frantic search; painful, violent

even. Most people are identified with this sad and shoddy process -

while it appears to be large and powerful, in reality it only

emcompasses a small cemented fraction of reality.

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