If you meet a sage on the road, kill him / Toombaru

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Nisargadatta , " toombaru2004 " <cptc@w...>

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> Latent...within the human psyche is the smoldering belief that

someone or something can help it from its illusory prison.....

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> Every prison.....it assumes.....has something outside...some hoped

for freedom.....just outside of the prison walls........

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> What if that is simply not true?

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> What if the prison is all....that is?

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> toombaru

 

Indeed.

 

I am the prison from which I am trying to escape.

 

My various strategies (for security, avoidance,

refuge, to find an ideal) are all that constitute

" me " --

 

I am the tensioning of the escape attempts, the pretenses

at having security, having everything be fine, or getting

to someplace where everything will be fine.

 

The " me " of my identity, is only what can be constituted

around the activity of avoidance, separation --

a conglomeration of feelings, memory images, ideals,

actions, hopes, fears held together only by the perceived need

to hold together as self (based on neurological

programming and social reinforcement).

 

-- Dan