Guest guest Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 > 1) Our Ideas are our prison. > > 2) Peddlers of holy ideas want to keep you in bondage by > making you believe in sin, heaven and hell. > > 3) Subverting religious ideas is my goal, so people > can rest in their sense of existing without conceptuality. > > 4) Resting in existing, one learns all is needed to know, > and one lives the spontaneous life. That is liberation. Not a bad list.. Pete's Four Noble Truths! I notice that you have " Ideas " in 1) capitalized. I take it that the significance of the capitalization is that it is our *precious* ideas that hem us in. Ideas in themselves are not signficant... they come and go. It's the one's that are latched onto as being *really good* ... no, even *The Truth*... those are the poison pills. And regarding 3): " Subverting religious ideas is my goal.. " I guess the only remedy for an obsessed mind is a well-aimed monkey-wrench! Certainly there is no *reasoning* with it. That's why they invented the koan. Nevertheless, monkey-wrenches *can* be aimed with the *guise* of reason... Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 Nisargadatta , " billrishel " <plexus@a...> wrote: > > > 1) Our Ideas are our prison. > > > > 2) Peddlers of holy ideas want to keep you in bondage by > > making you believe in sin, heaven and hell. > > > > 3) Subverting religious ideas is my goal, so people > > can rest in their sense of existing without conceptuality. > > > > 4) Resting in existing, one learns all is needed to know, > > and one lives the spontaneous life. That is liberation. > > Not a bad list.. > > Pete's Four Noble Truths! > > I notice that you have " Ideas " in 1) capitalized. > I take it that the significance of the capitalization > is that it is our *precious* ideas that hem us in. > Ideas in themselves are not signficant... they come > and go. It's the one's that are latched onto as being > *really good* ... no, even *The Truth*... those are > the poison pills. > > And regarding 3): > " Subverting religious ideas is my goal.. " > > I guess the only remedy for an obsessed mind is a > well-aimed monkey-wrench! Certainly there is no > *reasoning* with it. That's why they invented the > koan. > > Nevertheless, monkey-wrenches *can* be aimed with the > *guise* of reason... > > > Bill > (*_*) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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