Guest guest Posted March 27, 2006 Report Share Posted March 27, 2006 In a message dated 3/27/2006 11:14:25 AM Pacific Standard Time, silver-1069 writes: > > When you " recognize it as unreal " , it´s gone. > If it isn´t gone you didn´t recognize it as unreal. > True? > > len > > ;-) > > " Silver " > > L.E: The problems is, if the sense of I or you is unreal, how can it distinguish the real from the unreal? Usually the human organism can recognize food from not food, red from green, unless colorblind, hot from cold, but real from unreal. Hmmmm! Are you really positive about that or are you just guessing? Your comment is too general. There are to many real and unreal situations, thughts, feelings. etc. Example/simple. Looks like an airplane, turns out to be a bird. Looks like a bird. Turns out to be an airplane. I thought she was my friend, but she betrayed me. I always wanted to be a doctor and now that I am, I can't stand it. I loved her once, but it wasn't real. etc. Larry Epston Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 27, 2006 Report Share Posted March 27, 2006 Nisargadatta , epston wrote: > > In a message dated 3/27/2006 11:14:25 AM Pacific Standard Time, > silver-1069 writes: > > > > > When you " recognize it as unreal " , it´s gone. > > If it isn´t gone you didn´t recognize it as unreal. > > True? > > > > len > > > > ;-) > > > > " Silver " > > > > L.E: The problems is, if the sense of I or you is unreal, how can it > distinguish the real from the unreal? *****It can't. Two unreals don't equal a real. 0 + 0 = 0 Usually the human organism can recognize food > from not food, red from green, unless colorblind, hot from cold, but real from > unreal. Hmmmm! Are you really positive about that or are you just guessing? > Your comment is too general. **I didn't make that comment. Len did. I copied it as a reply to Len's remark about divinity in suffering. If it's not real, as he said, then neither is the world or life in general because life is suffering at its core. To see the beauty in suffering is to see the beauty in life as it is. Some things like torture and and all the ugly horrific crimes and war torn lands, and children who's limbs have been severed from them by stepping on a bomb or who's parents have been massacred and such really don't make me feel good about being alive if I think about those things too much. So like most people, I repress one side of life and try to focus only on what I find uplifting and positive and beatiful and truly so-called divine in life instead. I don't even read newspapers or watch the news anymore because I can't handle the depression that comes to me from it. sad but true. I don't like violence and gore and stuff. It makes me sad. Call me unenlightened if you want but that's just the way I am. I don't see beaty in all of life just because it's Life. I see alot of undivine and ugliness in it too. And I'm part of it. As a part of it I try to lessen it for myself and for others by applying the rule that says if it doesn't harm, then do it. Pretty challenging to live it to its logical conclusion if you really think about it. There are to many real and unreal situations, > thughts, feelings. etc. Example/simple. Looks like an airplane, turns out to > be a bird. Looks like a bird. Turns out to be an airplane. I thought she > was my friend, but she betrayed me. I always wanted to be a doctor and now that > I am, I can't stand it. I loved her once, but it wasn't real. etc. > > Larry Epston > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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