Guest guest Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 Nisargadatta , " dan330033 " <dan330033 wrote: > > Nisargadatta , " toombaru2006 " <lastrain@> wrote: > > > > Nisargadatta , " stuartkfmn " <stuartkfmn@> wrote: > > > > > > If spirituality is used as a tool to avoid and escape than it can > > > become an addiction and seen as ugly... > > > > > > Stuart > > > > > > > > By whom? > > > > There is no entity separate from its beliefs. > > > > > > toombaru > > There doesn't have to be an entity doing it, in order for an attempt > to escape to occur, or for addiction to occur. > > The intellectual idea that there is no entity to do anything doesn't > really amount to very much, and can itself be addictive. > > -- Dan > " There doesn't have to be an entity doing it, in order for an attempt to escape to occur, or for addiction to occur. " so very true, and so very very hard for many to see. there is a belief-complex (or so it seems) that seems to wind around the " little insight " about there being " no entity " ... and *everything* starts being cast in terms of that " little insight " ... and that belief-complex develops a granite shell that can see little else except as in its particular terms. Indeed, it can be appropriately labeled: Nondual Fundamentalism Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 Nisargadatta , " pliantheart " <illusyn wrote: > " There doesn't have to be an entity doing it, in order for > an attempt to escape to occur, or for addiction to occur. " > > so very true, and so very very hard for many to see. > > there is a belief-complex (or so it seems) that seems > to wind around the " little insight " about there being > " no entity " ... and *everything* starts being cast in > terms of that " little insight " ... > > and that belief-complex develops a granite shell that > can see little else except as in its particular terms. > > Indeed, it can be appropriately labeled: Nondual Fundamentalism > > > Bill Yes, that label could work. While we're offering labels, here's another: The Circular Nondual Deflective Shield that Doesn't Exist -- for the Entity That Never Was. It sounds like one of those weapons that a character can pick up in a game like Dungeons and Dragons -- probably a very useful weapon at the higher levels of the game ... ;-) -- D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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