from balls to bone (A True Teancher and Teaching

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> > > I guess it takes courage or mindlessness to be free.

> > > But then, we're free already so who needs courage or a mind?

> >

> >

> >

> > Correct

>

> Being correct has nothing to do with freedom.

>

> Saying that everyone is free from the beginning is just an idea

> overheard -- a repetition of gossip. (unless one knows one's being

> " prior to conditions " -- and fully within and as conditions: " from

> balls to bone " as the Oracle said to Neo.)

>

> True, this is not a personal possession, and doesn't depend on

> personally acquired qualities like courage or an imaginary mind of

> one's own.

>

> Yet, apart from your personal being as it is right now, there is no

> way to know this as is (not from an outside position).

>

> It's not by getting rid of one's personal being that truth is

> understood -- so back one comes to courage, commitment, and

> responsibility -- just no imputation of a separable being that does

> those things!

>

> -- Dan

>

 

" Saying that everyone is free from the beginning is just an idea... "

 

well said

 

while freedom is our very nature

ironically

it must be earned

 

the shedding of aeons of baggage

is not at the snap of a finger

 

Meher Baba said (paraphrase):

I am God and you are God.

The difference is that I know it

and you don't.

 

substitute 'free' for 'God', and

you get my point that while we

are free inherently, *real freedom*

is in actually KNOWING that in a deep,

" from balls to bone " kind of way.

 

the existential struggle in which

freedom is not is a miring in words,

and words will not dispel it.

 

something much stronger is needed to

cut that grease.

 

Nisargadatta spoke of earnestness and

intensity.

 

Whether those are sufficient conditions,

certainly they are necessary.

 

 

Bill