Emptiness/nondualism that denys dualism is false/wierd, crazy fusion

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> > > yes

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> > > the true stillness is the stillness that obtains

> > > *within the fire*.

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> > > the nondualism that denys dualism is false.

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> > > the nondualism that transcends dualism is true.

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> > > Bill

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> > I don`t know why but I feel prompted to add :

> > as long as one wants to gain, obtain,

> > one`s is only going to obtain more time,

> > more suffering, more karma.

> >

> > Patricia

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> Yes, I have pondered that paradox myself. At what point is one

> seeking, at what point giving up the search, at what point giving up

> the search in order to proceed with the search, but from another

> angle? Only poets and Jesuits would attempt an answer.

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> But for me, it is very clearly a question of What I want to gain. Is

> it an object, an objective, a spirit or a permanent state? Again,

> these terms are open for debate. But my answer has always been,

> dedication to a particular process I would call thriving, for the

> moment, a panoply of other names for my journal.

>

> I find that I do, indeed, become what I focus on. My focus on being

> freedom yields freedom, love yields love, witnessing, witnessing. For

> me, mantras do, have, and continue to, work.

 

and so then, what is interesting -- from my view -- is to

dissolve focus altogether... let focus get totally soft and to

totally expand... so that focus encompasses all there is.

And so the observer, the witness is as a melted goo folded back

into the batter of Life. The witness has lost its distinction

as witness because focus is no longer defining a 'that' vs. 'this'.

 

In other words, I love to let the witness dissolve through its

own process of witnessing... back into the murky primal beginnings

from which it arose.

 

When I was quite young and had a chance to play with a TV camera

I found delight in pointing the camera into the monitor. Much fun!

I love to loop things back into themselves so that they undergo

wierd, crazy fusions. I like to break the rules, undercut the ground,

push the system to a kind of melt-down.

 

Bill

 

 

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> Sorry, but no paradox here. Although I do believe paradox does have

> it's crucial place in this realm. Where to find it, well, that might

> have to be, itself, a paradoxical.

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> warmth

> ~*~

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