The Most Rapid And Direct Means To Eternal Bliss

[Guest guest]

(You can buy this book, or read it for free online.)

 

Here's my favorite line:

 

Chapter Eight

 

44. At first it is subtle and you won't know what it

is, but you will know that you like it.

 

 

I think

volumes could be written about that line. Because I think that,

living in panic culture, we are taught, over and over again, to ignore

or crush subtlety. And what is that moment of awareness of subtlety?

It's a trace of serenity and perspective. And it is marginalized by

the imposition of our enslavement. It's condemned as ambiguous. And

it is, precisely, ambiguity that is dreaded by panic culture, which

only values crude gender, political, financial, etc., polarization.

Even art, science and religion are colonized by extremist

polarization. It isn't enough to dabble in any of these fields. One

must be totally committed to them, in order to " matter. " Thus, we are

categorized by our sexual activity, as if this even began to cover

" who we are. " One is coerced into the procrustean bed of either gay,

straight or bi, married, single, divorced. And people buy it, loudly

proclaiming one or another 'identity.'

 

What do

you think? (Whenever somebody asks me to state my allegiance, I think

I'll say, " subtle. " )

[Guest guest]

Nisargadatta , " skywhilds " <skywords wrote:

>

> (You can buy this book, or read it for free online.)

>

> Here's my favorite line:

>

> Chapter Eight

>

> 44. At first it is subtle and you won't know what it

> is, but you will know that you like it.

>

>

> I think

> volumes could be written about that line. Because I think that,

> living in panic culture, we are taught, over and over again, to ignore

> or crush subtlety. And what is that moment of awareness of subtlety?

> It's a trace of serenity and perspective. And it is marginalized by

> the imposition of our enslavement. It's condemned as ambiguous. And

> it is, precisely, ambiguity that is dreaded by panic culture, which

> only values crude gender, political, financial, etc., polarization.

> Even art, science and religion are colonized by extremist

> polarization. It isn't enough to dabble in any of these fields. One

> must be totally committed to them, in order to " matter. " Thus, we are

> categorized by our sexual activity, as if this even began to cover

> " who we are. " One is coerced into the procrustean bed of either gay,

> straight or bi, married, single, divorced. And people buy it, loudly

> proclaiming one or another 'identity.'

>

> What do

> you think? (Whenever somebody asks me to state my allegiance, I think

> I'll say, " subtle. " )

 

 

 

 

no matter how many times hammer down on:

 

" i am subtle and suave " ..as your anthem...

 

you look like a phony doing so.

 

unless it's the subtlety of pernicious self deceit you speak of here.

 

 

..b b.b.