Guest guest Posted August 30, 2007 Report Share Posted August 30, 2007 Ha! Good morning Werner, ahhh yes... the ideals. You are right, and moreover those are my own ideals because I hate it to feel like a stupid little child. Nisargadatta has said: " Freedom from the ego-self is the fruit of self-enquiry. " Seems I still believe in self-inquiry and freedom? Sometimes it is forgotten that there was nothing to be inquired and nobody to be freed... Same ol' ego after all... :-/ Stefan Nisargadatta , " Werner Woehr " <wwoehr wrote: > Hi Stefan, > > Those guys already are grown ups. But it seems that you own an ideal > how a grown up should act like and look like. > > One's personal past already started intrauterine and built up > more and more layers of stored experiences, hurts and their defenses, > humiliations and their compensations, self-defenses and their way of > fighting, likes and dislikes, the cunning survival strategies > reflected in greed, ambition and vanity, etc, etc. And many more ... > > To demand to grow up from a person who's childhood at the moment got > active, is in vain. No one can decondition him or herself and to be > different than one actually is. > > Btw, good that you are here, Stefan. > > Werner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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