Guest guest Posted May 31, 2008 Report Share Posted May 31, 2008 Nisargadatta , " toombaru2006 " <lastrain wrote: Conceptual mind and the resulting sense of self evolved because they help the organism > survive. > > The I am helps the organism subsist by using its past experiences and applying what it has > learned to its imaginary future. > > Its design functions to constantly strive for better living conditions and no matter how > good it has it.....it operates in the " always more " mode. > > It is never satiated....It is never happy for long. > > The design function of constantly striving is carried over into its imaginary spiritual realm > where it strives for a bigger and better self that it hopes to become. > > It puts itself through a regime of denying and restricting its natural urges to appease an > imaginary God.......it imagines a higher form of consciousness that it can attain and > hopefully live in a much bigger and safer bubble....It pushes itself ever onward into what is > imagined to be its own future perfection. > > It will slovenly follow anybody that promises a key to doors that do not exist. > > It will devote its life to mulling over the words of long dead people.....hoping to find the > right combination that will open the doors to a place where it can be free of the constant > nagging tension of fear. > > It will sit for hours.....trying to still itself.....so that it can enter into a state of imagined > peace. > > It will eat only vegetables.......because it has been told that that will somehow help it in its > journey home. > > It is a mind whose function is to feather its own nest........and it does that 24/7 in its > physical and imaginary spiritual realms. > > In its frantic search.....it misses entirely the simple joy of just being. > > Thank goodness that it dies with the body. > > > > > toombaru > A monumental confession of life in darkness, and a beautifully crafted and rooted believe system of past experiences, which is continuously confirmed by only remembering the suffering part of life. Like repeated posts as the above... Just eat your orange without trying to find out why it is so nice...ToomTolle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 31, 2008 Report Share Posted May 31, 2008 > > A monumental confession of life in darkness, and a beautifully > crafted and rooted believe system of past experiences, which is > continuously confirmed by only remembering the suffering part of > life. Like repeated posts as the above... > > Just eat your orange without trying to find out why it is so > nice...ToomTolle > When the allied forces swept through Europe and liberated the concentration camps...a few of the prisoners....refused their freedom. It seems they believed that they looked good in stripes. Go figure. :-0 toombaru Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 31, 2008 Report Share Posted May 31, 2008 Nisargadatta , " toombaru2006 " <lastrain wrote: > > > > > > A monumental confession of life in darkness, and a beautifully > > crafted and rooted believe system of past experiences, which is > > continuously confirmed by only remembering the suffering part of > > life. Like repeated posts as the above... > > > > Just eat your orange without trying to find out why it is so > > nice...ToomTolle > > > > > > > When the allied forces swept through Europe and liberated the concentration > camps...a > few of the prisoners....refused their freedom. > > It seems they believed that they looked good in stripes. > > > > Go figure. > > :-0 > > > > > toombaru > Only a frog in a well can tell such comparisons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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