Guest guest Posted November 3, 1999 Report Share Posted November 3, 1999 At 03:40 PM 11/3/99 +0100, you wrote: >mike dickman <cloudhand > >>Dan: Thanks for posting this, Mike. Since the entire ground has been >> covered, the only thing left to do is nothing. >> Doing nothing is a mystery. >> Speaking more of this only takes me further astray. >> -- with love >M: *On the contrary, my friend. All that is left to do now is everything. D: The doing of everything isn't a contrary to nondoing, as I see it. >M: And >if you can do everything as though you were doing nothing yet without ever >pulling away from it or imagining it was something other than yourself or >utterly pure, then you are getting towards the point. The ground - here >covered - is always there: it is the basic nature of anything that is even >vaguely sentient. The path, though, and the fruition - FOR ALL THE FACT >THAT THEY ARE EXACTLY THE SAME THING - are not... The former (the purifying >of perception) needs to be cultivated; the latter (perfect stability in, >upon and as openness, radiance and all-encompassing compassion) realised... >generally bit by bit... >But... yes... D: Thanks for sharing your point of view on this, Mike. Good luck with purifying perception. As for perfect stability being realized bit by bit - whatever can be realized bit by bit can never be perfect, only can be becoming better and better realized. Perfection, from my perspective, is the indescribable nothingness beyond is or isn't - simple nowness. >Thanks for responding. >m And nice to hear from you. Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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