Guest guest Posted June 13, 2000 Report Share Posted June 13, 2000 On Wed, 31 May 2000 11:33:18 Paul Misiunas wrote: >The trouble with baggage is that it always seems to want to get somewhere. >And when it gets there, "greatness" is felt, but the final destination >remains elusive as ever. Without baggage, how else are we to know that we >are going somewhere. I really agree with this, Paul. (sorry for this very late reply, I just found this exchange irresistable ) I find the baggage thing a bit sad too, to think or believe we have to carry around with this, but I do have a definite feeling, the baggage may not really be ours, after all. Just a part of Us and at the same time not reallu part of Us too. >This is great. I'd have the students bypass the extensive learning of other >schools of thought and just debate each side of a topic with conviction. >After a clear looser and winner is determined, I'd then have them reverse >roles. A few times of this would be enough for anyone to realize that any >debate is merely an exchange of words, nothing else. Well... that's _my_ >opinion! :-)) I've seen more and more of that lately. I used to trust logic and logical discussion, but like you discovered logic and pure intellectual exercises need not necessarily be more true or less directed by emotions or less subjective..... Like you say: >Knowledge isn't Truth and a debate is only a demonstration of knowledge. As >for me, well, I'd rather sit here on my pulpit and preach to my computer >screen. That is, of course, when I am not lighting candles and chanting the >holy words in deep respect for the Computer. Someday, I am hoping that it >will grant me Serenity of Eyestrain. Either that or provide deep, deep >insightful, esoteric scribblings on the Screen of Death granting me the >choice of Enlightenment or of using the "power off" button... LOLOL ! Let me have the power off option. I revere my comp too, to the extent I hope to some day be One with it, and I think I can do it too. >If so, our individual nature would be an accumulation of what we have >"learned" in the past. Sometimes, I just don't enjoy remembering what the >heck I had for dinner, or why I would even care. Be here now!. Oh, is that >the dinner bell.... > >"Leftovers" is a good way to describe it, Amanda. >Baggage on a trip to nowhere. >Leftovers of a meal that never ends. I wanted to reply to this, b/c Rob Sacks, a member of the Satsangh has written somewhere very much on the spot that his personal yoga speciality is Pizza Yoga: The art of consuming a pizza as fast as possible w/out noticing its flavors at all. I suppose that's all we have to do, perform Pizza Yoga until the Pizza devours us and we can see there was no true boundary b/n the Pizza and ourselves. With love and deep Pizzaness, Amanda. Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 13, 2000 Report Share Posted June 13, 2000 Cheese! (sorry, couldn't resist...) Love, Mark mumble cat wrote: > I suppose that's all we have to do, perform > Pizza Yoga until the Pizza devours us > and we can see there was no true boundary > b/n the Pizza and ourselves. > > > With love and deep Pizzaness, > > Amanda. > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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