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want them
taunt them
nurture and employ them
ignore them
adore them
imagine and destroy them
*
the concept of "others"
is no good reason
to make an "i"

Bob Rose meditationsocietyofamerica

Ya know, I think that sometimes people have a realization that there
is nothing "real" about the ego persona they have developed over the
years, and stop there, and just look at things and just see same ol,
same ol. You know that Zen thing that goes "First there is a
mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is." Well, these type
"realizers" have something like "There's a mountain." And that's
where they stop. And they may tend to just insist that "Hey - wake up
- there's just a mountain here. Nothing else. No God, no bliss, no
yada,yada,yada." And almost all of these mountaineers tend to think
that their experience is the only "real One", and that everybody else
is on the wrong path. Unlike "unrealized" people who may see a
mountain, and then go through many inner gymnastics like labeling
things about the mountain, figuring out how the mountain may benefit
or harm them, remembering things about previously known mountains,
projecting how mountains may affect them in the future, and on and
on.
Then we have the Enlightened people. They see the mountain, and then
there is no mountain...as it disappears and it's real essence, the
same eternal essence of everything and everyone everywhere presents
itself...Then they see the mountain. And they may point to the
mountain and say "Keep looking. There's more to it than stones." And
they radiate the bliss they experience, knowing the loving essence
that they and the mountain and everything are at one with. And then
there are the people who are so unattached to an individual ego and
so identified with the essence that that's all their experience is.
Often can't or don't even talk about, move about, feel about It. And
sometimes it's part of our fate, karma, "Thy will be done"
demonstrated right before our eyes nature to act, react, interact
with all of them. And then, having benefited in whatever way the
universe intended us to, go on to the next experience of life.

Brother Void salon.com

"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."
-- Jean-Paul Sartre

From the beginning you are the victim of circumstance. You're born, kicking and screaming, into an
unknown family. As a child, you soak up influences that mold your mind in certain ways. When you
finally get a drivers' license and move out of the house, you think you're free -- but you marry
someone who looks like your mother and drinks like your father. By the time you figure out who you
are or what you want, a life has already been forced upon you. But it's never too late to change.
Although you can't begin again from scratch, you can make a splendid ragout from the mishmash of
damaged goods in your cupboard.

I choose how to live a life I didn't choose.

Krishnamurti www.kfa.org/bookoflife_sep.htmhttp://www.kfa.org/bookoflife_sep.htm (link may no longer be working.)

September 7

The unguarded intellect
You can know yourself only when you are unaware, when you are not calculating, not protecting, not
constantly watching to guide, to transform, to subdue, to control; when you see yourself
unexpectedly, that is, when the mind has no preconceptions with regard to itself, when the mind is
open, unprepared to meet the unknown.

If your mind is prepared, surely you cannot know the unknown, for you are the unknown. If you say to
yourself, "I am God", or "I am nothing but a mass of social influences or a bundle of qualities" — if you
have any preconception of yourself, you cannot comprehend the unknown, that which is spontaneous.

So spontaneity can come only when the intellect is unguarded, when it is not protecting itself, when it
is no longer afraid for itself; and this can happen only from within. That is, the spontaneous must be
the new, the unknown, the incalculable, the creative, that which must be expressed, loved, in which
the will as the process of intellect, controlling, directing, has no part. Observe your own emotional
states and you will see that the moments of great joy, great ecstasy, are unpremeditated; they happen,
mysteriously, darkly, unknowingly.