[melanie]

Originally Posted by Mikal Were those Wayne Liquorman's thoughts or your thoughts...I believe nothing and I examine and question all things... In my life which you are not in Melanie...as I am not in yours...there is a "me"...there is the "other"...there could be no relationship without that...there is shame to spare dear...it is how we wound one another without "knowing"... "there is no-one to become enlightened..."it is one who "knows" who is enlightened.. Wayne Liquorman would not be in my life either as I am not in his life... peace Mikal

From the perspective of 'mikal' or the perspective of 'wayne' each the same one self dreaming differences where there are none.
Each character a Self-Unique interpretation Of the same Self-Source.
Like a single house and a single light shining from all windows.
Ever unchanging manifesting the illusion of difference.
No-body/mind organism 'knows' yet it is one with the knowing.
Who the knower is no-one knows?

peace.
m.

[Mikal]

Melanie dear....a great tragedy in life taught me not to quibble or quarrel over the small stuff...it is a terrible waste of precious energy..."I save all my energy for the big stuff" dear...this is small stuff...the big stuff lies out there in life...

peace Mikal

[Tina]

Originally Posted by Profpat Hi Mikal; The Buddhist philosophy is that an action is OK and a reaction to that action is OK, but then stop. NO REACTION TO THAT REACTION. That is where the trouble starts. "For Every Action There Is An Equal But Opposite Reaction." Best to you, Pat

I can see how this would work......but I'm trying to refine a "It's not worth it" thinking to counter that urge to react....it's enough to dissipate the anger......sometimes

[MJA]

Did someone say Buddha?
"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it." - Buddha

Equality is for the good and benefit of one and all.

=
MJA

[Tina]

Originally Posted by Mikal The Prayer Of Brotherhood We shall go You in your way And I in mine I shall love you and your way And you shall love me, and mine We shall be strong this way For no man.. Seeing our separateness Shall ever break our togetherness (Author Unknown) thirst for life..it is a gift...laugh and love...it is life... Peace Mikal

This prayer reads like a signpost to Peace........

[melanie]

Originally Posted by Mikal Melanie dear....a great tragedy in life taught me not to quibble or quarrel over the small stuff...it is a terrible waste of precious energy..."I save all my energy for the big stuff" dear...this is small stuff...the big stuff lies out there in life... peace Mikal

The fact that there is the assumption of ''small stuff' and ''big stuff'' is pure fantasy.

If you want to be effective in the world cut to the chase by doing nothing to achieve more. Go straight to the heart of all knowledge.
That starts with ''YOU''
There is no ''out there'' to fix only ''apparently''
Take the short cut to ''universal understanding'' it will save your precious energy.
Non Duality: The one question to all our answers.

Don't make sense, don't question, study the real truth and you will master all things.
Why take the long way home, when you can realize you are already home.

(or you could completely ignore me if you want, i'm only trying to help)
( i am not up for quibbling, i'm useless at it, you can ignore me)
(or you could read without judging or making comments, just digest without responding, maybe it will resonate with you, who knows? )



peace.
m.

[Mikal]

I believe nothing...question and examine everything that comes before me...it is the Middle Way....the path to Wisdom and the right to own your own mind to think your own thoughts....smiles...beliefs become rigid...wondering becomes wonder about life..

peace Mikal

[Mikal]

I "fixed me"....first..........you must fix yourself...."heal thyself"....then you have eyes to see that the barriers "out there" can be gotten through, crawled under, gone over or gone through...

I am already home...dear

peace Mikal

[melanie]

Originally Posted by Mikal I "fixed me"....first..........you must fix yourself...."heal thyself"....then you have eyes to see that the barriers "out there" can be gotten through, crawled under, gone over or gone through... I am already home...dear peace Mikal

That's good news then.

[Drifter]

Originally Posted by melanie Mikal there is no 'you' to spare shame to an-'other' There is no-one to become enlightened either, that is merely conceptual once again. This IS-ness arising IS already awake. ''Appearing'' AS the impersonal and personal mutually together. Oneness in all it's many facets of expression. Embracing each expression be it reactive or passive with unconditional love and detachment. Quote.....Wayne L When you think about this Awakening, which is an impersonal event which happens through a body-mind mechanism, you have to assume, because of your own lifetime of experience, that there is someone there for whom this experience happens. You can't imagine an impersonal happening of that kind, or what an impersonal experiential state would be, because there is no such thing as an impersonal experiential state. It is incomprehensible, literally incomprehensible. Yet that is what it is... from Acceptance of What IS, 2000 W a y n e L i q u o r m a n

The difference between Consciousness and Awareness.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hwyuQbIb0Xs