Happiness is another word for 'what happens'. Unhappiness is another word for 'what should happen'. This is my experience also. Happiness now: happeness, no double you; happiness is in what happens without a double (or divided) you. I get so jazzed at this noticing. Nice find dilaram. Speaking of n...

toombaru wrote:Searching for yourself by using conceptual thought......is like looking for a pet in the meat market.




toombaru

True.

However one can use inquiry to question concepts so as to discover who one is not. Then only love/Self/consciousness remains.

Are you pretending you don't know?

Here's a picture that was published in TIME magazine:
http://www.time.com/time/potw/20020726/5.html

Kailashana wrote:Damn, I missed the meating!

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It's an understandable mis-steak

Makara, The square root of one percent of Australia is 462. Just your Buddhist population alone takes care of that. Although that doesn't mean they are holding that state constantly. David Lynch's next movie is called The Square Root Of One Percent. Check out this cool website: http://www.davidleffl...

Makara, I'm very sad that folks like you have *given up* the *good* fight. I too, am *finished* with that, however, I still am actively *engaged*. It takes a billion buddhas contemplating their navel to raise the vibration, and a billion buddhas being actively engaged in the world. We are given our...

dilaram wrote:Happiness is that which lovingly allows unhappiness to exist.

There's no emoticons for nodding so just pretend there is one.

Being alone is often easier than not being alone. But often the question arises here "Is this a form of escapism?" Yes, and sometimes being with others is escapism too. It is easy to be unaffected if one rarely interacts. Yet is that interaction necessary to discover where reactivity lies hiding? F...

"Ultimately, nothing moves." -Byron Katie

dilaram wrote:

Libra wrote:just be it

Being is being me is being you is being everything is being not is being...

"I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together" -John Lennon

He would have been 70 today.......imagine?.......Imagine

Libra wrote:just be it

Isn't this part of a line from the Rock Horror Picture Show?
"Don't dream it, be it."

If it doesn't stand up to inquiry and my own inner wisdom, I say it's bunk. Yes ... ok But the last paragraph is not quite clear .. can you clarify? Do you find the Jesus message bunk? Does the message stand up to inner inquiry? Oh the joys of being 'done over' by catholicism in one's young and ten...

I also have memories of the same kind of after school religion. I don't know if Jesus was real and I don't really care (kind of like Bill Maher's comment of being an apatheist! hehe), nor do I care if the Buddha was a real man. As a kid I felt as though there was something really great and radical a...

Kailashana wrote:There is no such thing as homeostasis. It is against nature...intrinsic of growth and decay. Of ascending and descending one's train of thoughts.

~A

Growth and decay create a balance or equilibrium of nature. Systems that seem out of balance are not, because there are no closed systems.