Tony
2nd April 2011, 12:18
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
Socrates
Knowing you are a fool is the beginning of wisdom. There is then only
one way to go....UP!
I am a fool! OK, let's say it together - “I am a fool!”
Errrrr, excuse me dear fellow dreamers, but...are you all going potty?!
Half of us are seeking out videos of super-gizmo-conspiracy-things (and
yes, this is addictive!) while the other half are chanting “Kumbaya”
as they sink into pools of sentimentality...
Forgive me, but there on-lookers who are fucntion by Ancient Protocols, and
they are waiting to see if we are worth saving. These people are super
intelligent, super smart - they stopped drinking the water years ago!
We can, in no way, compete with them. They are smiling at us, and
that's putting it mildly.
However, there is another side to us, which I feel 'they' are lacking
....Ancient Compassionate Wisdom.
I've been banging on about this and getting absolutely no reaction.
So I am definitely the fool.
When the SHTF, what are you going to rely on? Do you want a tribal
community, or a wise community? Otherwise, we will just go round in circles.
Or perhaps we are doing that quite nicely already, thank you...
We need to break out of our conventional ways of thinking. You cannot rise
above concepts with concepts. Saying “I am waking up” are just words...
another concept.
You need genuine experience, and then let it go before it turns into another
Kumbaya moment!
Learning is painful. Ego freezes us. When ego feels uncomfortable, there is
a subtle conflict going on. That is where evolution takes place.
When the foot hits the floor, there is conflict, and you move forward.
If the foot is not moved, we are stuck in one place.
No one can do this for us! Watch out for your hand grabbing for that
comfort blanket...
Does any of this make any sense? Please feel free to disagree.
These are not my ideas: I have been taught in the Nyingma tradition
of Tibetan Buddhism. This is a practical view.
At the moment, I am having as much trouble talking to you lot, as trying to tell
Buddhists that everything is a lie, as well as an illusion. They also cling to their rituals...isn't life a bugger?
But still it's beautiful!!
By the way, my wife has just come home, read this and thinks I may have Aspberger's Syndrome...who knows?
All the best.
Pie'n'eal
Socrates
Knowing you are a fool is the beginning of wisdom. There is then only
one way to go....UP!
I am a fool! OK, let's say it together - “I am a fool!”
Errrrr, excuse me dear fellow dreamers, but...are you all going potty?!
Half of us are seeking out videos of super-gizmo-conspiracy-things (and
yes, this is addictive!) while the other half are chanting “Kumbaya”
as they sink into pools of sentimentality...
Forgive me, but there on-lookers who are fucntion by Ancient Protocols, and
they are waiting to see if we are worth saving. These people are super
intelligent, super smart - they stopped drinking the water years ago!
We can, in no way, compete with them. They are smiling at us, and
that's putting it mildly.
However, there is another side to us, which I feel 'they' are lacking
....Ancient Compassionate Wisdom.
I've been banging on about this and getting absolutely no reaction.
So I am definitely the fool.
When the SHTF, what are you going to rely on? Do you want a tribal
community, or a wise community? Otherwise, we will just go round in circles.
Or perhaps we are doing that quite nicely already, thank you...
We need to break out of our conventional ways of thinking. You cannot rise
above concepts with concepts. Saying “I am waking up” are just words...
another concept.
You need genuine experience, and then let it go before it turns into another
Kumbaya moment!
Learning is painful. Ego freezes us. When ego feels uncomfortable, there is
a subtle conflict going on. That is where evolution takes place.
When the foot hits the floor, there is conflict, and you move forward.
If the foot is not moved, we are stuck in one place.
No one can do this for us! Watch out for your hand grabbing for that
comfort blanket...
Does any of this make any sense? Please feel free to disagree.
These are not my ideas: I have been taught in the Nyingma tradition
of Tibetan Buddhism. This is a practical view.
At the moment, I am having as much trouble talking to you lot, as trying to tell
Buddhists that everything is a lie, as well as an illusion. They also cling to their rituals...isn't life a bugger?
But still it's beautiful!!
By the way, my wife has just come home, read this and thinks I may have Aspberger's Syndrome...who knows?
All the best.
Pie'n'eal