Re: Really cheap spiritualityz (was Re: Cheap thrills)

"Tang Huyen" <tanghuyen{delete}@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "ltlee1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Part of our problems is semantics. In the above example, I use "2+2."
>> One can say "Two plus two makes four" or "Two plus two equals to
>> four."  "Make" is indicative of a power relation****p as in "He makes
>> me do it."  "Equal" is not. So, one easy way to to change our view
>> from "make", "cause" and etc to "equal." Rather than "X has caused me
>> trouble." One can say "X is troube." The next is what "makes" trouble
>> trouble. Again, we have to unmake the "make." After we have unmake all
>> the make, we can only relax and serene about everything left.
>> Whatever was was. Whatever is is. Whatever will be will be.
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> <<After we have unmake all the make, we can
> only relax and [be] serene about everything left.
> Whatever was was. Whatever is is. Whatever
> will be will be.>>
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> Right. Nirvana is defined as the calming of all
> compositions (sabba-sankhara-samatho), or
> as non-doing (an-abhi-sankhara), where the
> stem is kr- "to do, to act", as in karman "deed,
> act". Such expressions are direct equivalents
> to Daoist wu-wei "non-doing".

can you do nothing ? can you stop
breathing, thinking, sleeping, eating
or ****ing ? can you stop the parasympathetic
nervous system ? it's more like recognition of
that underlying process which itself is doing
nothing rather than 'you' actually doing nothing
and even that recognition is a 'doing', if you will.