XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.support.schizophrenia
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being@apolka.sign
ansaman wrote:
one wrote:
Doing nothing, a flower is drawn to flower
by all the factors which draw it near to be
no thing other than what it is, to flower.
When something acts according to its
nature, it is in its place.
Assuming a thing is, a place is
and its nature is, without objection.
Already there are three, words,
not to mention verbs, time frames and pre-
positions positioned within the sentence.
A sentence sentences a thought complete.
A boxed car in a train of thought tracked.
Iterating and reiterating what is written below
as an echo of sorts, one finds many, a pattern.
Can a fractal make a mistake, one wonders.
Equations equate. An equal sign vibrates.
Two sides appear different, and yet are not.
In that sense, Noah has repeatedly asserted
that we are not really acting according to
our nature and this causes suffering and
disharmony (or that is my impression of
what he is saying).
Being able to agree, one may say, aye, agree.
Being able to reflect and respect a pov
a conversation can end at that.
Maps map. Where is one going, one may ask.
Healthy people might not visit a doctor. When
one suffers, a solution could be sought after.
If some one, such as Noah or any one, suffers,
a source may be found in one's thought. Patterns
of identification, with one's carving, creating things
in one's mind as one's trains of thought trained one.
They did an experiment a while back with
baby wild turkey chicks who having never seen
a predator or even another being of any kind
reacted protectively when a shadow like a hawk
was displayed.
This hard wiring might be thought of in the
same way that we think of firmware. Instinct drives
almost all living things... but mankind.
Mankind sucks, instinctually.
Knees jerk. Rooting, moro, step, grasp, reflexes
people are born, quantum style, of a people-wave.
As individuals in particular, a people-wave waves
its waves of people on the surface of a sphere.
People tunnel, similar to other quanta,
without being the same, as are flakes of snow.
Water is water. Water waters.
Its forms change to a point.
A molecule divided is no longer water.
We have been overwriting our firmware with
self-generated software and data for a very
long time and it is our problem that we have
done a very poor job debugging what we have written.
Seeing bugs, wabbits emerge.
Tribbles multiply on starships far and wide.
We pass on the same errors to our children
that were passed on to us, even without realizing.
Assuming errors are errors, one mite
finds, well-carving a frog knows not an ocean.
Sometimes, new ideas come along and they are
incorporated with very little testing and
even widely adopted with horrific results.
Seeking its own level, water
and nature may be viewed as doing
without intent, and, reaches lowest lows
along with highest highs.
Exploring all Ways, ones that survive, survive.
Natural Selection Theory might see fit if not fittest
to presume, evolution, rather than involution.
Being involved, energy gets.
Energy transmits, changing forms.
Matter matters and given an equal sign
is not other than waves in particular.
One mite insists, a flower is not dirt, not
air nor water, nor a sun, the Sun, nay.
An other one states, ah, and, sew.
Sew an it seams. Two be. Three. Many.
On top of this we have added many tools such
as culture, science and technology, and art and
literature that often cloud the issue as
much as they are useful.
Taking issue with tissue
paper, some is too rough and some
has lotion, fragrance, rips too easily or not easy enuf.
An issue of using a map to map is its limits.
Maps map. Maps may be of use. Territories vary.
A chart of an electrical system or plumbing
can be a huge help when a problem is found.
With systems emerge systemic problems.
Machines break. Without machines, suddenly,
and perhaps without notice, such problems vanish.
Seeing people as a species, as a system, one mite
seizes at times and, like a cam or a crank loses
strength being unable to turn around as
planned given smoke and mirrors.
It all started with a level of awareness that
exceeds and transcends instinct.
Kinda like, once upon a time ... .
A myth-map that begins with an it might
be picked up and carried a long for a spell.
In depth the plot thickens.
Captivated ears listen.
With complex
communication comes transmission of information,
a spread of innovation (this is how to make fire),
and eventually the abstract thought that takes
us away from the here and now into the murky
and dangerous past and future. Suffering in the
mental sense becomes real.
Even more real than an odd nation-state
of mind, or a species-state, of being,
an individual being may suffer.
Mankind becomes aware
of death in an intellectual way. Ancient religious
thought accounts for the sacrifice that our
animal friends make when we eat them.
One wonders, me being one, personally, if, aye,
if hungry enough would killing of near cousins be done.
Would a live rabbit be caught, or a buffalo sought.
Carry on, the carrion before hunting may be
was how people managed on a scene.
It progresses
from regret to worship to ritualized slaughter
meant to lessen the suffering of domesticated animals.
The child asks about the thunder and we create an
answer so we can stop them asking repeatedly. The
child ask what happened to Grandma when she died
and we come up with an answer or what our parents
told us.
It all started when the One, the Self began
to play hide and seek and progressed in stages
on stages through out history with time beings.
We start small and accumulate incredible amounts
of data and software. Primitive man has been shown
to learn the turns of the seasons by observing the
sky and then knows when to plant or when the herds
that migrate will return. Some of the stuff is really
useful... and some is filled with misinformation.
The best of culture competes with the worst of culture
in our lives.
A war going on inside provides
grist for a mill stone turning by ox.
Then, even as we have created all this new software,
the firmware persists and creates real problems. Drives
for sex, drives for aggression, drives for fear of
outsiders, drives for accumulation of material goods
and food sometimes clash with other drives such as
cooperation and compassion. The underlying anxiety
in our firmware is multiplied. What used to protect
us and drive us makes us miserable.
At times, aye, one is depressed and as an old one,
a Lao Tzu may have noticed, to leap requires a
kind of a knee-bend, usually going without saying.
Can one, aye, me being me, know a high
without having bins of low plumbed in depth.
When awareness flowers flower
being drawn to return to the Self, the One,
Being, Existence, Life, beyond names, what then.
A flower mite reaches an apex and is doomed.
Aye, to know the mountain top a top spins.
Panoramic a view, a scene seen. Then,
then again, and again, a down looms.
Another dawn.
Another day.
Another chance.
Hooray!
YET, I assert that as complex and difficult as this
this problem is, it is indeed part of the normal
course of things and given the span of time, everything
we have achieved in the last 100,000 years and all
the difficulties we have had are a mere teaspoon in
the river of time. Things will keep changing. We
cannot know where it leads.
Epistemologies vary.
For me, not eating the fruit of the Tree
of the Knowedge of good/bad can be a key.
Even to touch its bark is to bark up the wrong Tree.
To be right and not left, knowing both life and death.
Sitting and forgetting, to forget and forget. Two may
return to the One. From 10k-things back to Being and
ultimately Nonbeing is where an it all began.
Created as a tale t'old for a telling.
Some explanations matter m'ore.
Sum less. Less and less is a Way.
Seeing how desire/suffering argh as a coin.
A buddha mite transcends and sends blessings.
One bugs me at times. Two times. Three and then.
- hunting wabbits ... solutions vary ... Thanks again! Cheers!
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