old3bob

"... In a way it’s all just a huge puzzle, and I appreciate any internally available tool to get me through it. " Bindi is a form of surrender instead of a form of conqueror, an internally available tool?

.

the price for postage stamps keeps going up

what happens after the Self is unveiled, death dies.

some teachings related to this string come from renunciates living in a controlled environment (like a monastery) and are under the guidance and protection of their Guru or Master (who may also be watching out for their families of householders)...so and btw. some that may be reading here that are not in such an environment or under such protection should be warned to not just grab a book and start doing this energy stuff on their own!

when we were young we didn't need ride on mowers, unless the lawn was huge!

which for me also brings to mind this picture/symbol besides all the other pointers out there:

that's cool man, thanks a ton for taking the time to share your reflections!

bump

dharma is, and is not ignorance or delusion of adharma... and please don't tell us that you folks are above and beyond all of that with some fancy sounding spiritual two stepping...

100% purity is the only way to survive 100% energy, although revealing Grace does play a key a factor in getting us over the hump since who is a 100% pure? if you have something to say ST just say it instead of beating around the bush with the icons.

Again, it is lawful law and to just cavalierly put it in a pot as ignorance is a type of ignorance to me,....for instance a great (enlightened) master who still has a body at some level will also still have a small amount of ego for interacting in realms, which also means a small amount of karma even though they are not ignorant or accumulating it further. Was the historic Buddha free from the workings of karma when he ate pork and died from it? Not too many Buddhists are going to say he was ignorant or of ignorance to do so. (regardless of some very convoluted or double take type of explanations as to why)

karma being a law and lawful I'd say that there is no delusion or ignorance in what it pertains to... such denial sounds way off...

there is chipping away on the inside of a shell to get out, there is also a chipping away on the outside of that shell for freedom. (are the chippers really the same but in different phases?)

except that potency for joy and love per a karma yoga aspect expands, thus the ball game is not void of humanity or lost in the rote droning of non-dual intellectual abstractions.