deci belle

yaha!! How simply ordinary!❤

Ya, i put relatively dense and pithy things there. It's hardly a surprise there are no responses. I'd love it if there were. I think to bump or re-post some of those now and then, but I don't really see why. I just wait and make up new ones when they bubble up. lately I posted a long compilation of PM responses to a taobum about alchemy, but I get frustrated about the short attention spans and chopped it down from 500 words to about 20— hahaa! But I'll do an old one and see what happens, thelerner.❤

Mind has no context. The mind that judges is a thief. Thusness neither exists nor has no nonexistence. Entertaining idle thoughts such as these, even in earnest, are a waste of time. Better to turn the light around on one's own condition and rest there for an eternity than to be concerned with another's jewel like a pauper who doesn't know the jewel of one's own. As for those who appear to parrot the ancients in order to appear knowledgeable— Again, it is none of your concern. I know how you have been with me. All you are doing is comparing yourself to others, whether you know it or not. Stop this soon. Desire to compare yourself with others or any thought of your own ability is egoism and possessiveness. Why? Enlightenment is not a person. There is no person who has ever been enlightened. The experience is by virtue of non-origination. When you revert to nonexistence, Enlightenment is already there. In fact, it has never moved. Enlightenment is not an admixture ordinary and holy; not either nor neither. There is no such thing. So there is no comparing, compared or comparability. Enlightenment is right here and now. As such, if you are comparing, you are eons away from enlightenment. Again, spraying about such determinations are the antithesis of enlightened activity in the world. Please strive to stop this. Possessiveness is involvement in whether or not others, which includes you, are "enlightened". Enlightenment is only an indication of the natural affinity we already have. No one is not enlightened. Who knows that? Not a person. That's how you know. Enlightenment is entry-level experience. It's not the end— it's the beginning of the path. You have to get over enlightenment before you can enter the path the ancients have tread. Don't even be concerned about your own enlightenment, much less others'. Refine the self and await the time. See essence on your own, then seek a teacher. Gold isn't heavy if you don't see it. I see fool's gold. Those that know it don't parrot— they own it. (ed: one letter typo)

I don't understand why you would feel the need to think twice about it, mantis. Its not surprising at all, but I am glad it doesn't happen too often!!❤

Arbitrary action deviates from the Way. Virtue is responsive, according to the time.

I'll go with pristine any day as it's not the degree, but the nature that is real. Pristine greyness!! Apathy? Let's put an enlightened spin on that and call it dispassion. k?❤ It would be that experience of objectivity that we bring back and assimilate in ordinary worldly situations is the whole point of transcendent experience. Nice post, Aaron.

By abdominal breathing, i hope this means no longer breathing air conventionally and and only experiencing womb breathing? If so, I can only say that it happens to me spontaneously after the mind is ultimately quiet, serene and forgotten. I also experience breathing through the heels, but it doesn't seem any different. It just happens of its own accord by forgetting mind. I hope that provides an insight.

Who ever said anger is bad? Anger is an effective emotion. Use anger expertly. It's like fire. Know when to turn it on and also how to put it out. Know anger, then you can learn to turn it on and off at will. Don't let anyone try to put a guilt-trip on you about it, and don't do it to yourself.❤

Wow! Thank you, al!