04-06 Open Question

.Eliza Scribing...

http://wiki.playasbeing.org/Chat_Logs/2010/10/2010.10.05_13%3a00_-_Trusting_Basic_Goodness

Bruce Mowbray: Well. . . .
Bruce Mowbray: This morning I woke up feeling paranoid.
Bruce Mowbray: Very unusual for me -- might have been a bad dream.
Bruce Mowbray: This is going to sound very strange. . .
Bruce Mowbray: but I seemed to need to reassure myself of Trust.
Bruce Mowbray: Trust in the most basic things. . .
Bruce Mowbray: like Time.
Hana Furlough: can you trust Time?
Bruce Mowbray: Like -- trusting that the processes of Nature are working as they should.
Tallin Dezno: (whaow)
Bruce Mowbray: yes, very basic stuff, indeed.
Tallin Dezno: that sounds intense
Bruce Mowbray: yes, intense.
Wol Euler: what did you do?
Wol Euler: (to recover your trust)
Hana Furlough: wow
Bruce Mowbray: Then it occurred to me how I live moment-by-moment with that Trust. . .
Tallin Dezno: and I had thought the same spontaneously : a bad dream ...
Bruce Mowbray listens for more from Tallin.
Hana Furlough: Bruce, can you say more about how you live?
Tallin Dezno: I think, then one mostly finds back quick to a so called "normality" ? sry, if I destroy mysticisms with it perhaps ? some people don´t like such at all ...
Bruce Mowbray: It's OK, Tallin.
Tallin Dezno: but what I mean is a healthy and peaceful state of being ...
Bruce Mowbray: Well, to answer Hana, I seemed to need to do a "leap of faith."
Tallin Dezno: ty Bruce- and I would also like to ask : how did that go on ? better, good now ?
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, in order to re-establish a healthy and peaceful state of being, I needed to make a leap of faith.
Hana Furlough: how did you do that?
Bruce Mowbray: It seems that I needed to "drop" all of my needs for "security" -- and simply go back to Trusting.
Bruce Mowbray: although if you asked me WHOM or WHAT I was trusting, I couldn't answer.
Tallin Dezno: sounds great, very good - does it feel like that, too ? (hopefully) ... :-)
Hana Furlough: Is that your practice, to Trust?
Wol Euler nods.
Bruce Mowbray: I hadn't realized it until this morning -- but, yes, I think that must be a basic part of my practice... or at least it is NOW.
Hana Furlough: wow
Hana Furlough: that's incredibly inspiring, Bruce
Bruce Mowbray: We often say, "Stay in the open question..."
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'One went to the door of the Beloved and
knocked. A voice asked, 'Who is there?
He answered, 'It is I.'

The voice said, 'There is no room for Me and Thee.'
The door was shut.

After a year of solitude and deprivation he returned and knocked.
A voice from within asked, 'Who is there?'
The man said, 'It is Thee'
The door was opened for him.

Rumi
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Bruce Mowbray: I'm going to experiment with trying to offer you coffee. You don't have to accept. . . I just want to see how it works, OK?
stevenaia Michinaga: ok

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