would it be easy for you to chooce if you prefere were alone or within silence with other person ?
on some level, we can treat everything as TOY, Play. but then we are at the danger of loosing the meaning, the importance of things. how to loose the concepts and stay caring, involved, human while doing the phenomenology experiment and try to see everything as appearances?
why would you protect your home rather than mine after becoming one with the larger entity? when you are one with god, would you protect your child before mine?
After dropping all this will bring natural compassion and a deep touch to everything in contrast to that it might as well lead to detachment.
visiting detachment to truely see what attachments we had/need/want might be very good
just...BE and see what happens... just...love the child in front of you no matter WHO it is. with all you've got at the moment.. (maybe true for everything there is)
wonders of budduism: equinimity vs. indifference
so how do you handle fear in the method where each negative emotion has its dual counterpart and if meditated on and worked with will produce the opposite? (spectrum of ecstasy by Ngakpa Chogyam book about emotions in a spiritual context)
when anger arises recognise that its based on some form of fear; in fact its interesting when one is angry how precise and directed and focused our thoughts, emotions can be; in looking at or discovering the fear, theanger dissolves into clarity
buddhism never says it is bad to be angry but sees its use of energy as a way of cutting through, however one must also be unattached to it...
When we are alone in the pavilion are we really alone?
Many spirits been here still even they have not been to see. I've felt them as present.
it is sometimes very warming feeling the presence of others here when we are alone here; realm created by love
Is there no time?
we perceive time as something linear; past present future; but we can only be aware of what is happening now, even our understanding of the past is something we have now
Is trust is one of the ways we perceive time?
(long discussion why promises should be the basis of our perception of time)
If you trust someone, it means you are focused on some promises he has made or will make. In all cases, trust involves a projection into the future. And the past is what you search for clues to support trust or undermine it. All of which rely on some kind of promises we have made or received
so time is very subjective in this view...
Time is present in our lives as a sequence of small promises.
sitting alone, watching the sky, what promise is there?
With who do I "speak in silence"?
bubu