By offering 'yourself' to one higher, you are offering something fake (your idea of separate self) to something equally fake, as it has its conceptual reality based on your initial false premise: that idea of a separate self which may be offered.
Yet, to give yourself up...
Bodhidharma, the startling awakening
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*"If you want to abandon the unreal and turn to the real, sit steadily and
gaze at a wall. Self and other, ordinary people and enlightened ones, are
one an...
4 years ago
4 comments:
Yes, very nicely put . . the difference is noted.
I'll be especially careful this evening when offering anything up to her 'Highness' . . . It's OK, I did the giving up thing a long time ago!
Hey, it's OK, I'm only being lighthearted, a great post ;-)
I love this. It traps the mind living in duality and makes it squirm...
You gotta quit doing this. You're making me head spin and it's way too early in the morning for that. :P
something like Show me your original nature and if you say anything you get squashed...try living in an ashram for a week (I've done it recently) got along with everyone except one Chinese guy called ME chigui (meaning I am strange) he didn't like that I understood some Chinese & was a jerk.
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