... (Monkey Mind) wrote: The opposite of self-deception is facing life as it is... Crap. Read Liber B. Well, these "cuttingthrough" threads already revolve around a book - "CuttingThrough Spiritual Materialism" - and have a mixed audience (... that, without any thought of self or not-self or ant idea that would... or life, is or isn't, self or other....awareness beyond condition, but...
...> writes: On Jan 24, 1:45 am, monkeym...@hactrn.ch (Monkey Mind) wrote: The opposite of self-deception is facing life as it is. Crap. Read Liber B. Well, these "cuttingthrough" threads already revolve around a book - "CuttingThrough Spiritual Materialism" - and have a mixed audience (cross-posted to alt.magick and TRB). It's a book ...
... you don't suck and don't need to "fix" anything. Anti-Self and Anti-Ego live in the coterminous reverse timestream, with ... other side of the ''mirror", to be distinguished from the Over-"Self" which is the culmination of the annihilation of one and one's ... still, it's a good example of the particular kind of attachment addressed in this book "CuttingThrough Spiritual Materialism".
.... What do you make of the instruction "putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world"? Fantasizing about some ideal is clearly self-deception, but ideals have their uses: for motivation/inspiration, as a goal to give direction to one's efforts. How do you view this ...
... sudden insight? Yes. Then what happened? I had more information to work with than before the insight. Fantasizing about some ideal is clearly self-deception, but ideals have their uses: for motivation/inspiration, as a goal to give direction to one's efforts. How do you view this ......
...> Summary of the chapter on self-deception: Spiritual realization/insight is not ...separation from it. The opposite of self-deception is facing life as it...Fantasizing about some ideal is clearly self-deception, but ideals have their uses: for motivation/inspiration, as a ... unless you meet your Anti-Self and it's Anti-Ego, ... primality of the world flow through it easy and naturally, in ...
Summary of the chapter on self-deception: Spiritual realization/insight is not something to get, to obtain, to acquire, to..., and fear separation from it. The opposite of self-deception is facing life as it is. (There... why not? Fantasizing about some ideal is clearly self-deception, but ideals have their uses: for motivation/inspiration, as a goal to give direction...
...t want to have thoughts about egotistical things in my head path to endarkenment. Self-love, and In the means of ones whole self, across time and space, extending in hidden dimensions, populated by multitudes- And still .... One means there are no real consequences or purposes (too easy, a self- lie to get you off the hook of real responsibilities) The other ...
... being erased. It's not possible unless you meet your Anti-Self and it's Anti-Ego, then annihilation is possible. You... high ideals and reality? Removing that will of course cripple us. Self-mutilation is not a useful path, according to the Buddha. ... made pretty and allow the aesthetic primality of the world flow through it easy and naturally, in which case everything you want ...
