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Eddy

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Posted - May 03 2007 :  9:54:13 PM  Show Profile  Visit Eddy's Homepage  Reply with Quote  Get a Link to this Message
ok this is just stupid idea i have.. It's like i'll call myself the cool samaritan in order to subjectivise myseld and my values and such. it's almost like a neti neti technique. LIke i'll be walkign and say in the third person "the cool samaritan thinks it's a good thing to smile at strangers" or "the cool samaritan always washes his hands after he goes to the bathroom".... i don't think it will be very ego disorienting or anything because it's not like the cool samaritan is "not me" but it's also "not not me"... he's neither. kind of a middle way appraoch...

i can also practice karma yoga like this also, and it will help me not estrange myself from others...

so am i a stupid samaritan or what??

Edited by - Eddy on May 06 2007 11:44:06 AM

weaver

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Posted - May 06 2007 :  1:36:57 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote  Get a Link to this Reply
so am i a stupid samaritan or what??

I don't think so. It's always constructive to affirm constructive statements in the mind or otherwise, regardless if they are intended directly to "you" or not. Whatever we affirm will be implanted in our consciousness, and will create opinions and beliefs. These will eventually outplay themselves in our life one way or the other, depending on how strong and consistent our application of affirming them has been. So, we need to watch out also that we don't get into the habit of affirming what we don't want to manifest, because it will work that way as well.
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anthony574

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Posted - Jun 18 2007 :  12:20:05 PM  Show Profile  Visit anthony574's Homepage  Reply with Quote  Get a Link to this Reply
i kind of take on a third-person perspective as well when i am in samaritan mode :)
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yogibear

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Posted - Jun 18 2007 :  7:06:37 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote  Get a Link to this Reply
so am i a stupid samaritan or what??

No, definately a samaritan.

The cool samaritan is practicing karma yoga and fulfilling his dharma by serving his fellow sentient beings.

Cool.
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Eddie33

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Posted - Nov 08 2007 :  11:54:35 AM  Show Profile  Visit Eddie33's Homepage  Reply with Quote  Get a Link to this Reply
stupid samaritan
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