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Rajeev Sethi
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 Posted - Apr 25 2011 : 08:11:43 AM
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vijikr
United Arab Emirates
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Posted - Apr 25 2011 : 09:15:12 AM
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| one is blossoming and other is withering which is lifecycle of us being born,gone n reborn again.. |
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davidg
United Kingdom
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Posted - Apr 25 2011 : 5:07:54 PM
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| it is the observer, the witness, he who is aware, of those two otherwise individual events, |
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manigma
India
1065 Posts |
Posted - Apr 26 2011 : 01:12:02 AM
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Never mind. Thanks for your participation.
1.1 Father forgive them, for they know not what they do
1.2 Today you will be with me in paradise
1.3 Behold your son: behold your mother
1.4 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me
1.5 I thirst
1.6 It is finished
1.7 Father, into your hands I commit my spirit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saying...on_the_cross
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josongeorge5
India
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Posted - Apr 26 2011 : 02:19:30 AM
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Chiron
Russia
397 Posts |
Posted - Apr 26 2011 : 07:36:57 AM
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The spirit never left the father
the flower blossomed
the leaves blew further
today we are in paradise |
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manigma
India
1065 Posts |
Posted - Apr 26 2011 : 09:34:21 AM
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Originally posted by manigma
What's common between a blossoming flower...
... and a dry leaf falling from a tree?
The answer is SURRENDER.
- The blossoming flower surrenders to Light. Grace.
- And the dry leaf falling from the tree surrenders to Gravity. Stillness.
Grace + Stillness is a lethal combination.
Om
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jeff
USA
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Posted - Apr 26 2011 : 11:18:05 AM
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Or as Lau Tzu might say from another perspective, "no struggle" with Tao. To be fair, I think a buddhist could also say "no desire".
A story I once heard... Buddha, Confucius and Lau Tzu were all asked to play a game of Monopoly. Buddha said that there was no game, so there was no point in playing. Confucius would only play if he could be the banker (He wanted to make sure that everyone followed the rules). Lau Tzu played fully with abandon and didn't worry about the outcome.
Peace & Love. |
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maheswari
Lebanon
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Posted - Apr 26 2011 : 12:42:32 PM
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| manigma...do u have another one....i liked this one a lot... |
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Etherfish
USA
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Posted - Apr 26 2011 : 10:38:23 PM
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OK this confirms my answer of "Maya" being correct since you have surrendered to her illusions. Surrender is a human quality, not a plant quality. You are trying to apply a human quality to a plant which can't have that quality.
It is true that a man would have to surrender to become like a plant, because he would have to give up his ego, but the plant does not give anything up; it just exists. To surrender is relinquishing something to another power. A flower opens because that is built into its DNA. It is not deciding to open as a sacrifice when it would rather be a rogue flower and do something else, so it is not surrendering. In fact it is taking power from the sun, not giving up something.
And the dry leaf falling from the tree could be stretched to be called a surrender, as much as the earth orbiting the sun is surrendering to the gravitational pull of the sun, but it is still not giving something up. If you trip on something and fall down, you are not really surrendering as there is no conscious giving up;
it just happens outside of your will, just like if your car is stolen when you're not there, you didn't "surrender" it.
So yes, Maya is the correct answer. . . |
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manigma
India
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Posted - Apr 27 2011 : 01:16:47 AM
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Originally posted by Etherfish
OK this confirms my answer of "Maya" being correct since you have surrendered to her illusions. Surrender is a human quality, not a plant quality. You are trying to apply a human quality to a plant which can't have that quality.
It is true that a man would have to surrender to become like a plant, because he would have to give up his ego, but the plant does not give anything up; it just exists. To surrender is relinquishing something to another power. A flower opens because that is built into its DNA. It is not deciding to open as a sacrifice when it would rather be a rogue flower and do something else, so it is not surrendering. In fact it is taking power from the sun, not giving up something.
And the dry leaf falling from the tree could be stretched to be called a surrender, as much as the earth orbiting the sun is surrendering to the gravitational pull of the sun, but it is still not giving something up. If you trip on something and fall down, you are not really surrendering as there is no conscious giving up;
it just happens outside of your will, just like if your car is stolen when you're not there, you didn't "surrender" it.
So yes, Maya is the correct answer. . .
You think too much.
There is no Maya.
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manigma
India
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Posted - Apr 27 2011 : 04:06:29 AM
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Originally posted by jeff
Or as Lau Tzu might say from another perspective, "no struggle" with Tao.
Yes. No struggle.
'It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.' - Muhammad Ali (Legendary Boxer)
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manigma
India
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Posted - Apr 27 2011 : 04:37:32 AM
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Originally posted by maheswari
manigma...do u have another one....i liked this one a lot...
OK. This one's much easier.
What's common between a dry leaf crushed under your feet...
... and you?
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Etherfish
USA
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Posted - Apr 27 2011 : 07:18:55 AM
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Originally posted by manigma
quote:
Originally posted by Etherfish
OK this confirms my answer of "Maya" being correct since you have surrendered to her illusions. Surrender is a human quality, not a plant quality. You are trying to apply a human quality to a plant which can't have that quality.
It is true that a man would have to surrender to become like a plant, because he would have to give up his ego, but the plant does not give anything up; it just exists. To surrender is relinquishing something to another power. A flower opens because that is built into its DNA. It is not deciding to open as a sacrifice when it would rather be a rogue flower and do something else, so it is not surrendering. In fact it is taking power from the sun, not giving up something.
And the dry leaf falling from the tree could be stretched to be called a surrender, as much as the earth orbiting the sun is surrendering to the gravitational pull of the sun, but it is still not giving something up. If you trip on something and fall down, you are not really surrendering as there is no conscious giving up;
it just happens outside of your will, just like if your car is stolen when you're not there, you didn't "surrender" it.
So yes, Maya is the correct answer. . .
You think too much.
There is no Maya.
You mean there is no surrender.
And there are no words - and yet the riddle asked for a word. . . |
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AYPforum
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Posted - Apr 27 2011 : 08:02:46 AM
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manigma
India
1065 Posts |
Posted - Apr 27 2011 : 08:13:46 AM
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Originally posted by Etherfish
You mean there is no surrender.
And there are no words - and yet the riddle asked for a word. . .
It wasn't a riddle.
Riddles are for philosophers.
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Etherfish
USA
3615 Posts |
Posted - Apr 27 2011 : 5:42:25 PM
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| That's OK; I was writing in an entirely different language that just looks exactly like English, but it isn't. |
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wakeupneo
USA
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Posted - Apr 27 2011 : 7:38:29 PM
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Originally posted by manigma
quote:
Originally posted by manigma
What's common between a blossoming flower...
... and a dry leaf falling from a tree?
The answer is SURRENDER.
- The blossoming flower surrenders to Light. Grace.
- And the dry leaf falling from the tree surrenders to Gravity. Stillness.
Grace + Stillness is a lethal combination.
Om
Manigma,
there you go playing around with duality again...
the only REAL answer is EVERYTHING
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manigma
India
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Posted - Apr 28 2011 : 12:49:37 AM
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Originally posted by Etherfish
That's OK; I was writing in an entirely different language that just looks exactly like English, but it isn't.
Yes. Now you have understood.
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manigma
India
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Posted - Apr 28 2011 : 12:50:40 AM
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Originally posted by wakeupneo
Manigma,
there you go playing around with duality again...
the only REAL answer is EVERYTHING
OM
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Etherfish
USA
3615 Posts |
Posted - Apr 28 2011 : 07:50:40 AM
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Originally posted by manigma
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Originally posted by Etherfish
That's OK; I was writing in an entirely different language that just looks exactly like English, but it isn't.
Yes. Now you have understood.
Thank you. I learned that from recognizing you were doing the same. |
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