tarin greco:
no, what you have are grievances and gripes, which you have already demonstrated clearly in your posts in this thread[1], elsewhere on this forum[2], and on the
yahoo 'actual freedom' mailing list[3].
now, as by the 19th of november last year (2009), you had written to that mailing list (posting under the names 'infiniti_zero_0' and 'Zero Infinity') a whopping 479 emails over the course of 35 days (equivalent to about 14 emails a day), you have also already demonstrated a capacity for writing (mostly) bickering and argumentative, non-practice-related, missives at a near-manic rate, and have demonstrated a willingness to flood a discussion group with them.
You are overlooking one thing while mentioning my posts on yahoo list which is that I did start to 'practice' after I had aired what you see as grievances and gripes (which I see as doubts as it is doubts that give rise to posts whatever kind one may find them to be).
My posts will have benefit in the future for anyone who has doubts if my doubts get cleared. Less doubts means more chances of success. I hope you can see this with an actual caring outlook. If you still can't see it from a balanced outlook, can I suggest that a thread be created where people can post their doubts and hope to get an answer from an actually free person? You assumed that my interest lies in tantric practices but in reality, my interest lies only in cessation of suffering. Method to do it may be any, I am interested in more than one method at a time. My posts will be the same kind even if it was tantra forum or any other.
As an actually free person, can you please provide an answer to my following doubt: Copy pasting from my response to Nad above:
From: http://www.actualfreedom.com.au/richard/selectedwriting/sw-universe.htm
"One can realise that one is the universe experiencing itself as a sensate and reflective human being."
In AF, one has to 'realise' instead of 'notice' that one is the universe experiencing itself as a sensate and reflective human being. I gave the carbon example to show the difference between realising and noticing. As a conscious human, one can notice that carbon present in humans is the same as carbon present in the universe but to realise it, one has to be consciously aware of the physical constituents (say carbon) of human body and only then can one say that it is the universe experiencing itself as a sensate human being.
The first life-form was not aware of itself. It is only the highest life forms which are conscious of being conscious. Are you suggesting a fundamental link between consciousness and matter? That when life-form evolves passions, that link gets broken and what AF does is that it restores that link? Restoring in a way similar to what yoga is supposed to do, yoking body and mind, mind and matter or consciousness and matter and it yokes in such a fundamental way that one could say that it is universe experiencing itself as a sensate human being?
Another question that I would like to ask you is that were you able to find out the reason for not feeling good always or were there times when you didn't get an answer? What did you do during those times? What could be the reason as to why one starts to feel bad when there is absolutely nothing that happened to make one start to feel bad?
PS: From http://www.dharmaoverground.org/web/guest/discussion/-/message_boards/message/1188800
"3) The first two points being established, there will naturally be changes, phases of exploration, pulses of interest in various methods and traditions, experiments, failures, successes, orthodoxies that establish themselves, cults of personality, counter-orthodoxies and counter-cults that rebel against those, reformations, factions, fads, and fashions, confusion regarding message, messenger and mode of presentation, role reversals, miscommunications, misinterpretations, syntheses of previously disparate philosophies and theories, re-syntheses based on new information of variable quality, absorptions, incorporations, revisions, fusions, fractures, disruptions, setbacks, advancements, and all the other muck and genius that is simply par for the course in these most rarified, deep, profound, subtle, difficult and human endeavors.
4) People perennially want things to cling to: traditions, friends, communities, dogmas, fears, feelings, rivalries, cliques, religions, fantasies, dreams, boundaries, limitations, rules, taboos, and much, much more. When those change or shift, which is inevitable, this can cause contraction, bitterness, resentment, lashing out, bargaining, coercion, and a whole host of other reactions as they adjust to new circumstances and attempt to get their needs, however real or imagined, met by the external world."
Do you have a clinging to AF? Can you see my posts in terms of Daniel's vision of DhO point 3? Being a site moderator, can you keep a more open attitude?