Florian Weps:
1. The connections between lives is a biggie...
So there's this tri-pole thing, this damned-if-I-do, damned-if-I-don't (and kamma ist "what's done" so it translates quite literally.
2. I like the one-way mirror bowl thing image, and the precaution seems warranted, but there is the hypothetical possibility of polishing the bowl completely away, so it becomes two-way transparent. Seems less reactive.
Of&@Florian
3. Ok, let's try this way of keeping thread length down.
Since the daily flow of kamma strongly features the conflict I mentioned, some more notes on it.
Inputs:
4. The connections go way back, over half and over three quarters of my life, respectively.
Some of the conditions originate with people who have long died, yet commitments and promises to keep remain.
For all that family ties are involuntary (yeah, but like you said, let's not get into this), they are very tenacious.
Outputs:
5. With the promises and commitments comes a sense of betrayal.
Egos, masks, facades, whatever you want to call them - for all their hollowness they sure channel kamma-vipaka, they are in fact made of it.
6. Cutting down on the input somehow increases the output from old seeds germinating. This is seriously icky stuff, too, which is why it was buried so well in the first place.
Shadow stuff: I have no clue, really. I just do some stuff, powers/adhitthana type stuff sometimes, whatever seems right or even whatever I'm drawn to. Last year, when the sense of things hitting hard and fast was really strong, I made this resolve/request to get my shadow stuff revealed, so here I am. Now I'm just taking a step at a time, even if the sense that I need seven-league boots can be a bit overwhelming.
7. You know, I've always assumed this was all squarely in the realm of Sila. What do you think?
Cheers,
Florian
hi Florian,
you are like a cool ocean breeze passing through the shadow of a palm, in the noonday heat.
&Right back @tcha bro;
1. I would say, solid insight, massively-multiply confirmed on this end. I have adequate 3+ ways ( triangulated with consistency ) independently arisen & unbidden evidence extending back well over 3000 years. Reasonably I can only premise that it continues on back throughout the imponderable expanses of UNIVERSAL space/time. So, if you are somewhat unnerved by this effect/affect now...
2. Perhaps it is a bowl, perhaps it flattens to a wheel, the Tibetans have another name, dhyana, the Chinese call it China, Jhana by a another name, jhana, mana... recycle the can-na...
The mirror, true, wet, dry, scratched, broken, only the eye can tell, entirely transparent is another kind as Well... for the REST FULL.
3. It is an ongoing experiment. Cherry from an admin POV. May be even more so in any DhO -> 2.0 -> 2.5 or 3.0 transition / upgrade... thx for giving it a shot, as able... no guarantees, natch...
4.
"The connections go way back, over half and over three quarters of my life, respectively."As to distance, I think/feel I have made my allusions in this regard, near crystal clear... so...
"Some of the conditions originate with people who have long died, yet commitments and promises to keep remain."As to conditions, as the Buddha no less summarized, 'every child your mother', 'every son your wife', every life no less your own, a tangled web, a big old net, reach, for the beach...
Or; "If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?" - is a science fiction short story by Theodore Sturgeon. It first appeared in Harlan Ellison's ...
"For all that family ties are involuntary (yeah, but like you said, let's not get into this), they are very tenacious."I think/feel time / durations / proximities / quantities / qualities / space / one & all known vectors are factors:
Look to your own mirrors...
5. Well we have been whistling through the graveyard yet again or so it would seem, this time, so far, no?
6&7. All good children go... to heaven?
Like I have been saying, re: One, self, Us & All. Baby steps for newbies, practice, precision, crafts-(wo)man-ship, mastery as we go... forth.
Walk on Dude.
- triplethink/nathan