03-06-2013, 12:00 AM
i am neither rich or suffering; but then i am a warrior.
actually, petty tyrants are not only tolerated, the warrior who finds a good tyrant considers him/herself fortunate. CC uses the word 'forebearance' instead of tolerance as one of 5 attributes of warriorship.
personally, i've been both positions and find the warrior's far more impeccable. placing yourself against someone else IS conflict, not resolution.
"keep thinking" is not good advice in my experience. the nature of thinking is conflict/dualism. a thought in your mind exists only as the exclusion of all other potential thought... the same principle by which greed, wrong, imbalance (and intolerance) exist... same for charity, right, balance and tolerance. everything on the tonal table has a twin which defines it. there are no solutions in the 1st attention. the first att IS the "problem"... all of it. there's no set of conditions that isn't in conflict with some other set. the solution is to go unconditioned/2nd att. but few want true solution.
actually, petty tyrants are not only tolerated, the warrior who finds a good tyrant considers him/herself fortunate. CC uses the word 'forebearance' instead of tolerance as one of 5 attributes of warriorship.
personally, i've been both positions and find the warrior's far more impeccable. placing yourself against someone else IS conflict, not resolution.
"keep thinking" is not good advice in my experience. the nature of thinking is conflict/dualism. a thought in your mind exists only as the exclusion of all other potential thought... the same principle by which greed, wrong, imbalance (and intolerance) exist... same for charity, right, balance and tolerance. everything on the tonal table has a twin which defines it. there are no solutions in the 1st attention. the first att IS the "problem"... all of it. there's no set of conditions that isn't in conflict with some other set. the solution is to go unconditioned/2nd att. but few want true solution.