12-17-2013, 12:00 AM
SelfHealedMadman wrote:No one's saying this stuff is easy. Actual progress is never
easy. It will tear your life all to hell, and that’s just the beginning. You
don’t make pretty sand mandalas and sweep them away to remind yourself of your
impermanence. You don’t try to figure out what your face looked like before you
were born. You don’t notice shiny things to enhance your awareness or count the
number of times you pass through a doorway. Maybe all you need is to lower your
defenses, a little at a time, over the course of a couple of years, like a slow
dying. But fast or slow, that's what it is: a dying. And what does all that
amount to?
What do you get for all that suffering and disillusionment? Salvation?
Liberation? Nirvana? Freedom? No. it just gets you back to square one.
You are a terrible salesman.
I'd like to show you what fun can do for your bottom line:
http://www.youtube.com/v/SByymar3bds&ve ... tube_gdata
easy. It will tear your life all to hell, and that’s just the beginning. You
don’t make pretty sand mandalas and sweep them away to remind yourself of your
impermanence. You don’t try to figure out what your face looked like before you
were born. You don’t notice shiny things to enhance your awareness or count the
number of times you pass through a doorway. Maybe all you need is to lower your
defenses, a little at a time, over the course of a couple of years, like a slow
dying. But fast or slow, that's what it is: a dying. And what does all that
amount to?
What do you get for all that suffering and disillusionment? Salvation?
Liberation? Nirvana? Freedom? No. it just gets you back to square one.
You are a terrible salesman.
I'd like to show you what fun can do for your bottom line:
http://www.youtube.com/v/SByymar3bds&ve ... tube_gdata