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#1 2010-02-13 11:35:51

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Sorrow

Seeing the energy of youth wasted on becoming and struggling and acquiring, bargaining to ignore what they see in exchange for just a little more of the world. There is always tomorrow to be serious, and somehow who each is justifies picking and choosing the terms of existence.

The world rewards the choices and reinforces the blindness. Over time, the path becomes built in and harder to escape-- insidious.

Stubbornness doesn’t see that its energy is not its own.

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#2 2012-06-22 13:45:40

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Correct . Stubbornness does not exist on its own. Self will can pursue, defend,deny, repress, suppress sacrifice, do almost anything to achieve a goal .Personal  will, will defend a premise, or principle, an ideal, or purpose, even the purpose to be a nobody, or not humble spiritual leader, is denied by will.   I am a nobody in spiritual circles already implies, I want followers even if I make the false claims I do not .  Can you imagine a man in school to learn politics saying i am a nobody, or I wanna become a nobody ?

Who cares anywhere what we think we are except when we are in groups that suggest a value to the becoming  they look on in a favorable light ?   There is no value in being a nobody because everyone that thinks,or asserts  they are a somebody, or a nobody, is already trapped in defending themselves being something, a living entity, not thought, not matter, not memory, not anything  that is  definable,  they never investigated as true, or not for themselves .  :-)

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#3 2012-06-22 14:03:38

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Re: Sorrow

beans wrote:

Seeing the energy of youth wasted

The world rewards the choices and reinforces the blindness. Over time, the path becomes built in and harder to escape-- insidious.

There is no such thing as "wasted energy" in this universe(sorry to burst your dualistic bubble).  Even if there was, there is certainly no energy shortage, nor a shortage of "youth",  in fact there is an infinite surplus.

The world may indeed "reward" something, but last time checked the universe doesn't "reward blindness".   See if you can expand your narrow vision a little and perhaps the "world" will merge into all-that-is and not be given such illusory importance in the grand flow of things.

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#4 2012-06-22 17:36:16

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Re: Sorrow

There is no such thing as wasted energy, Eden? Just consider something like controlling an emotion-like fear, anger, etc. Is it fruitfull? Is it practical? Practical in the sense is it based on facts & therefore can have the desired outcome-that is resolution of it?If not, is not the exercise a wastage of energy?

No shortage of youth......there is an infinit surplus?

Dear sir, million years from now the earth will be just a dusty planet without a single plant.All these must end.

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#5 2012-06-22 17:57:19

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Re: Sorrow

beans wrote:

Seeing the energy of youth wasted on becoming and struggling and acquiring, bargaining to ignore what they see in exchange for just a little more of the world. There is always tomorrow to be serious, and somehow who each is justifies picking and choosing the terms of existence.

The world rewards the choices and reinforces the blindness. Over time, the path becomes built in and harder to escape-- insidious.

Stubbornness doesn’t see that its energy is not its own.

Whose energy is it?

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#6 2012-06-22 17:59:54

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Jayaraj wrote:

There is no such thing as wasted energy, Eden? Just consider something like controlling an emotion-like fear, anger, etc. Is it fruitfull? Is it practical? Practical in the sense is it based on facts & therefore can have the desired outcome-that is resolution of it?If not, is not the exercise a wastage of energy?

No shortage of youth......there is an infinit surplus?

Dear sir. million years from now the earth will be just a dusty planet without a single plant.All these must end.

He's just talking in abstract terms, things written by some abstract minds, which made sense to eden, so they were accepted.
  The whole thing is intellectual.

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#7 2012-06-22 18:05:30

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Beans, my email? I guess I should browse the internet & find a few people. I'll wait for your reply & do that.

Sorry for the digression at the beginning itself of the thread!

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#8 2012-06-22 18:56:46

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Re: Sorrow

Jayaraj wrote:

There is no such thing as wasted energy, Eden? Just consider something like controlling an emotion-like fear, anger, etc. Is it fruitfull? Is it practical? Practical in the sense is it based on facts & therefore can have the desired outcome-that is resolution of it?If not, is not the exercise a wastage of energy?

No shortage of youth......there is an infinit surplus?

Dear sir, million years from now the earth will be just a dusty planet without a single plant.All these must end.

"ending" is an illusion, obviously.  ending and beginning are one and the same, simultaneous in fact. guess you haven't noticed?

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#9 2012-06-22 20:19:20

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Re: Sorrow

Eden wrote:

"ending" is an illusion, obviously.  ending and beginning are one and the same, simultaneous in fact. guess you haven't noticed?

Eden, let me wonk that thought of yours around a bit; it makes some sort of sense, and I want to see what sense I read into it.

Given that simultaneous at-once change, the only place it will fit is to make it a dimension of its own. If we make it the ground dimension, then everything in that dimension is in flux. That would make that dimension the undifferentiated dimension.

tree would say here that this is this is the god in which all things are possible. I could add that such a dimension, if it were to have practical applications, must be everywhere and nowhere, ubique et nusquam. This is to say that the ground of everything is the singular dimension, the dimension of ubique et nusquam, the dimension of one.

Now, what you would be saying that there is only the dimension of one and that there are no other dimensions. There is no ending that is not a beginning, there is no still, there is no absence of change.

I am not sure I would buy that without looking more closely at the ending of that dimension by letting it divide into two. Just a suggestion, mind you.

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#10 2012-06-23 01:06:32

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Re: Sorrow

wilbro99 wrote:

I could add that such a dimension, if it were to have practical applications, must be everywhere and nowhere, ubique et nusquam. This is to say that the ground of everything is the singular dimension, the dimension of ubique et nusquam, the dimension of one.

Now, what you would be saying that there is only the dimension of one and that there are no other dimensions. There is no ending that is not a beginning, there is no still, there is no absence of change.

I am not sure I would buy that without looking more closely at the ending of that dimension by letting it divide into two. Just a suggestion, mind you.

everywhere vs nowhere is yet another fragmentation of that which is one.

dimensions(plural) is also yet another fragmentation of that which is one. 

something ending by dividing into two is not ending at all. 

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#11 2012-06-23 01:32:09

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That's Ok Eden, you can be forgiven, which I shall, for not catching my meaning of everywhere and nowhere; it was not one contra the other, but the single dimension necessary to make an all of any given universe.

I guess you do not wonk. I give lessons, for free, providing you pick up a 6-pack of UF!

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#12 2012-06-23 01:51:57

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Re: Sorrow

wilbro99 wrote:

That's Ok Eden, you can be forgiven, which I shall, for not catching my meaning of everywhere and nowhere; it was not one contra the other, but the single dimension necessary to make an all of any given universe.

Then might I suggest removing the space between the words(and the conjunction) and refer to it henceforth as everywherenowhere. That would at least be one step out of the flatulence cloud.

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#13 2012-06-23 04:26:54

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Thanks, Eden, I suspect the context had you buffaloed.

Not to worry, though, I am not thinking of steaks.

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#14 2012-06-23 19:44:43

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Re: Sorrow

Eden wrote:

Jayaraj wrote:

There is no such thing as wasted energy, Eden? Just consider something like controlling an emotion-like fear, anger, etc. Is it fruitfull? Is it practical? Practical in the sense is it based on facts & therefore can have the desired outcome-that is resolution of it?If not, is not the exercise a wastage of energy?

No shortage of youth......there is an infinit surplus?

Dear sir, million years from now the earth will be just a dusty planet without a single plant.All these must end.

"ending" is an illusion, obviously.  ending and beginning are one and the same, simultaneous in fact. guess you haven't noticed?

Sorry sir, I think this is just rhetoric, without really knowing what it means, evading my post!

Ending is the beginning, you say. That's another isuue. Probably it means that which ends reaches energy & which begins begins with energy. So where it began it ends.

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#15 2012-06-24 06:43:23

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Re: Sorrow

Jayaraj wrote:

Beans, my email? I guess I should browse the internet & find a few people. I'll wait for your reply & do that.

Sorry for the digression at the beginning itself of the thread!

Hi, Jayaraj. Sorry, I have been crazy with work and business travel. Will reply...

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#16 2012-06-24 06:53:35

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Re: Sorrow

everyone wrote:

Correct . Stubbornness does not exist on its own. Self will can pursue, defend,deny, repress, suppress sacrifice, do almost anything to achieve a goal .Personal  will, will defend a premise, or principle, an ideal, or purpose, even the purpose to be a nobody, or not humble spiritual leader, is denied by will.   I am a nobody in spiritual circles already implies, I want followers even if I make the false claims I do not .  Can you imagine a man in school to learn politics saying i am a nobody, or I wanna become a nobody ?

Who cares anywhere what we think we are except when we are in groups that suggest a value to the becoming  they look on in a favorable light ?   There is no value in being a nobody because everyone that thinks,or asserts  they are a somebody, or a nobody, is already trapped in defending themselves being something, a living entity, not thought, not matter, not memory, not anything  that is  definable,  they never investigated as true, or not for themselves .  :-)

Yes.
That post was made 2 yrs and 4mos ago. I think it had a reply and a counter reply, both deleted :-)

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#17 2012-06-24 06:57:48

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Re: Sorrow

Eden wrote:

beans wrote:

Seeing the energy of youth wasted

The world rewards the choices and reinforces the blindness. Over time, the path becomes built in and harder to escape-- insidious.

There is no such thing as "wasted energy" in this universe(sorry to burst your dualistic bubble).  Even if there was, there is certainly no energy shortage, nor a shortage of "youth",  in fact there is an infinite surplus.

The world may indeed "reward" something, but last time checked the universe doesn't "reward blindness".   See if you can expand your narrow vision a little and perhaps the "world" will merge into all-that-is and not be given such illusory importance in the grand flow of things.

Dear eden, wish you could see outside of that system of thought, but as long as it serves your purposes I guess that won't happen.

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#18 2012-06-24 07:02:24

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Re: Sorrow

bruce sean wrote:

beans wrote:

Seeing the energy of youth wasted on becoming and struggling and acquiring, bargaining to ignore what they see in exchange for just a little more of the world. There is always tomorrow to be serious, and somehow who each is justifies picking and choosing the terms of existence.

The world rewards the choices and reinforces the blindness. Over time, the path becomes built in and harder to escape-- insidious.

Stubbornness doesn’t see that its energy is not its own.

Whose energy is it?

The point is that it is not owned by a person who believes him/herself to be a separate, controlling entity - even if that entity is overlaid with an image of Nobody.

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#19 2012-06-24 09:24:55

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Re: Sorrow

beans wrote:

everyone wrote:

Correct . Stubbornness does not exist on its own. Self will can pursue, defend,deny, repress, suppress sacrifice, do almost anything to achieve a goal .Personal  will, will defend a premise, or principle, an ideal, or purpose, even the purpose to be a nobody, or not humble spiritual leader, is denied by will.   I am a nobody in spiritual circles already implies, I want followers even if I make the false claims I do not .  Can you imagine a man in school to learn politics saying i am a nobody, or I wanna become a nobody ?

Who cares anywhere what we think we are except when we are in groups that suggest a value to the becoming  they look on in a favorable light ?   There is no value in being a nobody because everyone that thinks,or asserts  they are a somebody, or a nobody, is already trapped in defending themselves being something, a living entity, not thought, not matter, not memory, not anything  that is  definable,  they never investigated as true, or not for themselves .  :-)

Yes.
That post was made 2 yrs and 4mos ago. I think it had a reply and a counter reply, both deleted :-)

I have  not looked through all the posts that have never been responded to but this one showed zero . I did not understand why and it just felt well worthy of a response .Thank you for explaining . It might be old but sorrow is an  ever new subject, that seems to have  a life of its own to me regardless of who wants to inquire into it, and see some more of its internal, and external expressions, in the present . :-)

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#20 2012-06-24 19:21:00

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Re: Sorrow

Sorrow probably comes and goes for most of us; sadness probably does for any human. What would you call that feeling that comes after a deep sorrow has been gone through - perhaps it accompanies 'compassion', but feels like a sunset in the heart. Sorry to be so flowery, not my style, but am not sure there are words to describe it.

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#21 2012-06-24 19:23:54

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Re: Sorrow

I think some get stuck in sorrow as a way of being.

As if the answers can somehow be found by remaining there....

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#22 2012-06-24 19:28:20

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Re: Sorrow

beans wrote:

Sorrow probably comes and goes for most of us; sadness probably does for any human. What would you call that feeling that comes after a deep sorrow has been gone through - perhaps it accompanies 'compassion', but feels like a sunset in the heart. Sorry to be so flowery, not my style, but am not sure there are words to describe it.

How about a sunrise of  the heart, or the sun after a heavy rain storm . Yes Beans is there any such thing as a permanent feeling for any human being and would life not be terrible if we did not have a wealth of rich vital feelings, and compassion at the right times to  . I see there is not a permanent emotion or thought .    :-)

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#23 2012-06-24 19:35:23

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Re: Sorrow

everyone wrote:

How about a sunrise of  the heart, or the sun after a heavy rain storm . Yes Beans is there any such thing as a permanent feeling for any human being and would life not be terrible if we did not have a wealth of rich vital feelings, and compassion at the right times to  . I see there is not a permanent emotion or thought .    :-)

Those descriptions touch on it also.

No, there is no permanent feeling and they are all sensations that come as a package deal with life :-) Such as sadness.

However part of sorrow is a thought that things should be other than what they are, wouldn't you say?

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#24 2012-06-24 19:44:50

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Re: Sorrow

beans wrote:

everyone wrote:

How about a sunrise of  the heart, or the sun after a heavy rain storm . Yes Beans is there any such thing as a permanent feeling for any human being and would life not be terrible if we did not have a wealth of rich vital feelings, and compassion at the right times to  . I see there is not a permanent emotion or thought .    :-)

Those descriptions touch on it also.

No, there is no permanent feeling and they are all sensations that come as a package deal with life :-) Such as sadness.

However part of sorrow is a thought that things should be other than what they are, wouldn't you say?

yes Beans that is part of it to this should not be .  I would say for me what I have seen is that sorrow is mostly why me, or self pity . I do not see sorrow as a path to anything wonderful, or any awakening . Yes I agree a lot of people nurture sorrow thinking it is spiritual . :-)

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#25 2012-06-24 19:53:26

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Re: Sorrow

everyone wrote:

yes Beans that is part of it to this should not be .  I would say for me what I have seen is that sorrow is mostly why me, or self pity . I do not see sorrow as a path to anything wonderful, or any awakening . Yes I agree a lot of people nurture sorrow thinking it is spiritual . :-)

Well, ditto on that too. Sorrow can be for another's suffering or an animal's or species' suffering also, though - am not sure it's always related to self-pity.

Yes, many with Christian upbringing seem to think that sorrow is spiritual :-)

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