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GET RID OF THOSE STORIES!
DaltheJigsaw
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GET RID OF THOSE STORIES
"Your scientists and physicists are wrong. Your religions are misguided. Your new-age pundits are almost completely deluded. Your gurus, psychics and intuitives are openly full of self-inventing blather. And all of them want you to swallow and propagate their models — with good reason: they are directly interested in profiting from your participation in and activation of their myths. If you ignore them, they will perish. If you attend them, your capacity to experience and shape the flow of your own awareness and intelligence will be directly co-opted.
So if you want to become intimate with reality, get rid of those stories, FIRST. All of them. Particularly the ones you’ve grown most fond of — and definitely those you feel you must defend. After you’ve been outside the cage they comprise, you will be able to return and decide for yourself if any of them had any value, and what it was. Until then?
Set them down."
"The aspect of yourself you call ‘my mind’ is not your brain. It is a womb. And it is made to be penetrated not by human stories — but by the transentient flow of your own sources. And when this happens?
Your mind becomes pregnant, and you become… savant...."
http://www.organelle.org/organelle/skyBook/skyBook(p).html
"Your scientists and physicists are wrong. Your religions are misguided. Your new-age pundits are almost completely deluded. Your gurus, psychics and intuitives are openly full of self-inventing blather. And all of them want you to swallow and propagate their models — with good reason: they are directly interested in profiting from your participation in and activation of their myths. If you ignore them, they will perish. If you attend them, your capacity to experience and shape the flow of your own awareness and intelligence will be directly co-opted.
So if you want to become intimate with reality, get rid of those stories, FIRST. All of them. Particularly the ones you’ve grown most fond of — and definitely those you feel you must defend. After you’ve been outside the cage they comprise, you will be able to return and decide for yourself if any of them had any value, and what it was. Until then?
Set them down."
"The aspect of yourself you call ‘my mind’ is not your brain. It is a womb. And it is made to be penetrated not by human stories — but by the transentient flow of your own sources. And when this happens?
Your mind becomes pregnant, and you become… savant...."
http://www.organelle.org/organelle/skyBook/skyBook(p).html
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Thanks!
anyone trying to enforce a framework around you is doing you a disservice.
find out for yourself.
"The belief is fear-oriented. You would like to believe that you are immortal, but belief is just a belief, something pseudo, painted from the outside. Experience is totally different: it wells up within you, it is your own. And the moment you know, nothing can ever shake your knowing, can destroy your knowing." Osho
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In the libraries, all we have are reference books and instruction manuals.
In the homes, no child ever heard the magic words, "Once upon a time..."
And in the dawntime, no mammoth-skinned wearing hunter stood at the campfire and told a tale of bravery and struggle and loss.
And his wife never stood over the grave of her husband the hunter as the shaman told a story of a happy hunting ground where they would be reunited.
And nobody looked up at the moon and imagined a story of traveling to that place and living an adventure, long before the first rocket was invented, and then the next generation writes stories of traveling to the stars, before anyone knows how.
And nobody wrote a story recounting the horrors of war or wonders of exploration or heartbreak of tragedy, so that the rest of humanity could briefly be there and know what it was like.
Imagine a world without stories.
All you have to do is imagine a world without people.
The way it was explained to me is that everything you know or believe you learned through your five senses.
All the things you know may or may not be true (stories or concepts) and it is up to us to live life and decide what concepts we choose to call truth or non-truths.
The third part and most important I think is to not have attachments to outcomes based on concepts which leads to suffering.
I try to listen more to what others say and understand that their stories are experiences that have a deep meaning to them. It may not make sense or sound silly to me but, it is important to them and someday maybe I'll understand where they are coming from.
I read with compassion what you say and what I get from it is that maybe you realized some of your concepts were wrong and you felt trapped and now you are giving this advice to help free others? Sorry it isn't all clear to me but, I'd like to understand what your advice is. I personally am working hard to not tell others they are wrong as I feel it comes from my ego which is always getting my mouth in trouble.
I found this through browsing.
Thank you for your input!
— Alexander McCall Smith (In the Company of Cheerful Ladies)