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Mature Evolution
lobster
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From another thread:
I'm pretty sure that just growing up and maturing follows most of the same milestones as Awakening anyway.
Maturity independent of age and life experience? Are we in a sense, through dharma trying to accelerate our personal evolution/maturity? Are the experienced sangha and practitioners those exhibiting more mature traits?
Is it time to give up my wubby cushion for a firmer meditation seat?
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Oops, I thought that was a photo of nan.
Tee hee.
Whose nan? I think she looks a little bloated . . .
. . . give us this day our daily bread . . . oops wrong religion . . .
. . . and now back to any real dough rising . . .
The person you quoted in your OP must have put the 'r' in raving . . .
Raving aside, I can't help but notice what appear to be correlations. They look like correlations. The dramas of young adulthood versus those of middle and older adulthood seem to line up with the development of an individual self and then its surrender.
It reminds me (from the vantage point of 50 years of age) of an all-out barn-raising of epic proportions that, at some point in mid-life, looks a lot more like a mere scaffolding MEANT to be build and then dismantled to reveal . . . well, nothing
but for some reason, that nothing feels perfectly right, timely, appropriate, and immanently workable 
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In other words, that 'nothing' revealed as the scaffolding falls away was not 'there' before.
Or perhaps, it was not apprehended.
In effect, though, this nothingness WAS, indeed, the goal from the beginning.
Now, back to raving
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