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Originally Posted by John Freestone  You write some good stuff wolfgang. Thanks for helping me think more about these issues. |
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kudos for your dedication of looking into Buddhism to the depth you did, not many seekers (or previously had been seekers) do/have done that much. I never got too formal with any of this. Sometimes I just like a good meditation and the buzz that last from it. And I don't think much about it other than, damn I feel lots better.
One thing I find interesting with looking into LoA is I keep running into how there's the idea of blocking what you are intending. Now if we just look at that concept and work on that, it is a common idea, don't you think? The integration of our denied self that we project outside of ourselves (psychologically) onto others is also this idea. Or that being so identified with our egos, is also this kind of idea. And the Buddhist take that attachment is suffering is this again, yeah? Jesus probably had something along these lines too, but I can't recall a good quote. Or other stuff I've read talked of embracing your dark side, that if we reject that which we don't like about what we are we never can heal it. Or that to approach that oneness realm is really about finding yourself in everything and that what we are normally habitually doing is being in denial of aspects of our true self and being fragmented by keeping our sense of self so close and defended.
Then I think those issues of baggage and conditioned mindless minds (and even choosing prejudice unwittingly) is what makes us not feel whole. That not feeling whole makes us look for a solution. It's like those existential issues puts a bug in us and won't let us rest. Then we wouldn't feel a need for a solution if we were whole. And to me it seems a lot of these ideas are saying: get whole somehow. Not chase something you might think will make you happy - including trying to be whole! lol.