Dispassion

[egodust]

Ian wrote:
> At 06:43 PM 6/6/96 GMT, egodust wrote:
>
>   >                   The real issue is
>   >                   how attached we are
>   >                   to cranking the Wheel.
>
>
> IAN: The mind is as attached as it is real. The arising and passing
> of thoughts and actions binds nobody to anything. I am no more
> attached than the mind thinks I am:  attachment = thought
>
> If I want to be free, I think I am bound; I am bound if I want to
> be free. Desire for liberation is bondage; bondage is desire for
> liberation. I am always free right now, it is nobody who thinks
> "I am not."
>

Agree wholeheartedly.  Well put, too. However, from the naive mundane
standpoint (which is where the [impossible dream of] ego operates) the
implication is "how attached we THINK we are..."

>
> The attachment of internal mind (A) to external world (~A) is
> a logical expression of their inherent unity. Thus attachment
> is liberation, samsara is nirvana, the light is the dark.
>

Here again is revealed the silliness of the mind's Commander-in-Chief: Reason.
Of course we're not expected to carry around the information that 1 = 0  or
A = ~A.  These are tools devised by mind to disslove mind.  When the job is
done--like cannon fodder--they're thrown away.

shaanthi.