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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 14 2014, 11:16 AM (181 Views) | |
| crow | Jun 14 2014, 11:16 AM Post #1 |
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Strange and mysterious things happen when 'you' are not there. 'You' being your ego. Each morning I go outside on my back deck with a coffee and replenish the bird feeder. Shelled sunflower seeds, peanuts, and suet in a wire cage. There are lots of baby birds now, and they perch nearby, fluttering their wings as their parents hop to and from the feeder trying to satisfy them. Juncos, sparrows, nuthatches, chickadees, tanagers, finches, two species of woodpecker, jays, siskins, flycatchers, wrens... ![]() Today, as I was filling the suet cage, two chickadees landed on it as I held it, and then a female Hairy Woodpecker. Now this is very unusual. I can get close to these birds, but rarely this close. My nesting wren landed beside us while we all existed in this magical bubble of no-time. I've seen some very amazing things happen with these local birds, and have had some highly unlikely hands-on experiences. I can only imagine that such things occur when one is not one's ego, and thus invisible to the birds, who seem to lose track of where they end and where 'I' begin. There's magic all around, waiting to be noticed and participated in, by whatever remains when 'you' are not there. Edited by crow, Jun 14 2014, 11:19 AM.
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| "Squawk!" said the crow, and then made space. | |
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| Stencilmania | Jun 14 2014, 11:47 PM Post #2 |
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People believe a greater expenditure of effort yields the best rewards. This sort of thinking breeds laborers, not thinkers or even feelers. Once you involute the perspective of reality, both become contrasted with one another and the confidence in which you vest one perception of reality collapses. Then, it is bliss and nothing all at once- the noise dissipates, you are an extension rather than stoppage to reality. |
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Change alone is unchanging. --- Heraclitus //////// To the ego, the world is an infinite leap away. To the world, there is nothing. This explains the breach. | |
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| Sr. Owl | Jun 15 2014, 03:51 AM Post #3 |
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Pure spirituality is a return to the origin, where genuine harmony is experienced. Beyond ego, a flux of impersonal emotions arises and the hidden magic of life is revealed. This is true for any landscape. Even in the big city is possible to have spiritual experiences like this. Little by little, this possibility was unfolded to me, and gave rise to a new perspective. Reality is there, especially when you are not. And no circumstance should be capable of breaking that union. When reality isn't filtered with ego derivatives like self-interest, utility, vanity, fear, hope and other kinds of human projections, it is lived with spontaneity. This state of immediacy is what matters. |
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| welkyn | Jun 15 2014, 11:09 AM Post #4 |
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When "you" as the ego are present, reality seems to be absent; when "you" as reality are present, the ego is seen to be illusory. This is because reality is here before the ego arises, and remains when the ego subsides; it is only from the place of ego that reality can appear real or unreal. One could say: the absence of ego is presence itself. No "one" is present; there is simply presence. |
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| SorenL | Jun 16 2014, 02:27 AM Post #5 |
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Ego is only really ego when it's is perceived to be the absolute center of reality. For those of us, who have actually experienced life, ego has become something tangential. It may be there at times, while at others it may be completely absent - but never ever can it be seen as anything other than some minor detail, something not really worth paying attention to. When looking at the majority of others, and seeing how ego effectively ruins every aspect of their experience of life, it becomes impossible to see it as anything but a mental illness: The deliberate dissociation of one's self from the magical continuity of life, and wallowing ('identifying with') the misery that follows. |
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| Ardy | Dec 2 2017, 03:24 PM Post #6 |
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What a loss Soren is! Still, there are still his discussions here like smoke from a burnt out fire. |
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