There is No Distance

[abrakamowse]

We have a lot of poets here, nice!

[nitramadas]

6 hours ago, abrakamowse said:

I was listening today to Shunyamurti and he said something like we want to be free from the mind.

That's true, but mostly in a "big picture" sense.  These "Gurus" or whatever have usually spent so long in Turquoise that they are unaware of the steps needed to get there.  They often never even had to take any steps themselves, they were pretty much born Turquoise.  For the same reason, native language speakers tend to make the worst teachers.  May sound counter-intuitive at first, but then you realize you don't remember ever actually learning your native language, in your earliest memories you were already fluent.  

 

Also, this thinking all you have to do is let go and live care-free is a common trap "new-agers" fall into.  They often think:

no problems = unaffected by problems = no ego response = no ego

 

It's healthy to challenge yourself and learn to be comfortable with discomfort.  Going towards the pain is the quickest path.

You could just choose not to engage your mind in problems, and that works to an extent.  That's called the "path of surrender".  But that alone isn't optimal, and is partly just pain avoidance.

[abrakamowse]

2 minutes ago, nitramadas said:

Going towards the pain is the quickest path.

 

2 minutes ago, nitramadas said:

that alone isn't optimal, and is partly just pain avoidance.

Ok, got you @nitramadas Thanks, that's something I was thinking about lately.