depression

*Hugs to you Lynn* Bless you! I'm often so thoroughly misunderstood that it's quite surprising when someone gets my meaning without thinking me a total.... well whatever it is they think of me. If I talk long enough there's sure to be blatant inconsistencies which.. dammit!.... can't be helped in the course of funneling quite complex (yet simple haha) and paradoxical awareness through the narrow confines of human language. Foot-in-mouth syndrome can't be avoided. HAHAHA! So I admit up front... the shit shall be flung, bring protection, & enter conversation with me at your own risk. :smilielol5:

 

:cheers2:

I'm reminded of that movie Night at the Museum.

 

Well Bluesafire, it appears I've brought out the best in you yet again.

One of these day we're going to have to try it without the subconscious filtration.

Travis

 

You first. :toetap05:

 

We'd have to be on equal footing for that to happen. So far, I've just been sending you postcards from the front lines.

Travis

 

blues:

travis:

I think this, and i find it hard to describe ... when it comes to ego it is only my own ego that gets in the way of seeing the totality of another... the 'mite in mine own eye' if you like, ... others can be as egoic as they like, but their egoic state is not them, not their true self, so their ego need obstruct nothing to my perception if my perception is clear ... it is simply a state of perception and understanding that one has, and temporarily at that. - like Eckhart sais, ... are you looking at a stone statue or an angel? It's up to you and no other.

I remember last year blues, you made several posts inquiring into ego and i myself was learning mutch about the minutae of the workings of ego myself, and i came to a point where i thought "Why am i spending so mutch time inquiring as to who people are not? I should enquire as to who people really are instead." And so i stopped being so concerned about who people are not, and i felt it was a good lesson for me, and i've been doing so ever since. And the upshot of that is that i do agree with this statement:

 

...why don't we all just worry about our own egos and let others tend to their own...kinda like... before picking the splinter from your brothers eye, remove the plank from your own...I mean we are all just trying to be right, or one up-ing one another on this thread aren't we?...including me, I'm full of it...LOL...ego that is...

 

Who wants a fight then? C'mon! Ya bunch of sissy egos!! Outside now and we'll find out who's really got the biggest eh?

Ah, but really. It's about whether we identify with ego is it not? Do we see egoic behaviour in another and think it is really them? If we have a huge ego of our own we probably would ...especially if we don't understand what ego really is ... and to the same degree with oneself. And ego is just a defence yes?

 

I'm a big fan of Swami Beyondanandas' Guide to Enlightenment. Rule #8 is a good one: "I know great earth changes have been predicted for the future, so if you’re looking to avoid earthquakes, my advice is simple. When you find a fault, just don’t dwell on it." And rule #1 is "fundamental": "Be a fundamentalist--make sure the fun always comes before da mental."

 

OK, now that ^^^ is just funny as all get out!

 

I'm already convinced I can.

huh.....so I'm not the only one. Although a bit different. Yours seems to revolve around a need for people to follow/appreciate you. Mine are usually about power and control, and not in the people-factor, sophist sort of way.

 

Reminds me of those white faith healers that are on BET (black entertainment television) no offense. I saw a report on those guys a while back that shows that the people that he supposedly "heals" are people that were prechosen by his staff to answer a questionnaire so he knew everything about them.

Sorry, that site just reminded me of that.

 

I assume the report that you're talking about had to do with the faith healers on BET? Because I can personally testify to the effectiveness of EFT, as I've used it on myself and on other people. And I have no doubt this wasn't a "setup" on the part of the EFT founder.

 

Same diff.

Funny how people will take a statement made in a very specific (and limited) context and extrapolate upon it with their own speculation. I chaulk it up to fear of the unknown.

Travis

 

Just how I perceived it.

 

Well, that puts you in a bit of a sticky situation, then, doesn't it?

Travis

 

Hey, it's all I've got.

Although, you do remember that conversation we had about reading in between the lines, right?

 

So self-deception is all you have? I don't think so, Neo.

Assumptions don't qualify as reading between the lines.

Travis

 

Well, if I'm wrong, then it's all I have this afternoon.

Outside of "I am", I'm basically full of assumptions.