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Blind Obligation
Tell me friends, how do you come about your obligations? Onerous ones? No, all. Good question. Training from parents. Yes, parents for me too, and husband. Being born. A lot is programmed for me. Voluntarily. Then you are well set, but is all your voluntary behaviour self chosen? Are there many ways to define obligation?…
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Fears Blind Spots
Fear can be trained in kung fu to be awareness of set point and twitch point. When you twitch vs. the other person’s twitching. Indeed, kung fu is a good way to train your fear, and it is a good practice to train your fear. Your fear doesn’t actually want to do you any harm.…
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Blind Passion is the Root of Suffering
Virtue is the only path to feeling good. As humans we move away from pressure, why? To preserve virtue, even to the point of applying pressure to preserve their own virtue. It does not feel good. So it’s safe to say all creatures main goal is to “feel good.” But there are many false ways to…
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Blind Man’s Elephant
I have seen people use silence as a way to get someone to say things they don’t want to. They just ask a question and stare at you, not saying a word and letting you stew in the silence. That is the way of Ganesha also, and the way of the genuine guru. If you…
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Blind to the Ivory Pillar
So yes, whenever you are having what seems to be a single thought, or a single experience, you are actually having many. Some scientists dismiss this as neural noise, but I am confident they will discover the truth is otherwise. Your brain doesn’t automatically know anything as much as it’s convinced you it has. A whole…