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“the probability that this universe is base reality and not a computer simulation is one in a billion” --Elon Musk

I actually do not agree with this because, even as great a genius as he is, Elon cannot know all possibilities, which will always skew the probabilities.  But, still his argument is fascinating:

Stop defining yourself.-- Jed Naropa

 Your thoughts reflect against the surface of your reality which is a duality. Only through non-duality can you understand The Tao. --Paul Gongwang (very old hermit)

Wisdom tells me I am nothing, love tells me I am everything, between the two my life flows.--- Nisargadatta (The great non-dual master)

If someone says they are enlightened, they are not.-- Jed Naropa

11 minutes ago, OldDog said:

The confusing statement has to do with Daoist meditation and alchemy.

 

Within the center of the heart-mind, there is another heart-mind. In this heart of the heart–mind, there is a resonance (intent) which precedes words.

 

It refers, as I understand it, to a kind of spiritual intelligence that develops within but apart from understanding gained through words or experienced through emotions. 

 

I am still pondering this idea but it has a certain appeal. This is largely the subject matter of The Thread of Dao, by Dan G Ried, where he goes into great detail comparing and contrasting what he calls proto-daoist texts. 

First hinted at in the Upanishads about 600-900 BC

voided- my apologies

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If writers could see inside the minds of four year olds, the greatest stories would be told.-- Jed Stuart

By means of the mind you store the mind, within the mind there is another mind.  That mind within the mind, it is an awareness that precedes words.-- Inward Training (nei-yeh)

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14 hours ago, Limahong said:

 

Hi moment,

 

Sure...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- LimA

Hi Lima,

Wow! $40,000 reward dead or alive!  What would that be today?  Somewhere around two million dollars?  She managed to stay alive and proactive with a bounty like that on her head.  Tough, smart, determined and most importantly--completely in the right!

2 hours ago, Limahong said:

 

Hi moment,

 

Thank you for the correction. Your introduction of the 'Underground Railroad ' is my first knowledge of it. I have Google more on it since.

 

The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century, and used by African-American slaves to escape into free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. The term is also applied to the abolitionists, both black and white, free and enslaved, who aided the fugitives. Various other routes led to Mexico or overseas. The network now generally known as the Underground Railroad was formed in the late 1700's ... and reached its height between 1850 and 1860. One estimate suggests that by 1850, 100,000 slaves had escaped via the "Railroad".

- Wikipedia

 

Harriet Tubman: Conductor of the Underground Railroad  (America's Story from America's Library)
After Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery, she returned to slave-holding states many times to help other slaves escape. She led them safely to the northern free states and to Canada. It was very dangerous to be a runaway slave. There were rewards for their capture, and ads like you see here described slaves in detail. Whenever Tubman led a group of slaves to freedom, she placed herself in great danger. There was a bounty offered for her capture because she was a fugitive slave herself, and she was breaking the law in slave states by helping other slaves escape. What do you think Tubman did when someone she was helping became frightened and wanted to turn back? 

If anyone ever wanted to change his or her mind during the journey to freedom and return, Tubman pulled out a gun and said, "You'll be free or die a slave!" Tubman knew that if anyone turned back, it would put her and the other escaping slaves in danger of discovery, capture or even death. She became so well known for leading slaves to freedom that Tubman became known as the "Moses of Her People." Many slaves dreaming of freedom sang the spiritual "Go Down Moses." Slaves hoped a savior would deliver them from slavery just as Moses had delivered the Israelites from slavery.

Tubman made 19 trips to Maryland and helped 300 people to freedom. During these dangerous journeys she helped rescue members of her own family, including her 70-year-old parents. At one point, rewards for Tubman's capture totaled $40,000. Yet, she was never captured and never failed to deliver her "passengers" to safety. As Tubman herself said, "On my Underground Railroad I [never] run my train off [the] track [and] I never [lost] a passenger." 

 

 

Thank you for sharing. I have corrected the error in my post (on-ca ~ take note).

 

I am beginning to think of Harriet Tubman's freedom in relation to my own freedom ~ re my search for it in Taoism/Buddhism.

 

But I will do it above ground per a road less traveled ~ RealWay.

 

- LimA

Not a bad role model to have.

4 hours ago, Limahong said:

 

Hi on-ca,

 

Hope there are no distractions that have caused you any "problems".

 

If there are, the problems can be avoided by following the above mapped freedom routes (- - ->).

 

Avoid Harriet Tubman...

 

 

- LimA

Do not avoid her.  Harriet Tubman was exactly the person you would want leading you to freedom.

at the very least, someone should call the fashion police.

I get your point but, I still think it looks funny.

1 hour ago, Limahong said:

 

Hi moment,

 

 

- LimA

Always a pleasure, Lima, but, a red gi with an orange belt?

on-ca,

We are all noobs.  Some have just been at it longer is all.

17 minutes ago, ONE said:

Dear Karen
Its no game I'm playing
I'm an honest and naive man
Who didn't decide yet what will
He be when he will grew up (and
I'm in my 50s ).

I could have responded Nungali
Style ,ah you don't like games
So what about foreplay, but i didn't
Its not my style.

Oh please

This may be his most famous quote.  Most of us have seen it before.  But I, for one, need to be reminded now and then.

A good traveler has no fixed plans
and is not intent upon arriving.
A good artist lets his intuition
lead him wherever it wants.
A good scientist has freed himself of concepts
and keeps his mind open to what is.

Thus the Master is available to all people
and doesn't reject anyone.
He is ready to use all situations
and doesn't waste anything.
This is called embodying the light.

What is a good man but a bad man's teacher?
What is a bad man but a good man's job?
If you don't understand this, you will get lost,
however intelligent you are.
It is the great secret.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Until you learn to focus that energy into other avenues-- just relax and enjoy.  No need to worry, plenty of applications and avenues are now open to you.  This site will be helpful.

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air, and to eat and sleep with the earth.

                                                                    Walt Whitman

“If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.”
~ Shunryu Suzuki ‎

 ‎”The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgement. The intensity of the suffering depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.”
~ Eckhart Tolle