Enter the Foolish One

[No One]

And so I come into this fertile section, so much jubilance and latent potential, what does hinder us?

 

Greed, anger, stupidity. The five desires. Not to be shrugged off as irrelevant.

 

Massive cannabis session flashback to junior high typing this. Deserves its own thread.

Edited May 8, 2017 by No One

[roger]

what does hinder us?

 

Pride.

 

Or you could put it, specialness.

 

Another word, ego.

 

That's what I've been taught and in honesty I fully agree with it.

[Marblehead]

Fear will also hinder us.  Fear of the "truth"?  Perhaps.

 

And yes, the human vices will also hinder us.

 

But potential always remains to be used if the will to find these potentials exists.

[Rishi Das]

it would seem that No One is actually someone... welcome to the forum and glad to hear you feel the jubilance here! 

i do question your speaking of hindrances and latent potentials as if you know them to be true?
 

you do know what they call those human cells that refuse to be hindered and instead tap into their latent potential? cancer.

 

we know not and that which we do know is not complete in the slightest. all serves a purpose and that purpose lays away in the great beyond.

"What is extraordinary and eternal does not want to be bent by us."
― Rainer Maria Rilke
 

i say stick with the jubilance. if greed, anger, or stupidity should arrive, i say honor them as you would any other guest in your home. i mean seriously, can we ever really know?

 

Cheers.

Edited May 8, 2017 by Rishi Das

[Apech]

I can guarantee there is not one foolish person on DaoBums.

[cold]

No siree there be quite a few of us!

[liminal_luke]

I can guarantee there is not one foolish person on DaoBums.

 

But some of us come mighty close...

[roger]

Fear will also hinder us.  Fear of the "truth"?  Perhaps.

 

 

Fear of the truth.

 

That's the problem imo.

 

Why do we fear it?

 

Because truth is the demise of illusion, of our false self.

[Marblehead]

You said that better than I could have.