Comments on: Book Brain: One City http://www.traviseneix.com/book-brain-one-city/ Dedicated to looking at the self. Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Steve http://www.traviseneix.com/book-brain-one-city/comment-page-1/#comment-40195 Steve Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:34:31 +0000 http://www.traviseneix.com/book-brain-one-city/#comment-40195 Very well said. The shift is a small one but a lot of luggage is dropped then. The seventh ox awaits me, but no hurry, neither of us is inclined to go anywhere soon. Much Peace Very well said. The shift is a small one
but a lot of luggage is dropped then.
The seventh ox awaits me, but no hurry, neither of us is inclined to go anywhere
soon.

Much Peace

]]> By: Travis http://www.traviseneix.com/book-brain-one-city/comment-page-1/#comment-40138 Travis Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:46:16 +0000 http://www.traviseneix.com/book-brain-one-city/#comment-40138 They are good words. Don't apologize. ;-) I agree with you. The ego is not a villain until we paint it as such. Once seen for it's nature, it can be taken or left, just like everything else. I also agree that enlightenment has become a difficult word. It is too much built up, and set an an unattainable lofty goal. For me, as I have said in another post, enlightenment is only moving the truth of what you are from the realm of something you don't know that you know, to the realm of something that you know that you know. That shift changes nothing in life, but is a very good point from which to continue the play of life. Not a big deal. Buddha meditated after he drank from the well of Nirvana. The void of no-mind is the eighth of the Ten Ox Herding Pictures. Life is a practice and play that does not end. I believe we grok. ;-) They are good words. Don’t apologize. ;-)

I agree with you. The ego is not a villain until we paint it as such. Once seen for it’s nature, it can be taken or left, just like everything else.

I also agree that enlightenment has become a difficult word. It is too much built up, and set an an unattainable lofty goal. For me, as I have said in another post, enlightenment is only moving the truth of what you are from the realm of something you don’t know that you know, to the realm of something that you know that you know. That shift changes nothing in life, but is a very good point from which to continue the play of life. Not a big deal.

Buddha meditated after he drank from the well of Nirvana. The void of no-mind is the eighth of the Ten Ox Herding Pictures. Life is a practice and play that does not end.

I believe we grok. ;-)

]]> By: Steve http://www.traviseneix.com/book-brain-one-city/comment-page-1/#comment-40132 Steve Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:39:10 +0000 http://www.traviseneix.com/book-brain-one-city/#comment-40132 I've never read it, but Stephen Wingate put out a book called "The Outragous Myths of Enlightenment" and maybe this is the perception of many. What I have discovered is that nothing really violates common sense. Like everything this is easier discovered in hindsight. I have distaste for the word enlightenment because there is nothing objective to which it refers. I like the simplicity of "no self, no problem' but even this is wrong unless it is understood that it is not the end of ego which is sought, but the understanding of its nature. There is a similarity between the ego and a mirage. Both are real and unreal-objectively not real but experiencialy very real. The problem with humanity is that we take the ego to be objectively real. When it is discovered that it is essentially unreal, then it can be taken or left. More fun staying in pure Being of course, but when thought can be apprehended as just thought-not'my thought' then the pain and worry of being attached to thought disappears. Jesus, I'm wordy! My apologies. Cheers to you! I’ve never read it, but Stephen Wingate put out a book called “The Outragous Myths of Enlightenment” and maybe this is the perception of many. What I have discovered is that nothing really violates common sense. Like everything this is easier discovered in hindsight.
I have distaste for the word enlightenment because there is nothing objective to which it refers. I like the simplicity of “no self, no problem’ but even this is wrong unless it is understood that it is not the end of ego which is sought, but the understanding of its nature.
There is a similarity between the ego and a mirage. Both are real and unreal-objectively not real but experiencialy very real. The problem with humanity is that we take the ego to be objectively real. When it is discovered that it is essentially unreal, then it can be taken or left. More fun staying in pure Being of course, but when thought can be apprehended as just thought-not’my thought’ then the pain and worry of being attached to thought disappears.
Jesus, I’m wordy! My apologies.

Cheers to you!

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