Theos-Talk Archives (May 2003 Message tt00149)

Dallas wrote: <<You lost me -- speculation does that -- 
it wanders. >>

It "wanders" for you? What can I say? I tried, I think
...

<<If you want "REALITY" then seek the permanent in 
yourself.>>

Dallas, I tend to suspect that you might be seeking 
some kind of "permanence" in "yourself," (are you, in 
some sense?) ... In my case, since I'm trying to "see" 
beyond my karmic, small s "self," I'm tending to feel 
that I don't seem to be as fundamentally interested (as 
some people, maybe ...) in cultivating/seeking small s 
"permanence" in my small s "self," apparently, "in a 
sense," not that ... And maybe you had in mind other 
variations on a theme of "s/Self"?

<< Go for the permanent and the universal, that is as I 
understand it the "doctrine of the Heart." (not the 
physiological, but the intellectual HEART)>>

"Intellectual HEART"? Could you have in mind a kind 
of combined intellectual/spiritual and sort of "heartish" 
thing, maybe, that might at least be more 
permanent/universal (in some sense?) than, say, some 
"less higher" forms of "heartish" or "spiritual" things 
that might tend to fizzle out along with human physical 
bodies? If that's what you meant to say, I tend to agree, 
in a sense, but/"but"...

<<Consult the VOICE OF THE SILENCE especially 
the 2nd section on the TWO PATHS.>>

Seeing as we seem to be often coming up with 
somewhat different evaluations while reading between 
the lines of such as VOTS, well ... But thanks for the 
tip. I'm somewhat speculatively planning on checking 
into that tomorrow ... 

Sorry about all those but/"but's," Dallas. That's my 
Zenificity slipping out, I guess. 

Speculatively,
Mauri

PS Incidentally, does anybody out there happen to 
know of a Zenific discussion list for would-be biters?
No? Okay. ^:-)