Theos-Talk Archives (March 2005 Message tt00018)

March 2 2005

Dear Mauri:

It's a very simple question (to me).

YOU at present, this moment, are (to me) a "SELF." [ I may call it: a
UNIT, MONAD, THINKER, etc...]

You, the SELF, lives in a "body." As we all do.

You look forward mentally, and you may have hopes, but nothing is definite
until you choose and act. 

Looking back, (in memory) you can see your choices have made, as "you" the
"SELF," in those conditions, and the choices you made then, and the current
results. 

In effect (as I see it) your present environment is the result of your past
choices. The "power to choose" resides in the SELF. 

But in what direction is that choice to be directed?

But, ask yourself when does the SELF either 'begin' or 'end.' ?

Best wishes, 

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mauri [mailto:mhart@idirect.ca] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 6:19 AM
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Theos-World RE: Self




W.Dallas TenBroeck wrote:
> Mar 1 2005
> 
> RE: Self


> If "you" think of "yourself," you are already thinking of a "self" that
has
> passed into memory. You are looking backward at what "you (memory) did."
> Or, am I wrong?

Dallas, are you equating "you" and 
"self" with "memory" and ... But 
"memory" has parts to it, so does one 
pick and choose parts from one's memory 
to represent "one's self," or what ... 
and, if so, "who" does that choosing ... 
and, if so, if that "who" is defined in 
some manner, "who" does that choosing 
... and, if so, if that "who" is defined 
in some manner, "who" does that choosing 
... etc, etc ... ^:-/ ...

My more or less current speculation 
about "self" would seem to suggest that 
it might be likened (at a stretch ...) 
to what "one" sees when looking trough a 
multi-colored, patterned window like the 
one's they have in some churches (where 
the "self/one" Is the seeing, itself, 
rather than some interpretive, 
second-hand, dualistic memory or karmic 
influence or colored window). "Just 
being" meditation for me seems to 
suggest that it might evolve, at some 
point, into a kind of transcending of 
the colors and patterns (karma/maya) in 
that window.

Speculatively,
Mauri







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