Resist Nothing?

Everything is vibration and luminosity. The helpful version is don't judge by appearances but rather use right judgement.

 

Everything is its appearance. Judge as you will and by your best, for there is no final judgement.

 

until you change your mind

No everything is not it's appearance. For example it's disappearance.

 

LOL

I wrote 'no' final judgement.

And when has anything ever been its disappearance? :-D

 

I haven't read the story but my take is that our lives consist of a series of sensations one followed by the other some of which we may call pleasant and some not so pleasant, no matter how else we may concern ourselves unless we don't concern ourselves with pleasantries.

 

I know you did. Amber alert!

 

Your idea of finality is... limited. :-D

So, how is everything not its appearance? As a vanishing act, you don't appear to be pulling it off properly! lol

 

exactly

 

What happens then?

So you acknowledge that everything's its appearance? If not, how isn't it? Are you hiding something we don't know?

 

abracadbra? lol

 

Everything.

No I don't." As a vanishing act I don't make much of an appearance."

 

And it doesn't anyway? Why the distinction concerning concern with pleasantries?

None whatsoever. And you remain silent over how you think everything isn't its appearance. I miss the days when you used to show us camoflaged insects! :-D

 

You can concern yourself with pleasantries or not is the distinction.

You don't miss the days I used to care about showing you only for what appears now.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObeJpmdeyQ4

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sm3dX7GquY

 

Submit to the New World Order. Love your servitude. Typical new age bullshit to prepare us for total enslavement.

 

The story of the Zen master goes something like this: He's falsely accused of getting a girl pregnant and he responds "is that so". Then he is told to take care of the baby and he responds "is that so". After a few years of raising the child with loving kindness the mom wants it back and he responds "is that so". Then he has an accident and needs to spend weeks in the hospital. Someone tells him he is very unlucky and he responds, "maybe". While he's in the hospital his house falls into the ocean. Someone tells him that he is very lucky to be in the hospital instead of the house and he responds, "maybe".

 

What enslavement?

 

I stuggle with this too. I tried to disengage from my ego for a while, meditating and reading Eckhart Tolle and I like what he says but I am still unable to disidentify with my ego and starting to think maybe the ego is needed to fully express ourselves and accept ourselves 100%. I, personally find it a confusing issue.

 

be attracted to nothing, save that it actually return real gratification, and not merely symbols of it.

merely a suggestion of course, but to my mind at least, the one that makes the most sense.

of course this means not taking for granted what actually does and does not.

(anything else really is enslavement, whether it be the use of credit, and subsequent attachment to whatever is acquired by its means, or equally enslavement to religious dogma. one 'drug' such as perhaps a work ethic, is as much a drug, as another, like television, excitement, or trying to impress anyone)