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1. Le vendredi 13 novembre 2009 à 11:24, par HJ

Dear Sensei,

I dont understand what BG said. Can you give another example?

2. Le vendredi 13 novembre 2009 à 18:04, par Tu es cela

Look at a door. Or a window. Or a pen. Or your knowledge of English or of the city where you live. You have notions about all those things: This is a door, this a window, this a pen, this is English, this is the way from my office to my home. These notions are both limiting and useful: You don't use the pen to eat and you don't go in and out the window, etc.

The trouble is that we tend to be "used" by our notions, to become limited by them.

3. Le samedi 14 novembre 2009 à 23:51, par little lake

even the mystic has his shoppinglist......
but what i this: a mystic?
bad joke.

but franckly - are we happy "to be used by them"!!!!???
i guess in this first milion of a second after opening ourselves to something - it is rather us that's using them - "to save us" from going into the unknown...

Aren't we - by our very own brain-nature - all word/concept-addicted?
As Kant told us it is impossible (make it: hard) to see? (read to be???) without the categorical "imperatif" comming in between ...

Let's watch ourself doing this over and over again.
Let us accept.
Let us find our fears which make us do this - and embrace them.
Let's be born over and over again into the unknown...

yes we can!

4. Le dimanche 15 novembre 2009 à 00:58, par wilde primula

the word egg has nothing to do with an egg -
still we call it an egg -
and that's exactly what it is: an egg.

5. Le lundi 16 novembre 2009 à 18:29, par Ting

“The trouble is that we tend to be "used" by our notions, to become limited by them.”

This is true for all notions.
But it gets interesting with notions I have strong feelings about.
Like “me”!

I noticed that today, when I felt underappreciated.
(How on earth can anyone ever sufficiently appreciate “me” ?)
I was upset.
Knowing how stupid it was to be upset about it didn’t really help.
I suppose this notion of “me” is deep, ha-ha.

6. Le lundi 16 novembre 2009 à 18:56, par Tu es cela

And yet if we crack that one notion (me), the other notions are all gone, too.

7. Le mardi 17 novembre 2009 à 09:29, par little lake

The other "notions" are in fact created as a negative to confirm "me"?
I confirm myself by creating a solid "other"?
Nothing wrong with the "other" being the "other" ? And with me being me?
But why do we have to identify with this "me"? why can't we just be it?

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