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Lili

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Re: Jed Rant... You are special
« Reply #15 on: August 10, 2016, 10:10:44 am »
Nice Rant...
Thank you.  :)

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Re: Jed Rant... You are special
« Reply #16 on: August 11, 2016, 07:55:42 am »
Hmm. I care to differ from your usual "further..."
Don't go any further. Halt. Lay down. Close the eyes. Relax. Let be. Let unfold. Further, not as a verb. But rather as gravity doing its thing. The river flowing. Further, because it's only natural, it's not a destination, but rather a simple fact.

Love, Mori

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« Reply #17 on: August 11, 2016, 12:43:11 pm »
i dunno jed, i see a baby and i see flat-out vulnerability. open for everything that arises, sure, but what choice would one have, not having a developed musculoskeletal system or a developed ego?

as the thoughtimages click by - in the baby i see an impulse, a willingness that must be present in order for the baby to become upright and eventually walk. ego in its most unadulterated form, the act of willing oneself into this dreamworld. the human impulse. i also see a curiosity and a determination to take in the world through the senses.

i am neither baby, nor adult. am i human? if i am willing to believe i am. immortality cannot play because it has no opponent.

i can't say whether i'm picking, or painting, or both. i can say it's possible to appreciate it without knowing what it is.



Jed McKenna

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Re: Jed Rant... You are special
« Reply #18 on: August 11, 2016, 09:47:23 pm »
Yes, it certainly is.

Love ya, Jed

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« Reply #19 on: August 12, 2016, 11:08:43 am »
Picking at the encrusted painting, expecting some beautiful image to appear, is an apt metaphor for the ego in seeker mode. Wait till the actual threads of the canvas you think you are picking at, begin unwinding right before (your?) disassembling self and the realization settles in that there was never a canvas nor a picker, nose or otherwise.

Fun to join the fray for a moment Jed, what with Specialness and Art in the same rant!? Thought you were talking about someone I once knew...   ;)

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Re: Jed Rant... You are special
« Reply #20 on: August 13, 2016, 04:15:17 am »
The difficult part is when you expect anything in particular you have just added almost impenetrable barriers to what is. Chip away with no expectation. Chip for the sake of chipping only. Nothing more.

Love ya, Jed.

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« Reply #21 on: August 24, 2016, 04:07:10 am »
When a story is added to a static image, that image comes alive, becomes dynamic in one's mind.
« Last Edit: August 26, 2017, 02:24:53 am by Lian »

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« Reply #22 on: August 25, 2016, 10:38:29 am »
an image is lifeless. story can do nothing to make it otherwise.

what is aware of images and stories?


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Re: Jed Rant... You are special
« Reply #23 on: August 27, 2016, 07:34:30 pm »
Love yah, Jed.
Thanks.

Lian

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« Reply #24 on: September 11, 2016, 11:29:37 am »
Awakening is heart-breaking. A broken heart (ego) is free and alive.

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Re: Jed Rant... You are special
« Reply #25 on: September 11, 2016, 11:37:54 am »
...and a broken heart is just another story...

Love ya, Jed.

Lian

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« Reply #26 on: October 26, 2016, 12:09:19 am »
The story of always giving energy to something one likes in order to maintain it indefinitely, may be the source of all obsessions.
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Re: Jed Rant... You are special
« Reply #27 on: October 26, 2016, 01:13:52 am »
... and the source of all suffering.

Cheers.

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« Reply #28 on: October 28, 2016, 06:30:03 am »
I thought I had to be false in order to be accepted, so all my life I tried to be someone else.

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Re: Jed Rant... You are special
« Reply #29 on: October 28, 2016, 06:35:49 am »
Virtually everyone is in the same boat. Nothing special.

Love ya, Jed.