One cannot claim this as being right as long as you are conditioned.
The content of our consciousness is our consciousness. No more, no less.
These are the words that K used and it is up to us whether these words make sense or not.
To me they are making sense as I tried to explain in the previous interference.
But… has one read it?
Knowing all that you know, should all that you know be the ultimate authority?
Should I keep insisting on being a barrier to intelligence/forgiveness/compassion? Can I not allow for awareness of, and freedom from the experience I am subjecting myself to?
Not to forever and ever become the ultimate mega buddha, but just now in this instant abandon the struggle.
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One cannot claim anything about anything as long as you are conditioned.
All the conditioned brain can do is be honest enough to admit that it’s confused.
While still conditioned, no confusion detected in those two descriptions, though.
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@inquiry : i read your questions and i cannot answer them for you.
Hope you have put them to yourself in the first place.
Keep well!
…said the self-deceiving brain…
Now I got confused. Isn’t it time to stop the thread? Goodbye!
Now you’re giving me the advice I gave to you…
Don’t assume that every question posed wants, needs, or has an answer. A good question is one that turns attention away from the usual places.
Well … we are even now!
The “ultimate authority” is whatever we can verify, ascertain, if I’m not mistaken.
Should I keep insisting on being a barrier to intelligence/forgiveness/compassion?
Do you have any choice when it’s your conditioning that determines your stream of consciousness, your beliefs and suspicions, your behavior? Do you have any choice when you believe choice is freedom?
Can I not allow for awareness of, and freedom from the experience I am subjecting myself to?
Not if all you can do is choose. You can’t choose freedom from choosing.
Not to forever and ever become the ultimate mega buddha, but just now in this instant abandon the struggle.
I don’t see how the conditioned brain can abandon its conditioning until it sees its conditioning for what it is. In other words, the brain can’t be free until it’s free.
But don’t be discouraged! Keep plugging away. What else can you do when you have no choice but to choose?
@Inquiry what is your motivation in these discussions?
When you reply to me what is the intention? Are you aware of that? In this moment what is the drive? What is the quality of the space you are in? Is awareness of this experience possible (an awareness that changes the experience if just for an instant) or is there only the all powerful drive?
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Before you interrogate another, can you be absolutely certain you know what motivates you to participate here?
Well, I suppose you got me there.
I am forced to reply one of the following (multiple choice answer):
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who’s making up these new rules of engagement?
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Na na na na poo poo!
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Before you interrogate another, can you be absolutely certain etc?
You asked me, “what is your motivation in these discussions?”, and because I don’t honestly know (or I can’t be certain), my reply was, “Before you interrogate another, can you be absolutely certain you know what motivates you to participate here?”, and to this you replied with spluttering.
So neither one of us knows what moves us to engage in this exercise. I take this as evidence that the conditioned brain is too confused to know anything with certainty.
Confusion, a whirling mass of unrelated elements that blur and block and prevent clarity is the weather of the conditioned brain, and the weather man (or woman) is I, the voice of knowing who tells us what to expect and reminds us of what we like to think we know.
Does emptiness exist at all? Maybe that emptiness you feel is something. What do you think?