Emelgee

Hi Wendy 🙂

I appreciate your comments. 🙂

To be honest, there isn’t much that people say that bothers me personally. I speak when I want to, about what I want to and I don’t have too much concern if that bothers other people. Having said that, if a person attempts to emotionally/intellectually manipulate me into certain responses or…[Read more]

AA – you conveniently forget in most of your posts that your truth is simply that, “yours”. You are entitled to your opinion, as is everyone else on this board. Further, in my view, it is arrogance of the highest level to believe your view represents some level of consciousness that other people have yet to achieve (I am referring to your…[Read more]

For my part, nothing I said in my “piffle post” was intended to be taken too very seriously or too very personally. As I recall I even said that AA had many words of wisdom in his post – other than my taking issue with the concept of a character flaw.

But, I cannot control another person’s emotional/intellectual reaction nor will I take…[Read more]

I think that whilst personal cultivation is very helpful in allowing one to work with their own “issues”, it is foolhardy to presume to know the inner workings of anyone else.

Peace
E

Character flaw, schmaracter flaw. Sorry, AA 🙂 Otherwise – AA has many words of wisdom.

Steve – it is a stage you are experiencing; no more no less. Many people have experienced exactly what you are so eloquently describing. If you continue along the path, things will align…Friends will go and new friends will join you. The feeling of…[Read more]

Truly beautiful dynamic…

These are the relationships I want to cultivate in my life. I know I am not yet at a point of being clear enough within myself to achieve this but when the time is right, then it will be.

Thank you for putting something I have been pondering for quite a while into words, Wendy.

E.

Hello 🙂

Wendy and Pietro – what you say strikes a chord in me. Good encapsulation of the dynamics of relationships!

Personally, I find it uninspiring to only be ever involved with one person. I have no desire to be married or live with anyone (although I live happily with my flatmate!) – but I still very much enjoy the company of men. I…[Read more]

the letter to the smiling hearts came at a really good time for me

cheers 🙂

i do not believe it is possible (or healthy) to experience neutrality or happiness 100% of the time and consequently i have no fear of my anger or of expressing it 🙂 i don’t often get angry but in this instance having watched months of disrespect and other people within the forum attempting to “absorb” and “work with” the disrespect, my patience…[Read more]

go where you feel the need to be but proceed gently…if it starts to overwhelm or feel “unwell” in any way then go back to your teacher/friend and ask for their advice

sometimes i have gone places and felt not good or sick and so i pull back from it…then try again a little later (as in days or weeks later) and other places have opened up and…[Read more]

The thing is – by acknowledging that their immaturity annoys me – it doesn’t mean I am off centre. It means I recognise the annoyance and acknowledge it and I can do both of these things without losing my smile!

Anyway – I move back to silence now.

E.

but in this particular instance I just do not believe that coddling or letting the poor behaviour continue without respite is going to help anyone.

E.

Hi Dog

I have no problem with different views but did you miss the not so subtle reference to walking into someone’s church and screaming there is no God? That isn’t offering a differing opinion in any kind of constructive manner.

It is funny that when someone else is being a jerk – the response is often to look within yourself at your…[Read more]

Morning, A

Where do you go from here? Probably nowhere in the immediate future 🙂 (At least not in any kind of obvious way). I kept it short yesterday as I was ill.

But you have reminded me of something I had heard somewhere re quantum physics etc so I will re-investigate and probably be back with more thoughts at some point in the…[Read more]

I think there is already a book called “Daoism for Dummies” (I am not joking!).

Good points, A. Thanks.

I know that for me at the moment my path is related to accepting/understanding all the parts of myself. Learning how to take the good with the bad. And probably more importantly for me – seeing the goodness and potential for things in myself and being unafraid to share these with others.

Maybe that is why these days I am generally more…[Read more]

Hey MB

I hear what you are saying about the “authority within”.

Emelgee

But is it possible to “create” the reality? I don’t think so. I think we can evolve how we think/feel/operate within the reality – but the reality is set to a certain extent. That is not to dismiss our own potentialities or possibilities of creation, but maybe some of the discontent that is felt by society in general is fuelled by (what I…[Read more]

Perhaps the differentiation is that once this happens, a person would still recognise the desire but not be driven by it? So the “desire nature” itself doesn’t necessarily fade away (to nothing) but it’s emphasis on a person’s life fades away?

Just wondering
Emelgee