Maeve

Famous Zen teachers would just whack you with a stick or cut off a finger. bam! Instant enlightenment.

I believe it’s honest to give proper credit for the idea.

Maybe we value the wrong things. Maybe greed is a lack perspective, too much isn’t enough. Kind of like people who lived during the Great Depression or had parents who insisted no penny would be spent on bubble gum.

Something about being careful what you wish for.

Strangely enough, we are often able to see each other’s shadow (Jung), and not our own.

Like Schrödinger and his cat?

I know and believe the sun will rise tomorrow.

No we don’t. Some unforeseen cosmic cataclysm could happen as I type this and obliterate our yellow star. I don’t believe it will, and have faith it won’t.

Like we believe in colors but there aren’t. It’s just the way light bends, reflects.

I went through that for the same reasons. If it was under our caregivers, they went through their traumas that caused that.

A scythe can be used for harvest, cutting a path, or murder. Tools are neutral, intent not so much. And purity doesn’t matter here. I can have purely loving intention and rob someone of their own. Or purely base intention and something beneficial occur by happenstance.

They have a belief that “it doesn’t matter”.

Maybe the belief is that it does matter. Gotta grind beyond what’s normal or healthy for too-long-extended periods. Or be homeless.

We can’t see wind either.

There’s something to be said for practicing detachment, too. Or rather the impermanence of things.

It’s also how Jacob got Leah and Rachel.

It’s not just the Orthodox. It pretty much is the whole Church, which is now and was then very political. Schismed people are malleable and controllable, and expedient for rulers. That is why I read the Ethiopian Bible, complete with mistranslations, then go do weeks or months of tedious research to find the actual translations, and what that meant in the ancient Judaism and its parent religions. It’s also why I feel free to discard anything after Jesus ’ teachings.

Orthodoxy aims to keep individuals schismed, Jesus aimed to unite them. House divided.

Vietnam? Cuba? Hard to say, never having been out of the Continental USA.

Your English is fine. The same words often evoke different mental images from one person to another. Sometimes I have trouble distinguishing when to embrace literal meanings and when to go with the general gist of words. Thanks for addressing my comment, a gentle reminder for me.

Google went live in 98? First Arch in 02?

I have no idea. We know what the sociopaths are working on singularity. We don’t know the species will survive long enough. Maybe a bug? Maybe an extraterrestrial life form.

Eta: I recently read an article about nematodes organizing themselves into a superstructure. Idk they can survive rapid climate change or not.