[MD] Everything/Nothing, or should I get a life?

[MarshaV]

At 08:49 AM 5/30/2007, you wrote:


>[Marsha]
>
>I wonder how you could alter this?   Ham's thesis was interesting
>(ignoring the creationist stuff), but probably meditation is the best
>process.
>
>[Ron]
>Marsha,
>I have struggled with this for a long time. The brain is a strange
>thing. I meditate,
>and I am aware of the dichotomy of perception and try to be aware that
>good lies in the bad
>that opposites imply wholeness. It is the gut level, heat of the moment
>experiences
>that take the most concentration and are the most difficult. Knowing
>these things
>I should not experience anger, depression and anxiety but I do...I think
>the biggest lesson
>I've learned through it is that these emotions are every bit as viable
>and meaningfull
>as the positive emotions and trying to quell them is to deny a
>meaningful experience.
>
>  It takes courage to live a honost life, good and bad is in me not the
>world, to avoid
>the bad and adhere to the good is living half a life. So, to answer your
>question
>of how to alter this perception I think having the courage to accept and
>be open
>to all experience, warts and all, is the best way to overcome this, but
>that's my opinion.
>
>  This is my course with my tiny skull, to remain open in happiness and
>pain, and allow
>myself to feel.


Hi Ron,

I use that silly little pronoun "I" all the time.   But most of the 
time it is the product of cosmic whimsy.  Good and bad are a part of 
the humor.  If you follow a thought back to its I-root, you will 
discover it is without beginning.  That's pretty funny!!!

And as SA might say, if he were me:  And she twirl, and she whirl and 
she tango...

Marsha