[MD] Thus spoke Lila
Jan-Anders
jananderses at telia.com
Fri Dec 10 08:01:43 PST 2010
Hi Marsha
I like making bread. I think making bread is an act of pure meditation.
The feeling of kneeding the dough give me a clear understanding how
Reality is changeable all the time. I never use a receipt, I just take
some of this and some of that. True to my doughy mind. Bread is just
whatever you think it is?
J-A
moq_discuss-request at lists.moqtalk.org wrote 2010-12-10 15.05:
> Greetings:
>
> I still think the best understanding of REALITY is found in Lila's words(LILA,
> Chapter 14): "...I'm whatever your questions turn me into. You don't see that.
> It's your questions that make me who I am. If you think I'm an angel then that's
> what I am. If you think I'm a whore then that's what I am. I'm whatever you
> think. And if you change your mind about me then I change too. So whatever
> Richard tells you, it's true. There's no way he can lie about me."? ? -? ?
> Reality is whatever you think it is (your patterns), there's no way you can lie
> about it, and if you change your understanding of reality, then reality changes
> too.? ?
>
>
>
> Here are something by David Bohm that says the same thing:
>
> "Reality is what we take to be true.? What we take to be true is what we
> believe.? What we believe is based upon our perceptions.? What we perceive
> depends upon what we look for.? What we look for depends on what we think.? What
> we think depends on what we perceive.? What we perceive determines what we
> believe.? What we believe determines what we take to be true.? What we take to
> be true is our reality."
>
> ? ? ? (Mathieu Ricard& Trinh Xuan Thuan, 'The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey
> to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet',p.121)
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