[MD] Buddhism's s/o

[Dan Glover]

Hello everyone

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Marsha Valkyr <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
>>Marsha:
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>>When I label intellectual patterns as SOM I am describing how they are
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>>perceived, or how they function in consciousness.  I-spov represent reified
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>>concepts and the rules for their manipulation.  Intellectual patterns create
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>>false boundaries, giving the illusion of independence, or 'thingness'. I
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>>understand this fourth level to represent a formalized subject/object
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>>level where the subjective is supposedly stripped from the experience
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>>to reveal an objective truth.
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>>Dan:
>>I understand intellectual patterns of value to represent ideas.
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> Marsha:
> Ideas that are ever-changing, dependent and impermanent?  I am so much
> more intrigued by the nature of all patterns, than the definition of the levels.

Dan:
Ideas arise, flourish, and fade away. I suspect that's the nature of
all patterns.

Marsha:
> The most interesting patterns are of the 'not this' and 'not that' variety, which
> covers all of them if you take the time to understand them.  But then it seems
> to me that you only need to understand a few to understand all of them, and
> there are better things to do with ones silence.  -  Too many words, right?

Dan:
I don't feel that I understand patterns of the 'not this, not that'
variety in an intellectual way, where I could hold a discussion.

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> Are you too busy fixing motorcycles to plant a garden?
>

Dan:
I don't plant gardens in the usual sense. I have gardens though. I do
enjoy fresh tomatoes and plant those all over the place... anwhere
there's a little sun. I even have some down behind the shop. It's been
an early planting season here, a good two or three weeks earlier than
normal. I see corn already coming up in farmers' fields where most
times they aren't planting till now.

Thanks for asking,

Dan