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Subject: Re: [OM] Alt Dot Life [was ... Sacrilege? Sedition??]
From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:34:46 -0400
So the guide is guiding while advising not to be guided. Makes perfect sense to 
me. There are no paths to enlightenment except in hindsight. Unless, of course, 
you're speaking literally, about electricity, and the light bulb, which 
enlightened the world. In a manner of speaking.

--Bob


On Apr 20, 2012, at 3:55 AM, Andrew Fildes wrote:

> Does that include this great teaching as well?
> Sorry, classic philosophic conundrum - should a stoic regard the principles 
> of stoicism with suspicion as well.
> I can image this quotation continuing in the next paragraph - "So cast away 
> also this book for it too will inhibit your originality. Do not use this as a 
> guide for you need no guide. Wander aimlessly in search of the fire and, if 
> you do not discover it, be contented to remain in the dark secure in the 
> knowledge that your fire was not intense enough and your quest is uncorrupted 
> by the will of others."
> :-)
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.soultheft.com
> 
> 
> 
> On 20/04/2012, at 7:20 AM, Moose wrote:
> 
>> "ZEN SAYS: Think of all the great words and great teachings as your deadly 
>> enemy. Avoid them, because you have to find 
>> your own source. You have not to be a follower, an imitator. You have to be 
>> an original individual; you have to find your innermost core 
>> on your own, with no guide, no guiding scriptures. It is a dark night, but 
>> with the intense fire of inquiry you are 
>> bound to come to the sunrise. Every body who has burned with intense inquiry 
>> has found the sunrise."
>> Ohso, Zen: Turning In, Chapter 10

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