posted June 28, 2007 03:02 AM         

because, to use 26T's quote on another thread, I guess he realized that

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The True Love is allied to awareness and not to the passing objects pleasing or displeasing of Awareness

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When/ if we become popular or famous there is always a risk of falling into the vanity trap, of ego...even if we weren't trapped into it before.

Because

POWER is the most seductive thing in the world. Meanwhile....

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the ageless melody, unheard, heals......the healing vision, unseen leads......the true leaders, unknown rescue....the rescuers, immortal, know....

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posted June 28, 2007 04:14 AM         

Great thoughts, ListensToTrees.

posted June 28, 2007 05:38 AM         

I have also been thinking, that to abandon the ego (if that is the right way of putting it).....I'll re-phrase it.....To keep the ego balanced we need to keep a balanced view of things. If someOne pays a compliment to another, I feel it is important for the person who receives the compliment not to let it feather the deceptive nest of vanity (lol, right now I couldn't think of another way to put it!)

The important thing to remember is that we all have our strengths and weaknesses, our positive and negative.
We all have it in us to be selfish as we do self-less; if one was completely selfless, however, they would get burnt out and this would be self-defeating.

I am well aware of my own faults and I am TRYING to find a balance. For example, vanity is one extreme end of the spectrum of the ego. Self hatred is the other extreme.

THE QUESTION IS- HOW do we find a BALANCE?

It is important to remember each of us has within us. This is seeing the bigger picture.

And THIS I feel, folks, is the basis that forms all the drama we see here in LL. We are not seeing the bigger picture. It is an endless battle of the fight for energy....someone gives a compliment....someone takes a compliment...they feel energized by this....later on, someone gives criticism, someone reacts to it.....as a result people start to feel DRAINED of energy.....

posted June 28, 2007 11:56 AM         

I would only suggest that you are already in balance.

With the act of trying to balance
arises the feeling of imbalance.

It is an error to desire balance.
Already, it creates Duality, -
a pushing and pulling between balance and imbalance.
And this struggle for balance is not balancing.

There is no "stopping".
Only the mind stops and starts.
Stopping the mind has its place,
but, beyond the mind,
there is something that is steady, always.
This is Awareness.
You are Always Aware.
Identify with Awareness,
and you do not stop and start with the mind.

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=eFai8OdfWm4&mode=related&search=
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posted June 28, 2007 01:15 PM         

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Where did that quote from Linda come from?!

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posted June 28, 2007 05:07 PM         

Jeff Buckley, New Year's Prayer: http://www.projectplaylist.com/musicsearch?searchfor=jeff+buckley+new+year%27s+prayer&search.x=0&search.y=0&search=search

Oooooo, Fall in light, fall in light. Fall in light, fall in light
Feel no shame for what you are (x5)
As you now are in your blood
Fall in light

Feel no shame for what you are
Feel no shame for what you are
Feel it as a water fall
Fall in light, ooh
Fall in light, fall in light, Fall in light, ooh
Fall in light, fall in light, fall in light
Grow in light

Stand absolved behind your electric chair, dancing
Stand absolved behind your electric chair, dancing
Past the sound within the sound
Past the voice within the voice

Leave your office
Run past your funeral
Leave your home, car
Leave your pulpit
Join us in the streets where we
Join us in the streets where we
Don’t belong, don’t belong
You and the stars
Throwing light

posted June 28, 2007 06:03 PM         

....we are talking about something, another realm, dimension, consciousness....

...which can be tuned into, tapped into.....in many ways, for example:

"To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Eternity in the palm of your hand
And Infinity in an Hour"

Love and GRACE (as in U2)

WARTS & all!!!

posted June 30, 2007 04:49 AM         

I had a horrible experience on this other website once, when people would strike out if you didn't agree with them or if you questioned the teachings, even though I questioned them in a respectful way.....they tried to make out that their sarcasm, etc was a way to help people let go of the seductive 'ego', when in fact all they were doing was bullying people's self-esteem! (You have to be careful because it takes all sorts in this world and so many, especially in this sort of thing, have real issues of their own).

posted June 30, 2007 04:53 AM         

She struggled with this whole thing for some Time. It was during a moment when she desperately longed for a teacher that one appeared. And he told her that desire itself was not the problem. But if she desired freedom above all other things, all the other problems surrounding desire would take care of themselves.