tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post86141699077788586..comments2023-10-24T09:51:27.658-04:00Comments on The Peaceful Self.com: Infinite Play: “A Joyful Participation in the Sorrows of the World”mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10978313265796058909noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-51544388882442474192011-10-19T20:42:37.578-04:002011-10-19T20:42:37.578-04:00"couldn't one say that the search for enl..."couldn't one say that the search for enlightenment is the finite game of trying to become an infinite player?"<br /><br />Indeed! Well put.<br /><br />So best to change the rules...<br />mikeSmikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10978313265796058909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-23623458265313174372011-10-18T23:16:27.303-04:002011-10-18T23:16:27.303-04:00couldn't one say that the search for enlighten...couldn't one say that the search for enlightenment is the finite game of trying to become an infinite player?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-16572402280006670832011-06-15T21:43:08.525-04:002011-06-15T21:43:08.525-04:00I am just popping in to comment on the art work yo...I am just popping in to comment on the art work you posted, fantastic stuff. Sorry mikeS...I didn't read any of it. Now if I say, "I don't care" about this stuff as you say, it is not that I don't care...but I really don't think I care. <br /><br />Most pleased to see all 3 of you alive. I think of you often and really hope all is well for everyone. <br /><br />Life is...grand!<br /><br />Love,<br />DenimAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-31893421969621755022011-06-15T07:04:19.317-04:002011-06-15T07:04:19.317-04:00Hey Nahnni and Arpita,
Glad to see you guys are s...Hey Nahnni and Arpita,<br /><br />Glad to see you guys are still out there and still thinkin' about this crazy stuff..<br /><br />mikeSmikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10978313265796058909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-5805962751853924472011-06-12T14:19:33.809-04:002011-06-12T14:19:33.809-04:00hello mike.
hello nahnni.
i hope you are both well...hello mike.<br />hello nahnni.<br />i hope you are both well these days!<br /><br />ummm... in all the conversation of ego and infinite playing and finite playing - what i don't see is taking "habit" into account. that conditioning of living in particular ways,or relating in particular ways - superhighway neural connections that become "default positions" ... pathway is so well established that it seems to be a lot of work to make another choice., - where one needs a sense of awareness around it - and then requires discipline to create another neural pathway - so one is not governed by habits. physical habits, mental habits, habits of expression.<br />so - when your friend the buddhist may be working actively with this. trying on a new ego story to dismantle previous habits... <br />as long as there is awareness around it - then that sounds quite skillful to me. especially if the newly adapted ego story opens up other posibilities to perceive and relate.<br /><br />seriousness is created by conditioned mind - as all thought forms are. but non-thought is not a remedy for seriousness. what i like about surprise - is not the surprise itself - not a new choice or experience of something... rather i like that it breaks up the constructs of habit, of fixation, of thought and intentional nonthought... and points to another sort of perception that is easier to see in that moment... a space-like freshness, always present but seldom noticed. a moment when mental chains fall away.<br /><br />the question that arises for me at that point - is what will one's ego story then do with that degree of freedom?arpitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03104673218514262727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-40472964552246958012011-06-09T13:10:18.200-04:002011-06-09T13:10:18.200-04:00Fabulous choice in artwork!
Perhaps this infinite...Fabulous choice in artwork!<br /><br />Perhaps this infinite player is the closest thing to enlightenment (freedom) that can be achieved in this life. Since I do not seek the big E, I couldn't be the one to say, but it does seem to be so. Also, I don't think it is a matter of things being right or wrong, but what is allowed and disallowed. Perhaps, too, this is where the dilemma of seriousness comes in with everyone playing on the grand chessboard of allowances and dis-allowances, which is perhaps what you are ultimately saying. <br /><br />And I suppose it is good to discover what one does take seriously or does not, in order to not take any of it serious at all nor ever more. Man's search for meaninglessness. Or something.<br /><br />LOL<br /><br />Your Friend,<br />~NahnniNahnninoreply@blogger.com