Hi James

Lovely to see you around again! 👋

I really enjoyed the insights you shared. ❤️

Today it struck me that this children’s rhyme was particularly poignant.

Row, row, row the boat, gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily. Life is but a dream. 💤

Wow! Wow, Thomas168/ Tommy-

You said it perfectly. I am so impressed with you, and grateful that you are back here- honest, direct, valid.

I have a new appreciation of you this Sat night, 8:53 pm here.

🌿🤍 Anita

Hi James,

Preaching is spouting your beliefs in front of others. Imposing beliefs and ideas is propaganda. The difference is minor in its presentation. All beliefs and ideas are human. That is what we are. Human. With faults and problems. Yet we go on because that is what we do. Yes all beliefs and ideas arise and falls within the universe. But, people do not heal completely all at once. Realization doesn’t happen without knowing there is a separate self or ego. And one can not help others by preaching from the mountain top. But, must come down to see the people as they are and find that which relates to them.

And, as I have said before, there is truth in your words. But, they apply to a certain group with a certain state of mind to receive the words. As someone once said, teach according to the way people can learn and understand. If you do not then you will not reach all the people. Not everyone will understand, “Therefore, Only way to completely heal is realization of what You really are, which is untouched and always here, and can not be hurt, because there is nothing there.” So, if there is nothing there them why do I feel hurt??

Therefore, i am not talking top of the mountain, just talking directly.

You are talking as if from the top of a mountain. Not talking of the top of the mountain.
You talk this way because,

The reason why i am talking this way is no one who impose to have self spiritual healing, dogmas, beliefs, etc… can help with suffering.

So do you impose to have spiritual healing, dogmas, beliefs, etc so you can not help those with suffering??

There is no other to stop suffering, and only way is the let go the self.

There is. And it is on a different level than the one you speak of. It is to let the person, who is traumatized, know that they are seen and heard. That they are not alone. You see, I am not talking absolutes reality but conventional reality. Not from on top of the mountain but eye to eye. You can’t help anyone because you only see suffering as a result of having an ego or self. Where I see that wisdom and compassion comes from being able to communicate with others at the level they need to understand. To see their suffering and help them in a way that bring comfort and understanding.

This can be seen in the story of master Dogen and the woman whose baby died. The woman could not accept the death of her baby. And pleaded with master Dogen to bring her baby back to life. Master Dogen told her to bring three grains of rice from three different houses where death had never occurred and he would help her. The woman went to every house in the village and the next town. After such exhaustive search, she could not find sucha house that had no deaths. She finally came to accept the death of her baby.

Understanding doesn’t come from proclaiming your suffering will end when your I dies. It comes from the effort given in the search for the truth. A dollar given is never the same as the dollar earned from hard work. One can not achieve the death of the ego by saying I now proclaim my ego dead. So suffering doesn’t stop by letting go of the self when one doesn’t know what a self is.

Yeah, should have taken my own advice and shut the heck up.