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Re: ramble, then pointedness

Yesterday, after a few months of quietly poking and prodding
and trying to get the sense of what a specific and fairly new
community beleives, I decided to disconnect myself.

Some of this was because I feel a stirring in some of the
other communities I try to be part of, and I've been reminded
of the amazing love that is there. Some is because they are
just so horrifically bad at using e-mail that I can't help but
flinch when I see it. But mostly I think it's because they
profess to feel love for everyone, and yet still fiercely
maintain a very strong sense of a seperate "them."

Defining a "them" is very subtle sometimes. Many of the most
enlightened beings that I have the pleasure of knowing will
still fall into that trap, especially when talking about
politics (WE wouldn't allow those policies, it must be THEM.)

But once this seperateness is defined, it's too easy to forget
that "they" are just as human as we are, just as confused and
scared, muddling through life and doing the best they can just
like everyone else.

Yes, this even includes Bush and Ashcroft. The root of all
of their crimes has been to define a very narrow "us" for
themselves, and thereby act negatively towards the remaining
"them" (which includes the "us" of most of us here.) The
same could be said for any of the evils in the world.

And yet I notice as I write this that I began it by defining
that community as something seperate from myself. All of
them are good people, all capable of understanding these
concepts in time, and I'm sure they have things to teach me
as well.

Enlightenment, then, would be to not only intellectually
understand the un-seperateness of "us" and "them" (which is
just another corollary to the un-seperateness of human
consciousness and the infinite), but also for those important
understandings to permeate to the deepest level and bubble
up with every thought or action.
Wednesday, April 3. 2002
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