Comments on: Does Anyone Really Want to be Free? http://www.takuin.com/does-anyone-really-want-to-be-free/ { The Writing of Takuin Minamoto } Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:25:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: takuin http://www.takuin.com/does-anyone-really-want-to-be-free/comment-page-1/#comment-58 takuin Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:53:31 +0000 http://www.takuin.com/2007/04/27/does-anyone-really-want-to-be-free/#comment-58 Nice...you have a full-house and it sounds wonderful. Have a great time. See you around here sometime. Takuin Nice…you have a full-house and it sounds wonderful. Have a great time.

See you around here sometime.

Takuin

]]> By: Patricia - Spiritual Journey Of A Lightworker http://www.takuin.com/does-anyone-really-want-to-be-free/comment-page-1/#comment-57 Patricia - Spiritual Journey Of A Lightworker Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:57:42 +0000 http://www.takuin.com/2007/04/27/does-anyone-really-want-to-be-free/#comment-57 Takuin, Thanks, I also like what I have seen of your site so far. I haven't had as much time online this week as I usually do. My daughter, son-in-law and 4 grandchildren are here visiting from Idaho. I will read more when they go home. You have a calmness about you that shines through your words. Have a glorious day. Takuin, Thanks, I also like what I have seen of your site so far. I haven’t had as much time online this week as I usually do. My daughter, son-in-law and 4 grandchildren are here visiting from Idaho. I will read more when they go home. You have a calmness about you that shines through your words. Have a glorious day.

]]> By: takuin http://www.takuin.com/does-anyone-really-want-to-be-free/comment-page-1/#comment-55 takuin Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:03:38 +0000 http://www.takuin.com/2007/04/27/does-anyone-really-want-to-be-free/#comment-55 I have heard only nice things about Sai Baba and intend to read some of that body of work at some point. Not to learn, but because those writings interest me. A step below liberation is thinking you need to become something in order to be liberated. Why should we leave our body behind in order to become complete spiritual essence when we are already there? We already possess the highest wisdom and are all we will ever be. "Becoming" something implies a process; time is involved. Liberation, or being in the moment, requires no time at all. Wanting to become something keeps me from what I already am. Thanks for your comment, Patricia. I enjoy your site, by the way. Takuin I have heard only nice things about Sai Baba and intend to read some of that body of work at some point. Not to learn, but because those writings interest me.

A step below liberation is thinking you need to become something in order to be liberated. Why should we leave our body behind in order to become complete spiritual essence when we are already there? We already possess the highest wisdom and are all we will ever be.

“Becoming” something implies a process; time is involved. Liberation, or being in the moment, requires no time at all.

Wanting to become something keeps me from what I already am.

Thanks for your comment, Patricia. I enjoy your site, by the way.

Takuin

]]> By: Patricia - Spiritual Journey Of A Lightworker http://www.takuin.com/does-anyone-really-want-to-be-free/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Patricia - Spiritual Journey Of A Lightworker Sun, 05 Aug 2007 17:30:16 +0000 http://www.takuin.com/2007/04/27/does-anyone-really-want-to-be-free/#comment-54 Sai Baba of India is one of my teachers. He has many people asking him for Liberation. I read a book about him in which one person asked him for liberation and his reply was that true liberation is leaving the human body behind to become completely our spiritual essence of one with the Universe and the Source of all that is. I would think that away living in the moment would be a step below that of complete liberation. To be in the moment, you are still in the body but aware that you are part of the Source. Sai Baba of India is one of my teachers. He has many people asking him for Liberation. I read a book about him in which one person asked him for liberation and his reply was that true liberation is leaving the human body behind to become completely our spiritual essence of one with the Universe and the Source of all that is. I would think that away living in the moment would be a step below that of complete liberation. To be in the moment, you are still in the body but aware that you are part of the Source.

]]> By: Enlightenment versus Subjective reality - Personal Development for Smart People Forums http://www.takuin.com/does-anyone-really-want-to-be-free/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Enlightenment versus Subjective reality - Personal Development for Smart People Forums Fri, 11 May 2007 11:19:38 +0000 http://www.takuin.com/2007/04/27/does-anyone-really-want-to-be-free/#comment-19 [...] freedom (or to be in the moment). I wrote a little bit about it in my blog a few weeks ago. You can check it out here. [...] [...] freedom (or to be in the moment). I wrote a little bit about it in my blog a few weeks ago. You can check it out here. [...]

]]> By: takuin http://www.takuin.com/does-anyone-really-want-to-be-free/comment-page-1/#comment-18 takuin Tue, 08 May 2007 17:25:09 +0000 http://www.takuin.com/2007/04/27/does-anyone-really-want-to-be-free/#comment-18 It is might be possible, but it is an extremely dangerous business. If the way becomes most important, then nothing has been seen. I am hesitant to do anything other than express myself here. But that is the purpose of this site; to figure out what is here, now that everything has gone. It is death, but I am not sure that "ego death" is the explanaition. Our egos are composed of our thoughts anyway; a solidified segment of thought that we have adopted as us, for whatever reason. I cannot see the ego as being different from any other thought (or grouping of thoughts). But we give it importance and set it up as the center of activity. That is a dangerous trap; the center thinks itself to somehow be seperate from the rest of thought. It wants to control and escape from the other thoughts, never realizing that it is composed of the same stuff. That would be like physically trying to escape from yourself. It is crazy, isn't it? It is might be possible, but it is an extremely dangerous business. If the way becomes most important, then nothing has been seen. I am hesitant to do anything other than express myself here. But that is the purpose of this site; to figure out what is here, now that everything has gone.

It is death, but I am not sure that “ego death” is the explanaition. Our egos are composed of our thoughts anyway; a solidified segment of thought that we have adopted as us, for whatever reason. I cannot see the ego as being different from any other thought (or grouping of thoughts). But we give it importance and set it up as the center of activity.

That is a dangerous trap; the center thinks itself to somehow be seperate from the rest of thought. It wants to control and escape from the other thoughts, never realizing that it is composed of the same stuff. That would be like physically trying to escape from yourself.

It is crazy, isn’t it?

]]> By: Mark http://www.takuin.com/does-anyone-really-want-to-be-free/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Mark Mon, 30 Apr 2007 03:02:41 +0000 http://www.takuin.com/2007/04/27/does-anyone-really-want-to-be-free/#comment-16 It sounds as if you're talking about ego death. Would that be a signpost pointing in the same direction, at least? I suspect that kind of living can be taught. It is a way in which many people have said they live, or professed to teach how to live. And you yourself are there. Perhaps your path to that place could be adapted by others to allow their path to lead to the same place? It sounds as if you’re talking about ego death. Would that be a signpost pointing in the same direction, at least?

I suspect that kind of living can be taught. It is a way in which many people have said they live, or professed to teach how to live. And you yourself are there. Perhaps your path to that place could be adapted by others to allow their path to lead to the same place?

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