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RE: Linking global context

• To: 'John Cowan' <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: RE: Linking global context
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:30:29 -0500
• Cc: martind@n..., xml-dev@l...

Going Phil folks.  Put on your wellios or delete.

>From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@r...]

>>"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" scripsit:

>> Some questions:  how does any member unattached to a 
>> network/community choose its community, and by what 
>> means does it signal such intentions?  

>No such thing.  A member that grows up without a community is
>only biologically human.  We do not choose; we are chosen.

But that is the issue of trancendence, John. 

The lesson of the Buddha is not one of 
magical realization, but of the simple 
and achievable human realization that one 
can trancend the network of ones' habits, 
go beyond the tools that are our sign systems 
to real inner directed choice.

When one learns to choose what chooses ones 
choices, one can transcend the network that 
chooses one.  This is the vital key to 
self-realization, and is so simple but so 
rare as to be a subject of study to itself; 
indeed, that is what the bodhisattva has 
studied.  Habits are acquired, but as 
practiced, become the shadow master of 
the individual.  In order to trancend 
that graph of constraining choices, one 
must gain mastery over habits.  One means 
is to use signs to reprogram the habits. 
Such is the meditation on symbols, but 
this truly only uses awareness of a habit to 
illuminate other habits until the realization 
of awareness itself is complete.

A single individual is a network.   It can 
choose its friends, but first it must be 
aware of the power of its choices, and learn  
to choose based on scaling or amplification 
of effect in the interior network as well 
as the network environment. 

len

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