Comments on: The Art of Peace 4 http://www.redleopard.com/2007/08/the-art-of-peace-4/ A Stranger in a Strange Land Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:26:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: redleopard http://www.redleopard.com/2007/08/the-art-of-peace-4/comment-page-1/#comment-10 redleopard Fri, 03 Aug 2007 03:29:52 +0000 http://www.redleopard.site/?p=83#comment-10 I haven't posted from The Art of Peace in a while. But as I was writing the August Already, I was listening to Cat Power. Her voice resonates with me. The world seems a little less malevolent. We are all part of the same universe, all human beings. As such we all inherit the same Being of human beings. <--snip--> fast forward through lengthy existentialist rant <--snip--> It's in our inherited nature, in the Being of human being, to distance ourselves from everthing we consider "not me." It creates a huge gap between us and "not us". It's those considerations that run our lives. Our likes and dislikes run our lives. What we want and what we don't want runs our lives. We are possessed by our considerations. Anything that moves us in a direction of "less gap" reduces the grip that our considerations have over us. Moving towards that being (not merely the thought but the actual being) that we are all part of the same universe reduces the gap between us and "not us". Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything. – 紅豹 I haven’t posted from The Art of Peace in a while. But as I was writing the August Already, I was listening to Cat Power. Her voice resonates with me. The world seems a little less malevolent.

We are all part of the same universe, all human beings. As such we all inherit the same Being of human beings. <–snip–> fast forward through lengthy existentialist rant <–snip–> It’s in our inherited nature, in the Being of human being, to distance ourselves from everthing we consider “not me.” It creates a huge gap between us and “not us”.

It’s those considerations that run our lives. Our likes and dislikes run our lives. What we want and what we don’t want runs our lives. We are possessed by our considerations.

Anything that moves us in a direction of “less gap” reduces the grip that our considerations have over us. Moving towards that being (not merely the thought but the actual being) that we are all part of the same universe reduces the gap between us and “not us”.

Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

– 紅豹

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