"Suppose this person is sitting in a place with a dear, a neutral, and a hostile person, himself being the fourth; then bandits come to him and say, 'Venerable sir, give us a bhikkhu'..." 1/5
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"...and on being asked why, they answer, 'So that we may kill him and use the blood of his throat as an offering'..." 2/5
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"...then if that bhikkhu thinks, 'Let them take this one, or this one,' he has not broken down the barriers. And also if he thinks, 'Let them take me but not these three,' he has not broken down the barriers either." 3/5
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"Why? Because he seeks the harm of him whom he wishes to be taken and seeks the welfare of the other only." 4/5
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"But it is when he does not see a single one among the four people to be given to the bandits and he directs his mind impartially towards himself and towards those three people that he has broken down the barriers." 5/5
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Well put. We don't have to be slaves to our genetics predispositions - if that's even what is really underlying this.
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Ordinarily, as we've come to see, the force of identity is culturally committed to patterns of low-level mind/body integral harmony; it functions through highly anisometric focal grid-net-works based on low-intensity, reduced-down circuits of filtrate polarization.
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The whole-value of Identity is very deeply invested in such reductive patterns, locked into committed identification with their cognitive terms. Therefore the force of identity is hypnotically equated with conditioned coordinates of perception and sensory-motor behaviors.
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