I'm not a strong believer in astrology but sometimes astrologers can read a person's personality traits with uncanny accuracy by doing a natal chart. I knew a few & studied it a little bit. I also became adept with the Tarot. I've dabbled in most everything
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I wanted to learn the runes but never got around to it. Used to meditate a lot, shikantaza Zen style. Would meditate until my knees howled. Ha! But I got away from it. Meditation will mellow you out. But hell I'm mellow enough, now. Maybe too mellow.
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It is the seeking, in itself, which creates the suffering. It creates a divisiveness in the psyche, an unease, a disturbance. It is the "want", the "desire" which results in suffering. Wanting to be happy, you are unhappy. If there is no want, all is well.
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I think some are snake oil salespeople & others are just deluded people wanting it so bad they are deceiving themselves (and others). Yes, religion is based on fear. Capture the ppl's fear ("ur going to hell") & you can rule over them & fleece them, too.
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Again, these people are making money off of seekers. They keep them seeking, giving them things to do, exercises, lofty promises... like a carrot on stick, they drive the donkeys to buy their books & merchandise. And ppl are still just as unhappy in the end.
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“There’s a Seeker born every minute.”
- Firesign Theater
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