Comments on: The Waiting Is The Hardest Part http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/ The search for Truth and the nature of reality. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:01:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Charlie Hayes http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-591 Charlie Hayes Sat, 25 Feb 2006 08:50:57 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-591 rich daddy gots the answers thas' why he be rich, daddy rich daddy gots the answers
thas’ why he be rich, daddy

]]> By: Rich Daddy http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-584 Rich Daddy Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:11:35 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-584 Oh yes... i thought i had it all figured out once... what the mind confessed to the plastic jesus balanced out what the body did with the plastic girlfriend. Like a quadratic equation... you can have all the arithmetic mess on one side, as long as there is an equals 1... and we all know we all know we all equal 1.... Oh yes… i thought i had it all figured out once… what the mind confessed to the plastic jesus balanced out what the body did with the plastic girlfriend. Like a quadratic equation… you can have all the arithmetic mess on one side, as long as there is an equals 1… and we all know we all know we all equal 1….

]]> By: Mark http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-565 Mark Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:16:22 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-565 Ha ha. Whatever floats your boat Richard. ;) Ha ha. Whatever floats your boat Richard. ;)

]]> By: Richard http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-564 Richard Sun, 19 Feb 2006 20:22:13 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-564 First, Cam says to give up my free will concept. Then, Mark says to give up my plastic woman. Where will it all end? First, Cam says to give up my free will concept. Then, Mark says to give up my plastic woman. Where will it all end?

]]> By: Bob Seal http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-563 Bob Seal Sun, 19 Feb 2006 16:11:48 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-563 Cameron, Introducing the Non-Duality Twins. (cartoon). http://advaitatoons.blogspot.com/ These guys are Two not One!! These little guys are always trying to be with the One. But they have the problem of being twins trying to understand non-duality. Not This, Not That. Neti Neti! stay tuned . . . Cameron,
Introducing the Non-Duality Twins. (cartoon).
http://advaitatoons.blogspot.com/

These guys are Two not One!!
These little guys are always trying to be with the One.
But they have the problem of being twins trying to understand non-duality.
Not This, Not That.
Neti Neti!

stay tuned . . .

]]> By: Luly http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-562 Luly Sun, 19 Feb 2006 12:22:23 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-562 Enrique, thanks for turning me on to Donny Hathaway. i'd forgotten all about him. how could i!? great music. anyways, es la verdad, "everythang is! everythang" 'cause what else is there?!? Cam, see? ... we're all "chopping wood" together, thru this imaginary ethernet world here. as one of my daughters likes to remind me occasionally; this monkey mind likes to chatter but "it don't mean a thing". she and her sis are 25 now, and at their age i wasn't even 1/2 as wise as they. she tells me that when she paints, the monkey shuts up. check out their websites @ http://www.angiebrown.org/ (paints in oils and sculpts) @ http://www.michellebrown.org/ (photographs and weaves) out of the mouths of babes! i'm going to send them you and Bob's way when they are 'down under'. (why do we call it that?? under what??! more concepts! ) ttfn! Luly Enrique,
thanks for turning me on to Donny Hathaway. i’d forgotten all about him. how could i!?
great music.
anyways, es la verdad, “everythang is! everythang” ’cause what else is there?!?

Cam,
see? … we’re all “chopping wood” together, thru this imaginary ethernet world here.
as one of my daughters likes to remind me occasionally; this monkey mind likes to chatter but “it don’t mean a thing”.
she and her sis are 25 now, and at their age i wasn’t even 1/2 as wise as they.
she tells me that when she paints, the monkey shuts up.
check out their websites
@ http://www.angiebrown.org/ (paints in oils and sculpts)
@ http://www.michellebrown.org/ (photographs and weaves)
out of the mouths of babes!
i’m going to send them you and Bob’s way when they are ‘down under’. (why do we call it that?? under what??! more concepts! )

ttfn!
Luly

]]> By: Cameron http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-561 Cameron Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:56:52 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-561 Mark, you ask: "If there’s nobody here consciously choosing one thing over another, then that means *we’re* all robots with no choice,...." WAIT?!!! WHO IS THE ROBOT? WE? But you just said there's nobody here! If there is nobody here, then there is nobody to *be* a robot. Nobody to go on trial. Nobody to get sentenced to life by the judge without a sense of humour. Nobody sitting in the small, cramped cell, eating cockroaches and trying not to bend down to pick up the soap in the shower block! :-) Our legal system today assumes people have free will. But 400 years ago, our legal system also assumed people were in the control of witches and the devil. See that there is no entity in the first place and everything else will fall into place dude. NOW - enough chattering, little monkey brain. Go chop wood. Mark, you ask:

“If there’s nobody here consciously choosing one thing over another, then that means *we’re* all robots with no choice,….”

WAIT?!!! WHO IS THE ROBOT? WE? But you just said there’s nobody here! If there is nobody here, then there is nobody to *be* a robot. Nobody to go on trial. Nobody to get sentenced to life by the judge without a sense of humour. Nobody sitting in the small, cramped cell, eating cockroaches and trying not to bend down to pick up the soap in the shower block! :-)

Our legal system today assumes people have free will.

But 400 years ago, our legal system also assumed people were in the control of witches and the devil.

See that there is no entity in the first place and everything else will fall into place dude.

NOW - enough chattering, little monkey brain. Go chop wood.

]]> By: Mark http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-560 Mark Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:01:27 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-560 ha ha. Luke, that is funny. That's my challenge with Advaita and the no free will thing. If there's nobody here consciously choosing one thing over another, then that means we're all robots with no choice, responsibility, or control over our actions whatsoever, and in light of your above example, we say "rubbish" to that idea. Cameron, your thoughts on the Luke's illustration? Clearly there's some force of will that opposes God's natural, healthy, loving way. Some call it ego, the devil, or the 'wave that forgets it's part of the ocean'. But clearly it's a force with power, no? Watts says it's the reason most men don't want to make love to a plastic woman is that in reality we don't want to control anyone. We want a real live woman with a will to freely choose us. Is God any different? If we don't have free will, what then is that force that allows us to choose God's way or "my" way? ha ha. Luke, that is funny. That’s my challenge with Advaita and the no free will thing. If there’s nobody here consciously choosing one thing over another, then that means we’re all robots with no choice, responsibility, or control over our actions whatsoever, and in light of your above example, we say “rubbish” to that idea. Cameron, your thoughts on the Luke’s illustration? Clearly there’s some force of will that opposes God’s natural, healthy, loving way. Some call it ego, the devil, or the ‘wave that forgets it’s part of the ocean’.

But clearly it’s a force with power, no?

Watts says it’s the reason most men don’t want to make love to a plastic woman is that in reality we don’t want to control anyone. We want a real live woman with a will to freely choose us. Is God any different? If we don’t have free will, what then is that force that allows us to choose God’s way or “my” way?

]]> By: Karl http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-559 Karl Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:55:25 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-559 Cameron !! Karl :)) Cameron !!

Karl :))

]]> By: Luke http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-558 Luke Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:04:47 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-558 And indeed who will try it? The intriguing case of I am v's I am. I remember reading in the paper some years ago of some guy claiming innocence in court to some crime 'he' committed claiming that since he did not have free will he could not be held responsible for the crime. The judge gave his arguments due consideration before sentencing his illusory self to spend some imaginary time behind make-believe bars. And indeed who will try it? The intriguing case of I am v’s I am.

I remember reading in the paper some years ago of some guy claiming innocence in court to some crime ‘he’ committed claiming that since he did not have free will he could not be held responsible for the crime. The judge gave his arguments due consideration before sentencing his illusory self to spend some imaginary time behind make-believe bars.

]]> By: Cameron http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-557 Cameron Fri, 17 Feb 2006 06:32:34 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-557 Rick I've also got spare batteries and a spare change of underwear. Luke, who are they going to put on trial? Steven the Witness - stop it or you'll blow my character's cover. Rick I’ve also got spare batteries and a spare change of underwear.

Luke, who are they going to put on trial?

Steven the Witness - stop it or you’ll blow my character’s cover.

]]> By: Rick http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-556 Rick Fri, 17 Feb 2006 06:09:50 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-556 Have enough coffee on Tuesday and dont forget to charge the laptop. this can be found in chapter one of 'advise to a spiritul friend' Have enough coffee on Tuesday and dont forget to charge the laptop.

this can be found in chapter one of ‘advise to a spiritul friend’

]]> By: Luke http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-555 Luke Fri, 17 Feb 2006 04:46:28 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-555 I'm not sure this will hold up in court. I’m not sure this will hold up in court.

]]> By: Steven Witt http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-554 Steven Witt Thu, 16 Feb 2006 22:53:02 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-554 Hands down, you are the smartest self-proclaimed slow guy I have ever met. You are, as Alan Watts proclaimed himself, "a spiritual entertainer." And a good bloke to top it all. Fester. some master, some guru -- blows off all of his needy "pupils-in-need-of-a-good pointing-or-two" to go have a date with his sweetheart. That's Life! Good on him, the old dog must be sensing something:) Hands down, you are the smartest self-proclaimed slow guy I have ever met.

You are, as Alan Watts proclaimed himself, “a spiritual entertainer.”

And a good bloke to top it all.

Fester. some master, some guru — blows off all of his needy “pupils-in-need-of-a-good pointing-or-two” to go have a date with his sweetheart. That’s Life! Good on him, the old dog must be sensing something:)

]]> By: Cameron http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-553 Cameron Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:02:17 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-553 first three comments all from women? I thought the chicks weren't into advaita? first three comments all from women? I thought the chicks weren’t into advaita?

]]> By: Luly http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-552 Luly Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:56:19 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-552 well .... fair deal. what waiting??? hardest part of ... what? Cam, 'you' sure can spin it. 'i' love it. but 'you' just about said it all ... 'i' guess. (imaginary you, imaginary i, i.e.=intelligence energy) ;-) Luly well …. fair deal.
what waiting???
hardest part of … what?
Cam, ‘you’ sure can spin it. ‘i’ love it.
but ‘you’ just about said it all … ‘i’ guess.
(imaginary you, imaginary i, i.e.=intelligence energy)
;-)
Luly

]]> By: Linda http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-551 Linda Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:46:32 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-551 I love it, you are so entertaining Cameron, thanks heaps for your efforts. Great comments from the group too. How about some more Advaitaman to fill the void until Tuesday. I love it, you are so entertaining Cameron, thanks heaps for your efforts. Great comments from the group too. How about some more Advaitaman to fill the void until Tuesday.

]]> By: Helen http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-550 Helen Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:22:28 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/02/17/the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#comment-550 Cameron - Fair enough! Helen in LA Cameron - Fair enough!

Helen in LA

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