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So I've been posting in a few USENET newsgroups. Got some pleasant interaction sooner than I expected.
So far I've stuck to simply throwing posts over the wall, i.e. not keeping copies thereof. I should probably do that in Gemini spaces as well. The mania of archiving writing has proven unnecessary/useless the vast majority of the last several decades.
Never mind that becoming that way in general per "giving up attachment(s)" is long overdue. I'm seeing significant purging of crap I've been holding onto and/or carting around this spring (much is in storage, hence the delay).
And ohmygosh it's finally feeling as though we're at least in the neighborhood of being settled again. We're not. But I can see the white of settled's eyes!
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| Everything else is an illusion: |
| the little self, the world, the |
| universe. All these things arise |
| with the thought 'I', that is, with |
| the idea of separate identity. The |
| little 'I' invents the material world, |
| which in our ignorance we strive hard |
| to sustain. Forgetting our original |
| oneness, bound tightly in our imaginary |
| separateness, we spend our lives |
| mastered by a specious sense of purpose |
| and value. Endlessly constrained |
| by our habit of individuation, the |
| creature of preference and desire, |
| we continually set one thing against |
| another, until the mischief and misery |
| of choice consume us. |
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Dec 18 · 10 days ago · 👍 Minko_Ikana, zetamacs