08-02-2011, 02:46 PM
(08-02-2011, 01:31 PM)Pickle Wrote: Sounds like a description of a virtual stop sign
Hmm, what you are describing sounds more like the middle path.
Might I suggest that for our ego, yes; it IS a virtual STOP sign. Ego cannot bear the thought of 'not doing'. Ego thinks that the only way to 'be' anything is to 'do' something. The need to 'be' something implies dissatisfaction with what already is, yes? And only ego - the need to be unhappy with what is - makes us feel that something must be done in order to be 'ok'.
Middle path? What path? If we are in this state of being and other states of being, what path can there be? Where would we be 'going', exactly..? Let me suggest that when any 'path' is examined it turns out to be nothing more than imagination.