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My cousin and his wife are having their 14 y.o. dog put down today. They have no children so that dog was like a daughter to them. They have someone coming in to take care of the medical end of it. They wanted to be with her in familiar surroundings at the end. -Just a share.

Metacognition and contemplation go hand in hand. Deep contemplation Is metacognition. It is where all higher Truth reside. -on the way to enlightenment.

@Natasha Tori Maru It was just a share. I originally heard that story from your amigo Alan Watts.

The Fifth Patriarch held a poetry contest to determine his successor. One monk wrote about polishing a mirror to remove dust (the ego). While Huineng, an illiterate novice, responded that there's no mirror to begin with.

I so wish I was here......

If you become really conscious, you will see that cleaning is just happening, no one is doing the cleaning.

It has nothing to do with the table itself but more with the person who takes their anger out on an inanimate object such as a table. If you consider the universe vibrating at a certain frequency and anger for instance at a different frequency, then the universe answers back to that source and self corrects. Karma is not payback; it's an auto correction reflected back to the source of the disturbance.

That's an excellent example of the mind of a sociopathic rapist.

If karma is real, then it's not just a matter whether a table suffers when broken but how it was broken. Was the table broken in anger? Just as a side note, when I think of karma I think in terms of vibration/ frequency. Harmonic balance.

Let's give that more thought.

That sounds about right. Thanks!

@Leo Gura I remember a story of an enlightened guru that was well known. Don't remember the exact name. But anyhow, people would come from all over to hear him speak. And every day he demanded his wife have something ready for him to eat at noon. So, one day his wife says to him: "People come from all around to hear you speak of the importance letting go of the material things in life. But yet you insist on having a meal every day at noon. Why is that?" He replied: "That one material indulgence is the only thing that keeps me here."

But what if they were already in that bliss state 24/7?

If they are truly enlightened my guess would be as a tether to the physical. Without it they would simply vanish.

@Magnanimous Good topic! Good info.