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Accepting being

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1 hour ago, ivankiss said:

You cannot accept something that already is.

In that sense; acceptance is an illusion.

There is no such thing in actuality.

Everything is always and already totally 'accepted'. If it wasn't; it would not be (happening). 

Agreed. 

 "When you get very serious about truth you accept your life situation exactly as it is. So much so that you aren't childishly sitting around wishing it were otherwise.If you were confined to a wheelchair you would just accept it as how reality is. Just as you now just accept that you are not a bird who can fly."

-Leo Gura. 

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@ivankiss thanks :) underlying all this sense of doing / not doing stuff, and even 'being on a spiritual path' is a belief in having free will too. If that's illusory, then any attempt at doing something like differentiating, accepting, resisting, is also illusory. But I don't want to derail this thread into yet another discussion on free will :(

Relax, it's just my loosely held opinion.  :) 

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5 hours ago, Someone here said:

Breathing can be voluntary or involuntary. 

Voluntary actions occur involuntarily.

"I could be the walrus. I'd still have to bum rides off people."

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