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To: Thomas M. who wrote (497)	8/30/2002 1:23:15 PM
From: James Calladine	Respond to of 1296

TWO MORE PARAS ON THE SAME GENERAL SUBJECT ADI DA: "From the point of view of life as a dilemma, a solution may be sought by manipulating action, the physical body (or its chemistry), desire, emotion, energy, attention, or thought. Such are the methods of traditional spirituality and conventionally oriented human life. But the solution is nothing more than a cure for the dilemma. Thus, the configuration or content of the solution is not what is significant, but the curing of the dilemma is. Therefore, the most direct approach is to obviate the dilemma in the present rather than make it the principle of the future and of the vision of existence. If dilemma ceases to be the point of view in the present, then existence ceases to be a matter of strategic manipulation of personal conditions of existence toward some ultimate solution that will make Truth or Happiness obvious. Rather, it is a matter of present Happiness in Truth, always already in the vision of Eternal Life. Thus, existence becomes a matter of creative participation in the presently arising pattern of relations through love, or sacrifice. Since all that arises passes and consciousness does not know what even a single thing is, the Law is sacrifice rather than resistance to change and mystery. Therefore, the Way of Life in Truth is Love and release of all contraction of the whole body-being rather than strategic manipulation, inversion, and self-meditation." FROM: The Way That I Teach Namaste! Jim