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To: Ilaine who wrote (142216)	8/1/2004 2:20:04 AM
From: spiral3	Respond to of 281500

I think once you get really serious, you realize you don't understand anything, probably never will, and just try to sit back and enjoy it while it lasts. So non-attachment isn't my first impulse in life. There is a great deal to know and understand, but I think there is some stuff we can pretty safely tuck into our belts at this point. It's not about that there are known knowns and unkown knowns or unknown unknowns or known unknowns or whatever it was that Rummy was talking about, he seemed confused to me, it's about transforming one into the other, and it can be done, and is, in both directions, on a daily basis, no matter how much there is still left to find out. The method used is important in that things are either coherent or they aren't, so to speak, and it is in this way that the means determine the ends, this is natural law. As for sitting back and enjoying it while it lasts, sounds pretty non-attached to me. Robert Thurman wrote a book on the Tibetan Book of the Dead, which he will tell you is a terribly inaccurate name that happened unfortunately, to become the common title in the West, but is actually much better translated as The Great Book of Natural Liberation through Understanding in the Between. That would be the Between between death and birth. I take it you never saw the movie, and I can tell that yes, you do like to read weird stuff, no argument from me on that.