http://mamadharma.net/2008/10/unconditionality-2/ one single mother. one spririted preschooler. oy -- what a life. Fri, 18 May 2012 12:24:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://mamadharma.net/2008/10/unconditionality-2/#comment-271 Anonymous Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:03:45 +0000 http://mamadharma.net/?p=258#comment-271 Thank you as always, Karen, for your thoughtful comments and encouraging me to go deeper. I agree too, that we are the ones who set up the conditions and then complain about them. We do all own the keys to our own prisons if we'd like to be free. Yes! I don't want to blame people or "culture" or whatever, for whatever. So I practice, hopefully to learn how to take responsibility for my life and my actions. Thank you as always, Karen, for your thoughtful comments and encouraging me to go deeper. I agree too, that we are the ones who set up the conditions and then complain about them. We do all own the keys to our own prisons if we’d like to be free. Yes! I don’t want to blame people or “culture” or whatever, for whatever. So I practice, hopefully to learn how to take responsibility for my life and my actions.

]]> http://mamadharma.net/2008/10/unconditionality-2/#comment-270 Karen Maezen Miller Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:39:43 +0000 http://mamadharma.net/?p=258#comment-270 Love has no meaning. All meaning is manufactured in our thinking mind. Love merely exists, which is why children love so effortlessly. And I don't buy for a minute that conditions are foisted on me by an external culture. All so-called cultural conditions are simply the ones I accept. If I don't take them as my own, they do not exist.The only lies that are told are told by me, to me. I'm robbed of the satisfaction of blaming someone else; I'm endowed with the supreme power of my every act. A reminder to myself to practice. Love has no meaning. All meaning is manufactured in our thinking mind. Love merely exists, which is why children love so effortlessly. And I don’t buy for a minute that conditions are foisted on me by an external culture. All so-called cultural conditions are simply the ones I accept. If I don’t take them as my own, they do not exist.The only lies that are told are told by me, to me. I’m robbed of the satisfaction of blaming someone else; I’m endowed with the supreme power of my every act. A reminder to myself to practice.

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