re: red vs green

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Thanks Mike for responding intelligently to a question I later realized looked like a goofy game. It was a decision (between red and green) required of me in a dream, and I suspected it was alchemical symbolism I wasn't familiar with. Nothing I've read makes green seem better or worse than red, so it just didn't make any sense. The dream occurred in January and only lately have I begun to search for the answer. So wouldn't you know that after asking you I finally realized what should have been obvious: red is stop and green is go. But you proved yourself a sport by answering my riddle.

 

Hi JimI'd choose green... why?because it's the median colour between violet and red which explains why 'nature' is so peaceful to the soul.of course - like all other colours but also maybe also especially - what we call " green " goes from almost pure white to very nearly totally black, but it would definitely be what i would choose over red

All besm-- 'Self-arisen' and 'self-liberated' mean that when a thought arises, it’s

like a wave coming up from the ocean of luminous clarity. It also dissolves back into that luminous clarity, never leaving the nature of luminous clarity, just like a wave is never something other than the ocean.Basically, what this means is that whatever appears is always luminosity. Your thoughts don’t come from anywhere, for example, and nor

do they go anywhere, yet, at the same time, they appear—they manifest. So that appearance, that arising, is called 'self-arising' and

'self-liberation' since it’s nothing but the luminosity itself that is liberated.~Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso RinpocheHuman freedom involves our capacity to pause between stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness.~Rollo May, The Courage to Create.Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.