--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > > > > > Great youtube videos. He, he, we are all "aspirants" and he > is the > > > > "enlightened teacher". Step right up, step right up... > > > > > > > yeah, I'll bet it really pissed you off in grade school when > > > the "teacher" referred to you as a "student"... > > > > Not at all. The relationship was appropriately named. > > > > > > > > If you just read the words "enlightened teacher" and "aspirant" > as > > > words with definitions, vs. loading them with baggage, it is > easier to > > > see what he is talking about. Dr. Phil, who's common sense I > enjoy, > > > refers to this loading as psychological sunburn; because of > events in > > > the past, even a mention of a word or phrase evokes strong > emotion. > > > I'm not dissing you, just noticing your reaction to those words. > DS > > > doesn't strike me as a power tripper in the least.:-) > > > > So not recognizing people's self proclaimed superior enlightened > > status is a psychological problem that I have that Dr. Phil can > help > > me with? That is super news for me! > > > Why is the self proclaimed status any different whether its someone > calling themselves doctor because they did a thesis or med school, > and graduated, or calling themselves enlightened because they did > self realization school, and graduated? Either way there has been an > achievement, but so what? Life is full of achievements. Why are > either of them, the doc or the enlightened, or both of them, > considered "superior" as a result? And why not just recognize them > for what they have accomplished? I don't get the issue with that.:-) >
David: "Thanks for deconstructing the notion that within teaching enlightenment there is an inherent, unspoken position of authority or superiority. That was right on! Namaste, DS" Me: I'll let David explain it to you since he is obviously much more enlighteneder than you are (with the website and all). If you pay attention you may reach your next stage of enlightenmentedness through recognizing your relationship with his higher degree of enlightendenessinment. (That is unless your own psychological sunburn doesn't allow you to submit to your true relationship with him as living a state of less enlightnedernessinment than he has, you know like an MD, so what's the problem?) Meanwhile common dudes like me will just have to settle for our own level of nonenlightenmentesque lives. Or is it unenlightenmenedness? Either way you guys can work this one out amongst yourselves and I wont worry my pretty little head about such lofty matters.
