--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (worth repeating, with minor course corrections) > > > "do.rflex" <do.rflex@> wrote: In my view, in spite of the claims you > make about yourselves, you and Jim certainly do not. You both come > off as flippant smart asses, particularly it seems when you're > criticized. > > Jim: The only time you criticize me is when I cannot resolve a > paradox for you. For example MMY continues Guru Dev's consciousness, > but not in an intellectually comprehensible way. Then you grow so > incredibly frustrated and rigid that there is nothing I or anyone one > else can do about it. So then you get angry and accuse me of all > sorts of things, when it is Reality itself that "deserves" your > criticism. I suspect the dynamic with Rory is the same. > > R: Yes, and I have no issue with "pursuing a role model" if one > allows oneself actually *catch* the role model: to do it > wholeheartedly and with total surrender HERE and NOW, as you have > done/are doing, Jim. > > It is the use of one's "pursuit of virtues" to studiously avoid the > void while persuading oneself one is actually getting nearer > to "enlightenment" that strikes *me* as unspeakably paradoxical!
pretty funny too! Sort of like twisting oneself in knots to untie the rope...worthless, in this life. > Here's a fun quote I ran across after posting yesterday: > > "There seem to be two kinds of searchers; those who seek to make > their ego something other than it is, i.e., holy, happy, unselfish > (as though you could make a fish unfish), and those who understand > that all such attempts are just gesticulation and play-acting, that > there is only one thing that can be done, which is to disidentify > themselves with the ego, by realizing its unreality, and by becoming > aware of their eternal identity with pure being." -- We Wu Wei > > > (Spiritual Warfare, by Jed McKenna, p. 190) > > *L*L*L* >
