On Jul 9, 2008, at 12:58 PM, authfriend wrote:
Actually, I was thinking of how one would rule them out on an objective basis. And of course your idea of how to rule them out wouldn't deal with the first alternative possibility at all.
Actually it would. The most common way is by the signs of progress. It's also an easy way to grok where others are in their stage of meditation or contemplation.
Esp. once one's experienced them, one understands from the inside out, so it's kinda easy to get where others are, where they might be stuck, etc.
