--- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snip> > > > What's interesting (to me, anyway) is that the > > > mind is perfectly capable of recognizing the > > > logic that puts Brahman beyond its capacity > > > to recognize, but cannot, of its own accord, > > > take it the next step and shut the hell up. > > > > > > Or mine can't, anyway... > > > > Isn't that amazing? Curse of the mind. It says, > yeah, > > yeah, I know, but.......yada, yada, yada. A petty > > tyrant. It can bring you to the door, but it can't > > enter.This is why sustained experiences of Brahman > (as > > Atman) "blow" the mind. The mind looses the > > stranglehood it used to have and can't function in > the > > same way. > > On the old TM list, Jonothan Levy used to talk > about how the mind works in ever-widening circles > to maintain its dominance. It figures out that it > is incapable of comprehending Brahman, but then it > struts around proclaiming how smart it is to have > made that discovery. Next it realizes that as long > as it keeps strutting, Brahman remains out of reach. > And then it proclaims itself a genius for having > made *that* discovery. And so on...it's turtles > all the way down. Gangaji talks alot about this. She says that in some Zen schools it is called "the stink of enlightenment". > > > > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!' > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
