--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > I like the fact that their approach doesn't deal with excuses. > So many other techniques and traditions have an *excuse* > for why more students don't realize enlightenment (they're > full of stress, they're not serious enough about their study, > the world is too gnarly, whatever).
Again, this just pushes it all back a level; there's no real difference, practically speaking, in the two approaches. In one case, you're not enlightened; in the other, you don't realize you're already enlightened. Either way, you haven't realized enlightenment. > There are times when > it seems to me that the more excuses a tradition has for > NOT realizing enlightenment There can be just as many excuses for not realizing you're already enlightened. 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/