Yep, but other than premonitions, I find every experience to be other than how I conceptualize it.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <r...@...> wrote: > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] > On Behalf Of emptybill > Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 11:44 AM > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Suzanne Segal > > > > > > Yes very much like Suzanne Seagal. It's there in Maharshi's discourse, but > it is more overt in Buddhist literature. > > I found her story very interesting but also quite funny. Apparently some > people didn't listen when he was describing the transition from TC into CC > in terms of subjective experience. "Oh, I will be expanded into unbounded > consciousness" must have been her thought, and shows she definitely did not > listen and had no clue. The futility of looking for an I to keep for a > reference was highlighted by MMY a number of times. > > She also had a very intense attachment to her Jewish identity, something I > found hilarious. The continual need to search out such an "identify" to make > sure it was still findable caused her lots of suffering, all of it self > induced. > > From Reb Yonnasan Gershom's book, Beyond the Ashes, I learned just how > crystallized a Jewish identity could be . circulating across many life times > just to keep itself intact. > > > Bullshit karma but at last she gave it up, realized the illusion and worked > to help other people. > > Until she died of a brain tumor. I think part of her problem was that she > had been away from any spiritual teaching for several years before her > awakening, so maybe her understanding had gotten rusty. Also, as many say, > the actual experience turns out to be quite different from what we had > conceptualized it to be. >
