> > > On Jan 1, 2012, at 1:09 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: > > > OK Robin,I tried. I took about two hours and re-read the whole thing and worked my way through the first 3 posts again with comments. You would not like any of them. I became increasingly frustrated that we do not share the same values in how we judge people and how we define friendship. It only inspired the kind of defensive soul deadening writing that I despise. (Plus I had to create a soul for it to die so it was no small thing.) You said some niece things at the end to regain rapport, but it was just too little too late for me to embrace the spirit of your words. I do appreciate them but feel too weary from all that went before to have it make much difference. On their own, outside the dissection of my faults, they might have turned the tide, I don't know.
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@...> wrote: > > What is Enlightenment? > > Sutra eighty-eight > > It is knowing that one's boldness and Promethean > prophecies are inspired from the Ego of God. > > > -Robin W. Carlsen > > > > /in-flated/ 1. puffed out; > swollen, pompous; 2. bombas- > tic; high-flown; 3. increased or > raised beyond what is normal > or valid. > > > > The Masks of Inflation > > Inflation wears many different masks: a sense of superiority, vanity, > self-satisfaction, a feeling of being special, an overestimation of one's > spiritual development and capacities, pride in ones spiritual accomplish- > ments and stature, aloofness, the feeling that no one is able to > understand one's experience. Each of these is a mask of ego inflation, > worn in delusion, with each wearer believing that his or her mask > represents the true face. > > -Mariana Caplan > Saffy, I don't think Robin has any sense of superiority and neither he is aloof. He is just vain. Vainity taken to the very extreme. His stupid declaration the the west is more real than the east is puzzling. What makes him conclude the west is any more real than the east? > > The soul that is attached to > anything, however much good > there may be in it, will not > arrive at the liberty of the > divine. > > -St. John of the Cross >
