--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > <snip> > > > > I also find that the more often/longer Awareness > > > > is "present," the more of a pain it is when it > > > > "goes away." > > > > > > Still laughing uncontrollably. It's all about > > > what "you" "want" rather than what is. > > > > That's the way it is when Awareness is not > > "present." > > > > If you > > > only learned to appreciate what already is, > > > you'd have what you want. > > > > That's the way it is when Awareness *is* "present." > > Then I have the ability to appreciate what is. > > > > And that's why it's a pain when Awareness "goes > > away" and I no longer have that ability. > > To expand a bit: You said in another post that it > feels "false" to you to "want" a higher state of > attention.
Not so much "false" as completely unproductive. To do so takes one out of Now and into the realm of an imagined future that would be "better" if certain conditions were met. It's the issue of those "I'd rather be ..." bumper stickers I mentioned recently. The state of mind of "I'd rather be ..." is by definition not appreciating the Now, and setting up a set of circumstances that would "warrant" appreciation. In my experience, those who talk a lot about how things would be better in some imagined future if only suchandsuch would happen wind up never finding that future, and creating a series of Nows that are never perceived as fulfilling, because they're always waiting for suchandsuch. This is *particularly* true for those for whom suchandsuch = enlightenment, because they cannot possibly imagine what enlightenment is. If they could, they would be appreciating its presence right here, right Now, because it's already present, right here, right Now. Therefore they're not only putting off appreciation of Now until suchandsuch happens, but they are *imagining* what suchandsuch IS. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
