--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Irmeli Mattsson" <snip> > People can get enlightened without these inner structures. Then they > tend to think they are fully perfect as they are and also superior > beings. They desperately need their enlightenment to be seen, and > themselves to be seen as superior, because that is their personality > structure. The personal self, that cannot work with one's issues needs > all the time adulation and a feeling of power to feel good about > oneself. Problems are seen in the world. These people can create a lot > of unnecessary havoc, but also help some in getting enlightened. > > I personally think nowadays that it is probably better that people > develop the inner structures mentioned above before the experience of > enlightenment.
Very good points. I have also been fortunate to work with some wonderfully enlightened people who have actually been essentially or completely unware of their own enlightenment, by virtue of that slight misunderstanding of the nature of (the remains of) ignorance: i.e., petty suffering we resist or ignore doesn't really go away; it just remains in ignorance, becoming heavier and darker the more we ignore it. Paradoxically the more we ignore it, the more it binds our attention until we find ourselves immersed in and fully identified with suffering. Separating ourselves from the suffering just enough to gain an unshakable foothold (often easiest to do by locating it in the body, and/or remembering who we "really are"), and then approaching it with an embrace of unconditional love, allowing it to feel, breathe, etc., lightens it quickly up into its true nature of radiant bliss. To my eye anyhow, these people are the most amazingly blazing Suns of Brahman who were more or less completely overlooking their own light and love and powerful attention fields by empowering ignorance and the darkness of suffering and not-love, all merely unrecognized and unloved portions of themSelves! :-) ------------------------ 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/
