---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fleetwood_macncheese@...> wrote :
Sal, you and Barry are giving me power, that I do not have... ...So live with it, and get the fuck off my back - it is like having fleas. Having a human mind, it might be possible to prevent having fleas, or to rid yourself of them at some point. I am not disagreeing or agreeing with what you said in the complete post, but the way you came out with 'I am enlightened' perhaps has something to do with the response. People gravitate around both good and not good teachers, but to my mind, good teachers do not have to do much to establish their status which grows spontaneously from what they present. Also, FFL contains a fair proportion of disgruntled spiritual seekers and former spiritual seekers, so perhaps, in making such an announcement to such a crowd, are you throwing your alleged pearls before swine and just stirring up the pen? I say alleged because enlightenment does not show, and an unenlightened person would not know how to evaluate its presence (assuming enlightenment has a presence). Simply proclaiming enlightenment is not sufficient, and demeaning others continually for not being so does not bode well for establishing such a fact were it to exist. Now others may demean you, but to turn it back on them, that makes you just like them in others' eyes. Might as well be a hell-fire preacher with zero knowledge of spiritual reality.
