--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > I beg your pardon? When did I ever suggest I was > > > > > enlightened? > > > > > > > > **** > > > > Then why so adamant about your "position" on the topic? > > > > > > The topic of how difficult it is to discuss > > > enlightenment in relative terms, you mean? > > > > > > One doesn't have to be enlightened to have a > > > sense of where the intellect leaves off and > > > what it can't do. > > > > *** > > No. The topic of what enlightenment is. It's attributes. For > example > > (only), whether or not the enlightened brahmin sees differences > > between a brahmin, a cow, etc. > > Jeez. That was me *quoting Maharishi*. > > I don't have to be enlightened to quote MMY, > do I?
*** Not at all. Not really meaning to get on your case. You did a good job of quoting MMY. And not to pick on you in particular. I just get a sense sometimes when reading threads such as this one that some people are living too much in their conceptual worlds about what enlightenment is supposed to be about based on formulaic expressions coming from a variety of sources, be they MMY or Buddhist teachings or what not. Having done that for many years, I am very familiar with it. MMY's teachings were always home base. And I presumed them to be impeccable and the final word. Even though the topic was supposedly ineffable, it never occurred to me that memorizing a huge conceptual structure and ever learning more "fine points of knowledge" had very little to do with the actual business of "progressing on a path" or of recognizing one's own experiences for what they actually are. Sometimes, I would venture out of the MMY home base and study some other teachings as an inspirational conceptual exercise. It was natural to try to understand other systems of knowledge "in the light of SCI" as MMY taught us to do. Eventually, I learned to understand other conceptual frameworks in their own light, and began to feel that MMY's words may not always be impeccable and the final word. And some time later, I became much more interested in my own growing experience of what's really going on here (meaning, in the realm of consciousness) than in what MMY might have said about it once. And along with that, I am thrilled and inspired to hear about the growing experiences of others, in their own, authentic words, not in the words of some conceptual structure originating outside of their own experiences. So I just want to encourage that kind of interchange. ------------------------ 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/
