--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Rory, I'll bet you a buck you can't express what
> > > you want to say here without resorting to the use
> > > of terms implying intentionality, conscious choice
> > > ("deciding," "making," "denying," "believing").
> >
> > Quite right; enlightenment consists (in part) in taking
> > responsibility
>
> And then one can claim authorship of one's
> enlightenment. *I* did it!
*lol* if not *I* then who?
> <snip>
> > I do wonder why you associate the idea of intentionality and
> > responsibility with disrespect and hostility
>
> No, I was mistaken. I just now had a rush of brains
> to the head and realized it's not hostility, it's a
> need to defend one's sense that one should be able to
> take personal credit for one's enlightenment.
There is at the heart of things only *I*; only the Self -- so who is
to assign or receive credit or blame?
:-)
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