--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <snip great rap> > > So, the same with akashanon. The more he challenges what we who > have Awakened express, the stronger it gets. I don't know whether > it helps him or not, though...
I suspect it has the opposite effect, but I agree with you. When I watch one of the "clingers to self" acting out their "I'm in ignorance and proud of it but I'm willing to tell you all about enlightenment anyway" thang here on FFL, I have several simultaneous reactions. The first is that I am *immensely* grateful that, unlike them, I have had my own experiences of enlightenment and don't have to try to fake knowledge of enlightenment based on the intellectual bullshit we've all been told *about* it over the years. Second, I often find myself laughing, often out loud, because the intellectual posturing and trying to sound knowledgeable about something they've never experienced really *IS* laughable. (Sorry, but it is...if you guys are going to continue to do this shit, *somebody* should tell you the truth.) Third, *even as I'm laughing*, I tend to feel sorry for the person doing the intellectual posturing about enlightenment, remembering that if I hadn't been lucky enough to have a few experiences of awakening myself that I'd probably be posturing the same way and spouting the same intellectual bullshit. And fourth, I try to remind myself *never* to try to explain the subjective experience of enlightenment to anyone who hasn't already experienced it, because then I'd be just as laughable. All in all, it's a real multidimensinoal learning experience... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/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/
