--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The cool thing about akashanon's constant parrying and challenging > is that it strengthens the Awakening experience of those who are > challenged. > > Its like this dude I encountered in the post office the other day, > where I'm plunking endless amounts of change into the one > functioning stamp machine, and the machine is rejecting about every > third coin, and given that, along with the price of a book of twenty > stamps these days, it is taking a long time to buy my stamps. > > So I'm putting in coins, and putting in coins, and then I hear from > behind me, an annoyed and persistent voice, "Buy the stamps! C'mon > buy the stamps!". I ignore it, not really catching the connection, > and keep plunking my change in, and several seconds later, "Buy the > stamps! Buy the stamps!". At this point I turn around, and see that > it is this guy in line, addressing me. So I stop what I am doing and > begin calmly explaining what I am doing, and why it is taking so > long. > > This doesn't satisfy him, and he interrupts with, "Well, then just > push the button! Buy some stamps with what you have!". So I explain > that the machine only offers 20 stamp books and I haven't put enough > stamps in. He isn't satisfied by my explanation, because he has > apparently made up his mind that I am wrong, and dammit, I'm not > conforming to that view of his. Anyway, he got frustrated and left, > and I got my stamps. > > Afterwards, I realized how much such an experience had validated and > reinforced the silence which now permeates my Being, is an > everpresent constituent of me, and how such experiences stretch and > test our true Nature. > > 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...
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