--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "anonyff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm sorry, with all due respect I'm going to take great exception to > this answer and to all answers that seem to reduce the > life/mindset/emotional state of the "awake ones" to these kinds of pat > answers. > <snip>
That's kind of like taking exception to the fact that out of six billion humans on this planet, if they were asked to generally describe themselves, most would include in their description that they had two arms and two legs... Also, keep in mind that Tom is just talking about the *inner* state of the awakened person. As we have read, heard, quoted and thought about, at least a zillion times, from the Gita, it says the state of consciousness of a person can't be determined by their outside actions. Yep, still true. Also, from waking state, or non-awakened state, there is no way to intellectually `get' this sense of true equanimity that Tom describes. It can only be understood as mood-making from waking state. The mind is not permanently satisfied if we are not Awake. Therefore the only way it understands equanimity is to assume a false state of evenness, because it isn't settled. The mind in Unawake state is still at odds with itself. So Tom isn't talking about external actions or fake evenness, he's just stating the obvious about being Awake. Nothing more than ever changing perfect coordination between the person and their ever changing environment. > Personally, I think there are as many forms of enlightenment as there > are people, I think that people still get angry, hungrly, lonely, > tired, irritable, sick, and that they act just as spontaneously as > anyone/everyone else Yep, diversity continues, with no attempt at stopping it, categorizing it, slowing it down or thinking about it too much. and that all this constant intellectualizing is a > form of severe mental masturbation. > > What ever happened to meditate and act? I give up, what? > > Anonyff > > > > > > > > The full appreceation of the thought > > includes the fulfilment of the completion. In other words full > > knowledge of the act in the relative and the full appreciation of the > > outcome. Kind of neat actually. Desires are now seen as appreciation. > > No conflict, no unfulfilled desires, no problem. See the thought, do > > what is obvious, move on to the next obvious thing to do. TOm T > > > ------------------------ 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/
