--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 8, 2006, at 9:39 AM, Alex Stanley wrote: > > > IMO, the person who is focused on denying and pushing away the > > relative is every bit as caught up in it as the person whose life > > revolves around indulging in it. > > One of the interesting things in different paths is how they handle > things they see as "poison". > > --in the slower paths, things seen as poison are simply avoided. > Rules are made, you listen to them and avoid conflicts of body, of > energy and ultimately, mind. The downside is, it is believed this > approach will take thousands of lives to reach complete > enlightenment! Since all it involves is essentially rules and > meditation, it also doesn't require real heart-felt moral development > either. > > --in faster paths we realize everything has it's opposite, so we see > the "poison" as an energy which can be transformed via an opposite or > antidote. Downside: razors edge kinda path. Full enlightenment in a > couple lifetimes or so. > > --even faster is viewing "the poison" from a non-dual state, free of > opposites and polarities: whatever arises self liberates itself, by > itself.: everything is just the play of inseparable awareness. Pros: > Full enlightenment very fast Cons: non-dual awareness can easily be > confused for other states which are similar. > > .02 USD, > sorry no refunds :-) >
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