tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis wrote:
> Jim Flanegin writes snipped:
> Are you kidding me?? That it is OK to die of cancer when on the cusp
> of enlightenment? Finish the job, for God's sake, and begin enjoying
> life as a realized being NOW. Do the job in front of you.
>
> TomT:
> No way to know he was not finished and just living out the rest of his
> time. Nisargadata and Ramana Maharishi both went out with cancer. Who
> is to know either way and who cares, as Ramana would say. Who is it
> that wants to know? Tom
I think that is one problem when one becomes enlightened, they start
neglecting the body because they experience no attachment to it. I bet
quite a few here who have been meditating for years and have some degree
of enlightenment keep trying to remind themselves to look into some
medical problem even if it is just a toothache because they only
"witness" it and it is not as overwhelming as it would have been before
they were meditating.