It's interesting how Bright Light Types sometimes suffer despair before awakening. Buckminster Fuller and Ekhart Tolle contemplated suicide, Byron Katie raged, Maharishi was despondent. And their responses were to serve others.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "matrixmonitor" > <matrixmonitor@> wrote: > > > > ---Yes, Tolle, Ramana, and Papaji are examples of individuals who > > awakened more or less spontaneously without the need of prior > > practices. In a statistical curve, such persons are in the > > 99.99999....% percentile. The rest of us laggards need > > good "techniques" like TM. > > > Ha-Ha! Yes, the Universe in the form of daily activity, or Maharishi > or Buddhas or Jesus or Ramana or Shiva or Vishnu or Ganesh or > Krishna or Barahmananda Saraswati or [fill in the blank] is always > ready to deliver a retort to those who say they have found "The One > Way" to Awakening! > > Interesting karma of those who awaken spontaneously. I imagine the > conversation for them prior to this final incarnation in which they > awaken spontaneously goes something like this: "OK, you're almost > free. Just go down there one more time, and hang out for awhile. > That's it, and liberation will be yours- no technique > necessary..." "Really? Do I have to? OK, if you say so..." and off > to earth they go. >