--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@>
> wrote:
> >> Hi Rory, good to hear from you. Your perspective is always a
> > refreshing and profound one. I find it delightfully paradoxical
that
> > we as humans, as the perfect agents of the Divine, serve Him and
Her
> > best by finding ourselves first ignorant and then taking the
journey
> > to enlightenment, over and over again, as if God Himself and
Herself
> > wants to experience that joy and agony of discovery and
rediscovery
> > infinitely.
> >
> Yes, precisely, Jim; many thanks! That's what I was trying to get
at
> with the stitching image -- constantly crossing and recrossing the
gap
> of ignorance, constantly encountering the not-self and re-
membering it
> as self, suturing sutras of self-recognition. We manifest because
we
> love to tell ourselves stories, and we love stories so much we are
> tempted to believe in them, and that's where the suffering seems
to
> creep in...when we forget it's "only a movie" and start to take
our
> subtitles as gospel :-)
>
"and start to take our subtitles as gospel". Very Good! And the best
joke I have heard all day! (the silent ones don't count ;-))
