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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "claudiouk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "'So both diversification and unification ... when the two come to > awareness then the hiding, the cover, also comes to awareness. So the > cover is uncovered." This is the mechanics of how we get suffering > and the elimination of suffering. But suffering still dominates in > the Relative, like a flowing river; the elimination of suffering is > by contrast a drop by drop process, so on balance venturing into the > Relative is utter stupidity. There is something rather perverse in > the idea that you have unity, diversity and the COVERING in the first > place. Why not unity, diversity and total CLARITY instead? That way > unity is never lost whatever the experience in the relative, bliss > overriding any possibility of suffering, and thus all would be well. > The cover that needs uncovering is the ROOT of suffering and it has > nothing to do with our own karma after all!! It is a flaw in Unity.. > right? > > You say ignorance is part of totality - but totality INCLUDES non- > ignorance which you would expect to OVERWHELM ignorance. Whereas the > experience of Nature - apart from a few fortunate individuals here > and there - is that non-ignorance has the upper hand. If the > INTENTION is to expand happiness via the Relative these mechanics > simply insure that the outcome inevitably is a FAILURE!! One has to > question, therefore, the intelligence or sanity at the root of > creation.. > **snip to end** But that's the glory of Maya; somehow the boundless, timeless, nothing-else-but-that, " forgets". Somehow it appears as if we have forgotten who we are (even though we never do and never have). Ignorance is only apparent, it isn't real; it just seems real at the time. But you are outside of time; you just "think" that you've forgotten.
