[FairfieldLife] Re: What will change about you when you realize enlightenment?

2009-02-10 Thread yifuxero
---good question! Actually, none of the physiological studies address the question of what happens to the brain before, during, and after "unstressing" since the spikes or flat-lines one sees on an oscilloscope have little connectivity to what's "actually" occurring. But it's a safe assumption

[FairfieldLife] Re: What will change about you when you realize enlightenment?

2009-02-10 Thread grate . swan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "yifuxero" wrote: > > since the thinking part of > the brain dissolves into pure Consciousness. That sounds rather slimy. Do the brains sort of drip out onto the floor -- or is it a sudden gush? Have anatomical studies been done on these people -- do they l

[FairfieldLife] Re: What will change about you when you realize enlightenment?

2009-02-10 Thread yifuxero
--I would definitely agree with Auth's statement below that wood gets chopped; but disagree with the Gita on the "doer"; (thereby adding a corollary). "Doers": people, bugs, rodents, Scientologists, whatever/whomever, don't vanish as doers. The doing is simply subsumed within the global ocean

[FairfieldLife] Re: What will change about you when you realize enlightenment?

2009-02-10 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > I post this as an "open question" to FFL readers. > > I think it's an interesting question. If you believe > in enlightenment, and that it is within your grasp > in this lifetime, what about yourself do you believe > will *change* when y

[FairfieldLife] Re: What will change about you when you realize enlightenment?

2009-02-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > I post this as an "open question" to FFL readers. > > I think it's an interesting question. If you believe > in enlightenment, and that it is within your grasp > in this lifetime, what about yourself do you believe > will *change* when y

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What will change about you when you realize enlightenment?

2009-02-10 Thread Peter
--- On Tue, 2/10/09, yifuxero wrote: > From: yifuxero > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: What will change about you when you realize > enlightenment? > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 5:46 PM > ---the ego doesn't vanish. It depend

[FairfieldLife] Re: What will change about you when you realize enlightenment?

2009-02-10 Thread yifuxero
---the ego doesn't vanish. It's only realized (along with everything else) ... as inseparable from nondual Reality. The mental notion of an internal "I" as an identity vanishes, since the thinking part of the brain dissolves into pure Consciousness. But body/mind remains although immersed in Se

[FairfieldLife] Re: What will change about you when you realize enlightenment?

2009-02-10 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > I post this as an "open question" to FFL readers. > > I think it's an interesting question. If you believe > in enlightenment, and that it is within your grasp > in this lifetime, what about yourself do you believe > will *change* when y