They're not 'delusions', they are accounts of 'experience'.  They are writing 
using logic in an attempt to get you to understand my experience, but I 
obviously am not doing a very good job.

--- In [email protected], Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote:
>
> Kristopher,
> 
> You keep making excuses for Bill!'s delusions!
> 
> Disagreement is not "a form of suffering" unless you are attached to it...
> 
> Edgar
> 
> 
> 
> On Sep 5, 2012, at 10:36 AM, Kristopher Grey wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Comfortably stuck in cause and effect, you ignore the sledgehammer!
> > 
> > It appears to me that Bill! is not denying food is required to maintain a 
> > body, that forms appear to maintain forms (no independent origination) - he 
> > is denying this assumption of "have to" - this neediness that goes with it. 
> > You don't need to live, and ultimately won't  (impermanence). When hungry, 
> > eat if you are able. When this is perceived as need (AKA - lack), suffering 
> > will arise over your ability to do so, over thoughts of death. Your needs, 
> > your sense of lack, your suffering.
> > 
> > Disagreement itself, a form of suffering. Misunderstanding, a form of 
> > recognition. Same.
> > 
> > KG
> > 
> > On 9/5/2012 10:14 AM, Edgar Owen wrote:
> >>  
> >> O, for God's sakes Bill!!!!!
> >> 
> >> 
> >> You are certifiable! I've never heard such metaphysical New Age nonsense 
> >> and certainly never expected it to come from your lips..... Enlightened 
> >> people don't need to eat! Sheesh!
> >> 
> >> Edgar
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On Sep 5, 2012, at 8:38 AM, Bill! wrote:
> >> 
> >>>  
> >>> Edgar (no longer and Merle),
> >>> 
> >>> After enlightenment you do not have to eat. You realize food is not 
> >>> essential. You may choose to eat, but you don't have to.
> >>> 
> >>> Illusions do vanish upon realization of Buddha Nature. You may choose to 
> >>> bring them back or they may reappear without your choice. But after 
> >>> realizing Buddha Nature you know that all dualistic thought is 
> >>> fundamentally illusion (not real).
> >>> 
> >>> ...Bill! 
> >>> 
> > 
> > 
> >
>




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