RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Regarding Judy's Comment/ Is Ego an I or a Me?

2007-10-01 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bronte Baxter Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 1:21 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Regarding Judy's Comment/ Is Ego an I or a Me? If I seem paranoid in believing the guru set does

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Regarding Judy's Comment/ Is Ego an I or a Me?

2007-09-25 Thread Bronte Baxter
Judy wrote: I think the notion of free will is an artifact of duality. Bronte writes: Wow, Judy. This statement of yours demonstrates that these aren't just semantic distinctions between us. I assume you are saying that from your perspective free will does not exist in higher

[FairfieldLife] Re: Regarding Judy's Comment/ Is Ego an I or a Me?

2007-09-25 Thread lurkernomore20002000
Judy wrote: I think the notion of free will is an artifact of duality. Bronte writes: Wow, Judy. This statement of yours demonstrates that these aren't just semantic distinctions between us. Hi Bronte, This statement aside, I think that what Judy may be saying, is that on the whole, do

[FairfieldLife] Re: Regarding Judy's Comment/ Is Ego an I or a Me?

2007-09-25 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bronte Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Judy wrote: I think the notion of free will is an artifact of duality. Bronte writes: Wow, Judy. This statement of yours demonstrates that these aren't just semantic distinctions between us. I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Regarding Judy's Comment/ Is Ego an I or a Me?

2007-09-24 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bronte Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I replied to this once. Somehow it never posted, so here goes again: From Judy, quoting Bronte: To claim that the ego is only a Me is to perceive only its limited expression. Such limited

[FairfieldLife] Re: Regarding Judy's Comment/ Is Ego an I or a Me?

2007-09-24 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bronte Baxter brontebaxter8@ wrote: I replied to this once. Somehow it never posted, so here goes again: From Judy, quoting Bronte: To claim that the ego

[FairfieldLife] Re: Regarding Judy's Comment/ Is Ego an I or a Me?

2007-09-24 Thread yagyax
--Nope Billy - Bronte is more correct - although Auth is technically correct to a certain extent.. The bottom line, beyond the lively exchange of ideas, amounts to a thorough, deepseated POV about how one views the world and the ultimate goal of human evolution: (as discussed in a previous

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Regarding Judy's Comment/ Is Ego an I or a Me?

2007-09-24 Thread Peter
--- yagyax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Obviously, the false I does vanish but this is only one component of what makes up a person, which distinguishes one person from another: MMY is not SSRS, etc. What distinguishes MMY from SSRS are space/time qualities. Of course these are

[FairfieldLife] Re: Regarding Judy's Comment/ Is Ego an I or a Me?

2007-09-24 Thread hyperbolicgeometry
---No, you're wrong. In a broad definition of individual, one can define an entity as become composed of relative components that do not converge on a entity called the I. Thus, Ramana Maharshi is definitely an individual, otherwise he would not dare use such words as I and me in the context

[FairfieldLife] Re: Regarding Judy's Comment/ Is Ego an I or a Me?

2007-09-24 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my understanding is that if you identify with the Self rather than the self, Judy, in your framework: Who is the you that is identifying with the small self? If the answer is the ego, then what is the differentiation

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Regarding Judy's Comment/ Is Ego an I or a Me?

2007-09-24 Thread Bronte Baxter
Hey, New Morning. I've been loving your posts on opinions that are 97.9 % true, rules of engagement for dialoging, etc. Your observations are very profound to me. Regarding this question, I'm not sure what you are asking -- this is thorny stuff to put into words, so abstract -- but

[FairfieldLife] Re: Regarding Judy's Comment/ Is Ego an I or a Me?

2007-09-24 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rocks have no self-referential consciousness so they are not individuals. And enlightenment, you have suggested, does not need a nervous system. Which is quite a distinct proposition from the almost truism that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Regarding Judy's Comment/ Is Ego an I or a Me?

2007-09-24 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: my understanding is that if you identify with the Self rather than the self, Judy, in your framework: Who is the you that is identifying with the