You've been ready too many books you're conceptually enlightened
On Jun 21, 3:37 am, jp EnlightenmentGuy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 20, 5:56 pm, Mark Ty-Wharton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If you are quoting Wayne Liquorman why are you asking such simplistic > > questions here? > > Seems like this is how it often goes. > > Here, there was a lifting of the veil, an opening, clear seeing, > Enlightenment. For a time. > > Then it seemingly went away. > > Then... DAMNATION. The pendulum swung all the way the other way. > > A well-known process. > > This part sometimes called The Dark Night of the Soul -- Saint John of > the Cross feeling abandoned by God. > > Or in the Zen 10 Ox Hearding Pictures, probably 2 and 3 and 4 > unfolding simultaneously, sometimes seemingly progressing, sometimes > reverting all the way back to the beginning. > > I guess I was hoping somewhere in a group of people actually calling > itself Advaita Zen there would be some who were familiar with this > process, perhaps had even been through it, and could guide. > Spectacularly difficult to find a wise and skillful teacher. > > SEIZING THE OX > You have exhausted all your faculties to take hold of him. > Because his spirit is strong and his strength abundant, > it is difficult to rid him of his habits. > Sometimes he goes to the top of the high plain. > Other times he resides in clouds and smoke.
