Hey FLI.
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:33 PM, fearlessinquirer <[email protected]>wrote: > There is no such thing as 'spiritual progress'. Progress implies time > and time is mind. Yes. > Where there is no mind, there is no time. In mindlessness...(to use a term).........the presence and absence of time... ....BOTH are moot. > The aim of spirituality, adviata, is to disolve the mind but most get lost > in > translation. If there is nothing as progress, there cannot be anything as aim. One implies the other. Advaita simply means not-two. In-not-two-ness.........what aim can exist? Why not? In not-twoness, who is the other, for whom the very not-twoness is something to be aimed at for understanding. The sense of a mind can never be dissolved. Just like awake today morning you cannot make love to the beautiful woman in the last night-sleep dream drama. > 'spritual progress' is no progress. It simply goes around > in circles but since you are in motion, you call this progress. > The sense of a mind is really the sense of change. When change is held to be real.........depending on some innate conditioning, change is held to be moving towards a self constructed goal, hence progressing. Or moving away and thus regressing . Rather than progress or regress..........for whom is change.....a change. > Progress in only in time and in spirituality there is no time, no > space, no concepts, only THIS pristine presence incarnate in Being as > attention, now, consciousness, give it whatever perfume you please; it > remains purely unattached and stiil. > And finally(without a connotation of an event in time or a progressive realization).... ...the concepts of "attention", "now", "consciousness" also implode. Of course the referencing of an implosion......is once more conceptual hoo haa.
