Rick, I take it that this is your experience. For instance, is this why you participate in the Weds nights at Tom T's?
What does it mean to chip away? Isn't a gestalt shift an all at once thing. My experience is that "experience" contains its own knowledge. I use the word experience in quotes because I don't want it to refer exclusively to observables. What I mean here by knowledge is an innate and instant understanding of what is experienced. An example would be suddenly realizing that "I" as a discriminating intellect, a waking entity capable of thought, a place in space and time strongly identified with, have just come into being as a created thing - "I" didn't exist a moment ago. This was no theoretical idea, but the most concretely experienced of realities. So who knew this, and who recognized the transition into "my" existence? I didn't have to study with advaitans to recognize all of this in an instant. Or to realize that my localized existence, as in, identification with the discriminator, is a complete fiction, but one in which I am totally stuck most of the time. --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because more frequent/constant checking chips away at delusion more > effectively. > on 5/11/05 2:50 PM, anonymousff at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > But I wonder sometimes at its utility. In under an hour, I > > am sure that someone familiar with the various conceptual nuances > > and schools of thought on the topics of I, ego, doer, individuality, > > self etc., could lay them all out so that anyone of reasonably > > developed intellect could grasp the ideas and check on how well they > > relate to their own experience. After that, what is the point, > > unless it is to check in once every few years to see if one's > > perspective has changed due to the clearing of fog or the shifting > > of mirrors? > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
