Nice post anon. Please post more often. I like it when people talk about that bus that runs people over! -Peter
--- anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com 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/
