> > > > I personally feel now that individual enlightenment in this > > > > lifetime is beyond me... > > Saddest statement I've seen yet here. > > Unc > > Sad indeed - but realistic and strangely "liberating".
I think "liberating" would be the effect of not spending much time thinking about enlightenment or pursuing it as The goal of life. Without exception, all of the people I know who have had periods of enlightenment (lasting anywhere from weeks to months) feel that way about it now that the experience has faded. Their first realiz- ation was unanimously, "This is nothing new...this has been here all along." So what's to miss if the realiz- ation fades? But not believing that enlightenment -- which is already always present in all of us -- is not *possible* in this lifetime? That strikes me as a little different. Unc P.S. Of all the people I know who had these extended flashes of CC, without exception they all have said that if you'd asked them the day before the experience began how far they were from enlightenment, they would've laughed at the idea of being "close" and said, "Probably about as far as I was when I started meditating." Inter- estingly, for each of them those words of denial turned out to be literally true. 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/
