on 5/20/05 6:12 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>>> 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?
Most of the people I know, who live here in Fairfield, awakened years ago and they haven't lost it. It has only become deeper, richer, and clearer. A few are more recent and they haven't lost it either. Then there are a few others who did lose it. 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/
