--- In [email protected], Peter Sutphen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Jeff Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What happens to the individual when he drops his > > body after attaining > > enlightenment? One unbounded ocean of consciousness > > in motion? > > Nothing can happen to an enlightened individual after > dropping the body because there is no individual for > anything to happen to. You are understanding > enlightenment in terms of waking state. Enlightenment > can not be understood from waking state. Waking state > assume there is an "I" that stuff happens to. That > just is not true anymore in enlightenment. Yea, I > know, it makes no sense to the mind, but then > enlightenment has nothing to do with mind other than > squashing it. > -Squashed like bug
So, this makes me wonder, was the existence of a body the cause of believing an individual existed in the first place? Or, was the belief that an individual exists the cause for the existence of a body? Any ideas about why an intelligent universe would manifest as an individual body? Rick Carlstrom 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/
