--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > I worked with a teacher for many years who per- > sonified the "I can't tell you the 'truth' about > enlightenment because there IS no 'truth' about > enlightenment that can be put into words" philos- > ophy I have been rappin' about recently. <snip> > And so what happened, with all the care that he > took to make this point -- over and over and over > and over and over, for almost two decades? Many > of his former students regularly do *exactly* > what he told them not to. They glom onto some > quote, delivered in a particular context, to a > particular audience, from and about a particular > state of consciousness, and they try to turn it > into some cosmic "rule" or "guideline" or piece > of incontrovertible dogma. Go figure.
You mean, a quote like: "I can't tell you the 'truth' about enlightenment because there IS no 'truth' about enlightenment that can be put into words"?
