--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I like that analogy-- it works. After working with my mind to > refine, refine, refine, and discriminate, the most difficult thing > to "get" for me was the letting go, into enlightenment. It occurred > because I had exhausted everything else, and in the process had > refined my thought and action to become "worthy" of the state of > enlightenment. > > So it seems like a very basic trap if you will, of everyone that > approaches, and eventually (who can say when?) completes this > process. Especially difficult for those who have spent so much time > on the refinement of thought and studying the process from a > dualistic standpoint. Very difficult to let go. So much > rationalization and false ownership for holding on to what has been > learned to that point. > > Or in some cases the seeker tries to get it by declaring that all > viewpoints they have are essentially worthless, or distinctly > transient-- which is just another attempt to "capture" > enlightenment, by the dualistic mind; not enlightenment at all. Yeah, true. Another thing about that canary-pecking-at-the-mirror analogy -- When we consider that the mirror completely surrounds and encases the canary, it could also be called an egg. And how do we get out of the egg except by peck, peck pecking at it?! *rofl*
