--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], new.morning <no_reply@> wrote: > > ><snip> Certainly a large percentage > of the experiences claimed as "enlightenment" > by Jim and Rory fall into the category of just > some overwhelming emotion.
On the one hand, you're quite right; no emotion is a substitute for "enlightenment"; nothing transitory is a substitute for "enlightenment". On the other hand, you're killing another straw- man. I claim no experience as "enlightenment." Nor does Jim, as far as I can see. It would appear you're still managing to ignore me, as I repeat yet again that Death is the door to Life: everything false must die; the "eye of the needle" can accept nothing but Truth. No experience, no "tradition," no concept, no belief, no attachment, no "I" can survive the Long View. Death is a sculptor/sculpture, carefully chipping everything away that is not Real. And that's every "thing." *After* Death, now -- that's different! But you're in no position to evaluate any of that until you Die. Surrender to the Crone, and then we'll talk.
