--- Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Peter > Sutphen > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I agree with Sparaig here. That ego is the > precise > > > obstacle to realization. There can not be an ego > an > > > realization simultaneously. > > > > Hmmm. Might I ask why you believe this? > > > > Are you saying that individuality cannot coexist > > with enlightenment? What then is creation? > > > > In my experience, enlightenment is an additive > > process, not a subtractive one. Nothing is lost > > or goes away when direct perception of the trans- > > cendent is added to one's daily perception; all > > of that other stuff is still there. 200% of life, > > > as someone once said. > > > > Unc > > A related question would be if consciousness knows > itself as all > that is either created or uncreated then is that a > form of ego? > > Rick Carlstrom Good question. If this line of questioning is more than intellectual it can lead in some amazing directions. What actually is the ego? Not conceptually, but the direct experience of it? If you persue the ego experientially you can't find it, but something else will happen. That's why I love Self-inquiry so much. > > > > > 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 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/online.html 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/
