--- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajradhatu@> wrote: > > > > > > On Apr 12, 2008, at 4:22 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: > > > > > It looks like you, too, are making the same "perfection = > > > intertia/not giving a shit" mistake that Jim keeps mentioning > > > and that keeps falling on deaf ears... er, blind eyes. > > > > I don't believe in perfection. > > > > Beliefs like "perfection" when referring to people or 'states of > > consciousness' are just beliefs. > > Any idea can be just a belief, including your "wrong View" doctrine. > For me, the "perfection of now" is a useful descriptor for abiding in > equanimity with what is. It's the reality of my experience; belief > arises from the experience because that's what dual mind tends to do > with ideas, but the belief, itself, is not important. > Yep- the experience if it is clear and sustained may eventually lead to a belief, a hypothesis anyway, or not. It is the experience that matters- who cares about a belief?
Such a tortured and convoluted process to try to conform experience to a belief, though that is the way the dual mind operates, which is why it fights like hell to disavow the obvious. Even inventing doctrines to try and force experience into its "safe" channel. What a losing proposition! May as well try to call enlightenment "pseudo advaita", or something equally crazy.
