--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jun 9, 2005, at 3:32 PM, Robert Gimbel wrote: > > > Well, how do we keep the ego, still lurking in the shadows, at bey, > > always ready to ponce and take the power back to it's little self? > > So, however we can stay in the self-referral frame, we stay out of the > > ego. I guess that is the trick...or the surrender..to Self. > > > > Ego, the "I-am-maker", ahamkara keeps it's limitation going mainly > through "asmita" the sense of "I-am-ness" of "composite sentience". > Asmita is a klesha, an affliction, whose real name is "stupor". Until > stupor is destroyed in meditation, it will be impossible to see the > reflection/illusion of Buddhi reflecting Purusha. The reason it is > composite is because we're fooled into not getting that > purusha+prakriti ain't purusha. > > Therefore discriminate and make the jump. Or not. > > Meditation with objects or supports gives rise to samadhis still > containing I-am-ness (asmita-matra). Therefore it is helpful to > integrate some higher practice or at least transition by meditating on > subtler and subtler supports until purusha can be discriminated. >
One man's subtle is another man's not-subtle. > My .02 USD. 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/
