--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Irmeli Mattsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > > Another angle to it is that whatever actions you assume > > authorship of, you get to take (karmic) responsibility > > for. Michael Dean Goodman has pointed out that in the > > phrase "spontaneous right action," the emphasis is on > > "spontaneous," not "right." The premise about > > enlightenment is that the enlightened person always acts > > spontaneously according to the dictates of nature, > > without mistakenly assuming authorship of his/her actions. > > If a president feels himself to be waging a war on behalf of > God and don't take authorship for this war, he will get to > heaven for so dutifully obeying God's will?
If he takes authorship of obeyeing God's will in waging the war, he takes on its karmic consequences, according to the premise. Not assuming authorship isn't intellectual or emotional or a matter of belief, Irmeli, it's an experience of consciousness in which one is identified with the Self (which does not "do" anything) rather than the self.
