--Can't speak for Jim but I liked it since it shows what a big difference there is between you and the Great Ones: (e.g. Karunamayi, Shreemaa, Amma, Guru Dev, MMY, Dalai Lama, SSRS, etc...on and on); vs the mediocre ones: (e.g. Ramesh Balsekar, Gangaji, Andrew Cohen, Byron Katie, Eckart Tolle, Wayne Liquorman;...in seemingly endless appearances like termites coming out of one's wall). Quick - call the bug man!
- In [email protected], "Sunyata" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It is too easy to put ourselves into a trance using familiar, > high-sounding words ... so please don't start. I won't either. > > The great movers and shakers were not small egos; they were, in the > very best sense of the term, big egos, precisely because the ego (the > functional vehicle of the gross realm) can and does exist alongside > the soul (the vehicle of the subtle) and the Self (vehicle of the > causal). To the extent these great teachers moved the gross realm, > they did so with their egos, because the ego is the functional vehicle > of that realm. They were not, however, identified merely with their > egos (that's a narcissist), they simply found their egos plugged into > a radiant Cosmic source. The great yogis, saints and sages > accomplished so much precisely because they were not timid little > toadies but great big egos, plugged into the dynamic ground and goal > of the Cosmos itself, plugged into their own higher Self, alive to the > pure atman (the pure I-I) that is one with Brahman; they opened their > mouths and the world trembled, fell to its knees, and confronted its > radiant Goddess. > > I pray that I never have to say that again. > > How is that for a description dear SanDiego? >
