--- In [email protected], Peter Sutphen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That I" people walk around with in waking > state DOES NOT EXIST. It is a profound delusion. It > has no more reality than the thought that you are a > big chicken or a flounder. You are simply Primordial, > Infinite Consciousness, Pure Shiva....boy, that's fun > to say! **** I cannot quite understand your reasoning dr.Pete. When you use the word "you", aren't you referring to the "I" of another person. In your writing you avoid the word "I" as referring to yourself, instead you refer a lot to "you", the "I " of an other person. Aren't you projecting out something? Wouldn't it be clearer to make a distinction between different types of "I". The "I" as an image or ideal of oneself is left behind in enlightenment, and instead you experience infinity as the source. But you don't drop the "I" as an organizing principle. It is in function, when you think: "I will do this". At least I cannot imagine sensible functioning in the world with a conscious human awareness having a body without this kind of mediating entity between an event or perception and a reaction to it. It is also a uniting process that creates a perception of continuity, rather than a label or image of oneself. This function people call "I" mostly. I have very difficult to conceive it vanishing, when you get enlightened. You have often written that the personality cannot become enlightened. Maybe not. Still you often refer to MMY, a person, as a blazing Brahman. When I saw the pictures of your dogs, I saw in them as much blazing Brahman as in MMY. That is of course quite logical, because behind their relative manifestation, or personality, they too are simply Primordial Infinite Cosciousness. Why then make such a fuss about some gurus, if the personality cannot get enlightened? Irmeli 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/
