Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Defining Enlightenment and Awakening

[Llundrub]

In this world people are all doing many practices for liberation.  In none of these practices is anything other happening than this: the stream of consciousness is the ground, it is the path, it is the goal. There is nothing else but this. Those who say otherwise have gone off on a tangent. The stream of consciousness is the ground, it is the path, it is the goal. This is it, That is it. All this is that. En How.     ----- Original Message ----- From: Vaj To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 8:20 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Defining Enlightenment and Awakening Good morning Rick: On Jun 18, 2005, at 3:06 AM, Rick wrote: > Yes, if only it were that simple. It may have been a delusion of > self all along but this delusion believed in over countless > lifetimes created an immensely complex mountain of Karmic energy > that demands to be unwound. Step one: Discriminate purusha from > prakriti. Step two: Unravel the mess that was made (without falling > back into a delusional state). Until every last one of those Karmic > seeds are burnt to ash there are still remnants of the individual. Interestingly, even M. states that in order for CC to be possible, one must attain "nirvikalpa samadhi"--and of course this is what allows the kleshas and the obscurations to dissolve. The sad thing is we were never taught a path to nirvikalpa. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' 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 the Yahoo! Terms of Service.