--- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Jun 27, 2005, at 11:30 AM, Rory Goff wrote: > > > > > Yes, I guess this is where we differ -- I honestly don't think > > > any "path" is going to take us anywhere other than here, and so > > > I don't think Buddhahood can be "achieved" at all. Rather, "we" > > > do what "we" do until "we" don't, if you see what I mean. > > > > And why would you choose to believe that this is not a path? > > I am not saying this didn't feel like a path at the time -- only > that after the fact, one sees it that led exactly nowhere. Hence I > don't really get the whole discussion of which path is better (or > gets us "enlightened" or "leads us to Buddhahood" or whatever), or > which view is better, and so on. To me they all look like exactly > the same path and the same view -- a view involving denial of here- > now in favor of something conceptualized and projected not-here- > now; e.g. something "better," "later." Am I missing something here?
I don't think so. "Path" has *exactly* to do with not-here-now-ness. When one realizes here-now-ness, and realizes that there was never a time when one was *not* here-now, the idea of path becomes laughable. However, path gives folks something to do with themselves until that realization dawns. And it's probably better than fighting wars or whacking off. Unc 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/
