--- In [email protected], Peter Sutphen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > > What's interesting (to me, anyway) is that the > > mind is perfectly capable of recognizing the > > logic that puts Brahman beyond its capacity > > to recognize, but cannot, of its own accord, > > take it the next step and shut the hell up. > > > > Or mine can't, anyway... > > Isn't that amazing? Curse of the mind. It says, yeah, > yeah, I know, but.......yada, yada, yada. A petty > tyrant. It can bring you to the door, but it can't > enter.This is why sustained experiences of Brahman (as > Atman) "blow" the mind. The mind looses the > stranglehood it used to have and can't function in the > same way.
On the old TM list, Jonothan Levy used to talk about how the mind works in ever-widening circles to maintain its dominance. It figures out that it is incapable of comprehending Brahman, but then it struts around proclaiming how smart it is to have made that discovery. Next it realizes that as long as it keeps strutting, Brahman remains out of reach. And then it proclaims itself a genius for having made *that* discovery. And so on...it's turtles all the way down. 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/
