--- In [email protected], Peter Sutphen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > Gangaji talks alot about this. She says that in some > Zen schools it is called "the stink of enlightenment". > that's what I love about FFL, discovering a process that I have chanced upon independently being openly discussed.
My personal technique for this 'stickiness' (I call it pride) of the ego or the mind to ever increasing revelations about enlightenment, is to first tell it to STFU, and then I go blank so it can't find itself. Works well, because the mind untethered then forgets it had identified with the previous revelation and moves on to other things. 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/
