--- jim_flanegin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- 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. Like someone with ADD (or ADHD). Take them off-track for a few seconds and they can't remember what they were doing before. Another process is to let the pride come in fully and completely and allow the energy to flow freely through the body. Now it's simply a bodily experience and has no meaning for the mind to attach to. > > > > > 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 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com 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/
