--- In [email protected], "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.
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