Reminds me of the recent book written by a disenchanted former follower of Cohen's; who forked over his inheritance of (?) 70K. After he came to his senses he sued Cohen to get the money returned and succeeded, somehow.
--- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <r...@...> wrote: > > Quote that just came in that seems to relate to a point Barry often brings > up: > > For the Sake of the Whole > Most seekers are interested in enlightenment only for their own sake, only > for their own personal liberation. Indeed, when we begin the spiritual life, > the most important thing to us is our own happiness, our own personal > experience of expanded states of consciousness, our own enlightenment. But > there comes a time when some of us begin to recognize that spiritual > experience is not only for our own welfare. Because we have gone deeply into > the spiritual experience, we have discovered something sacred. It is the > recognition of an obligation, an obligation that literally commands us to > cease to live for ourselves alone, but instead to live for the sake of the > whole. In that obligation, it becomes apparent that this life is not our own > in any personal sense, and that true liberation can be found only when this > life is lived not for our own happiness but in the service of a cause that > is always greater than ourselves. > > Andrew Cohen >
