--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: <snip> > I perceive a real danger in the *myth* about > enlightenment that says it's a state in which one's > very thoughts and perceptions and decisions and > actions are reflections of The Truth. > > Believing that is true to some extent "relieves" > the person caught in such a state from the need to > discriminate or make the kinds of everyday decisions > about the rightness or the wrongness of his/her > thoughts and actions. It's a *lazy* state of mind, > in which one has come to believe that one no longer > *needs* to discriminate. Just act, and the action > will be "right" by definition. > > Many of us have seen this on FFL in the past as Rory > or Jim exemplified this belief system for us. It was > *impossible* to get either of them to consider, even > for a moment, that anything they ever did or said was > inappropriate or wrong. The thinking seemed to have > been, "If I said it or did it, it *by definition* was > right. I'm realized...it *has* to have been right."
Funnily enough, there's a very different premise held by some that seems nevertheless to manifest in the identical behavior, i.e., refusing to consider that anything they ever did or said was inappropriate or wrong. That premise is that there is *no such thing* as "right" or "wrong," and moreover that since everything they do and say is done and said "in the moment" and may change in the next moment, they are therefore not accountable for what they say and do. Sound familiar?
