--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" <j_alexander_stanley@> > wrote: > > > > The very same thing is what jumped out for me. As I see it, > > from the perspective of "Waking Down Brand Second Birth > > Awakening", having awoken to my ocean nature makes being a > > wave/drop a WHOLE lot more fun and easier to deal with. Like > > Adyashanti describes it, it's a very peaceful, quiet freedom. > > For me, it's such a huge relief that I can't comprehend > > someone thinking it's not good enough. > > Similarly, I cannot conceive of anyone clinging to > and glorifying the Maharishi-promoted idea that the > ultimate goal of life -- having realized "200% of > life" (transcendent and relative coexisting peace- > fully in enlightenment) -- is to at that point die > and go back to 100% (transcendent only), as if that > were an admirable or a worthy goal, much less the > "highest goal in life."
I guess I never got the full memo, because mine stopped at 200%. I didn't get the part glorifying death of the body. > I think that a lot of my inability to conceive of > such a belief system is the same thing that gives > me pause with Buddha's supposed First Noble Truth, > that "Life is suffering." Life is *not* suffering > for me. Never has been. Hope that it never will be. > Unlike many, I was *never* drawn to meditation and > the spiritual path because I felt that my current > life was "suffering" or didn't work. I felt that > my life was pretty cool; I was merely looking for > ways to make it cooler. I do understand the concept of "life is suffering" because I did spend decades in egoic aversion to how the I/me story shows up and egoic grasping for fulfillment in the relative world. Which is not to say that there is no longer *any* aversion/grasping going on; it's just no longer the governing force. I do still experience a certain degree of suffering when I allow myself to get caught up in a polarity, like I'm doing with the issue of Dan's suicide. I think what he did was a horrible, cruel, ignoble, selfish act... a giant "Fuck You!" to the whole community, and because of that, I find these new age hagiographies of him offensive.
