--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], Peter Sutphen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > This is a very legitimate complaint about Advaitic > > approaches that fail to explain how an initial > > intellectual understanding that one is "already > > enlightened" can be utilized to trigger realization. > > If this understanding is held simply as another waking > > state concept, then it will have no impact- just > > another conceptual burden. However, if this > > understanding is used as a springboard for authentic > > inquiry, much can occur. > > Exactly. The misunderstanding comes from attempting > to make a non-intellectual process into an intellectual > exercise.
Read the first sentence of Peter's paragraph above again, noting in particular the words "fail to explain." It's the one who presents the intellectual understanding while failing to explain the nonintellectual process who makes it into an intellectual exercise. 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/
