--- In [email protected], Peter Sutphen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Which is why this intellectualization is > > useless, either for encouragement or for > > putting people down. > > > > All it does is push things back a level: > > Instead of having to overcome the reality > > of being overshadowed, now it's the false > > feeling of the reality of being overshadowed > > that must be overcome. > > 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. > Yes, knowing the outcome, that of disappearance of any duality, puzzles the mind and spurs the heart to inquire "How can this be so?".
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