--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
[...]
> I'd suggest it gets whittled back to making
> the kinds of distinctions that are necessary
> for survival, albeit perhaps survival more
> broadly defined than the merely keep-me-alive-
> long-enough-to-pass-on-my-genes variety.

I think it goes back to overshadoing of Self. Distinction-making that 
overshadows Self is not supported in enlightenment. Survival issues, or 
whatever, are not directly germane. Perhaps there's a Darwinian 
component, but as some have pointed out, the call for celibacy on the 
part of their students by many who are deemed enlightened is quite 
possibly self-defeating from an evolutionary perspective.

If the people who become enlightened don't pass on their genes, then...






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