--The only difference between being "Realized" and being "Un- realized", doesn't have anything to do with the ego, the mind, the feelings, the body, survival instincts, the passing on of DNA, or anything relative. It has to do with recognizing the true "Self". The true "Self" is nothing other than silence, inner silence. When you can experience pure silence in meditation, pure stillness, and be awake in the silence, then you have realized the "Self". You realize that this "Self" is beyond anything relative, anything physical, anything ego oriented, anything judgemental, anything at all: it's just silence, unbounded pure silence(something in rather diminishing supply, these days). Ignorance always has to be defended; as it is never true and always false; it always compares and judges, that is it's job, it is the ego, the false self, the small self, the "poor me" as Eckhart Tolle, calls it; The witness is always there, it is just sleeping now; it will awake soon...
- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, I think I understand what you are saying here -- you insist > > that ignorance is real, not merely a belief > > Not just real, but an *important* reality. How *dare* you > suggest it's neither! > > I have a friend down here in the south of France who has > a bit of a Zorro fetish. He knows all the Zorro books and > movies and TV shows backwards and forwards and even > dresses up like Zorro for parties and special occasions. > He has fun with this fantasy of his. We have fun with him > having fun with this fantasy of his. > > But what makes it work is that Pete doesn't expect any of > us to believe he's really Zorro. He doesn't expect us to > take his fantasy seriously, because he doesn't take his > fantasy seriously. > > Seems to me this discussion is about someone who > insists that people take her fantasy of unenlightenment > seriously. If we don't, we're "demeaning" her and some- > how putting her down. 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/
