--- In [email protected], "Robert Gimbel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --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.
Agreed. The supposed physiological counterparts of enlightenment are IMO just a myth made up by people about a mythical future state they call enlightenment so that they don't have to live in the real present state of enlightenment. > 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). Yet everpresent. Go figure. > 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; That's what I've been referring to, exactly. It's like the self wants attention, validation, some kind of feedback to per- petuate its belief that it exists. Self pity and indignation at not being taken seriously are two excellent methods of perpetuating the self. Laughing at oneself is one of the best methods for extinguishing the self, which is probably why so few people are able to do it. :-) 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/
