--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > > And, IMO, it doesn't, and never has. What the world needs > is a book or set of books that does for enlightenment what > the Harry Potter books have done for magic -- make it ordinary, > everyday. Because it is. It doesn't *replace* everyday life, with > its trials and tribulations and pettiness and glories. It merely > adds to that life, supplements it. > > The most valuable teaching about enlightenment I know of > is, "Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water; after > enlightenment, chop wood and carry water." Enlightenment > changes nothing. But everything is changed, because enlight- > enment is added into the mix. I suspect that if more teachers > talked like that, instead of putting the enlightened up on a > pedestal, and the concept of enlightenment up there with it, > more people would actually become enlightened.
Nice observations; agreed! Only by throwing all the so-called criteria away did ordinary/extraordinary Reality reawaken here, at any rate. We stumble headlong into THAT, warts and all :-) 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/
