Rory Goff wrote: > > If you truly want to emerge from the suffering... > [take] a closer look at the mechanics of the > suffering itself, and short-circuiting it. Again, I > suggest: Byron Katie's "Loving What Is."
This suggestion occurred to me as I was reading this thread. As much as I enjoy reading posts by Peter, Rory, Tom and others who write from the standpoint of enlightenment, I don't much try to understand what they're saying. (Maybe it's because they all say, "You can't get this intellectually.") However, my intellect is perfectly capable of understanding the mechanics of ignorance. In the TM tradition we were taught not to analyze the darkness, but that's all my intellect *can* analyze with any success. As a result, over the past few years I've gotten acquainted with how I've made life difficult for myself. The enneagram, for example -- far from being a mere personality profiling system --explains how people justify fear, anger or image issues in dealing with the world. (My favorite was anger. I was so pissed off when I could no longer attribute my temper to aggravated pitta!) Eckhart Tolle explains how I feed my "pain body." Chapter 3 of Robert Perry's _Path of Light_ explains how the ego creates its little world and feeds off other people by attacking them. (Perry is a teacher of the Course in Miracles.) Byron Katie isn't much good at showing me how my ego screws up my life, but she is a genius at bursting the beliefs that make life difficult. Tolle and others who endorse living in the now offer a refuge from lots of grief. Between Tolle and Katie I can pretty much live a life like that I hoped TM would deliver. It's kind of a de facto enlightenment, even if it's not the real thing. Of course, I attribute my success in grokking these teachings to all my years of TM. Jai Guru Dev. - Patrick Gillam 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/
