--- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > So I should consider the enlightened person's > > perception of my motivations to be infallible? > > You are course free to do whatever you like; I am not here to try > to run your life for you.
Whew, that's a relief to know. > If you are asking what *I* would do, then I > suppose if I were hearing the same diagnosis over time from a > number of people whom I considered to be enlightened, and if I > considered myself to be in ignorance, I believe I would try to be > open to what they were attempting to awaken in me -- and not merely > continue to lose myself into the inevitable pain and resistance > their diagnosis brought up. :-) Even if you didn't find it resonated on *any* level? (Let's remember the specific diagnosis we're talking about here: that I am trying to avoid becoming enlightened.) I mean, I honestly don't know what to say to that. It's like telling me I really prefer vanilla to chocolate. > > > Otherwise, why would I consider them enlightened, > > > and myself not? Why would I wish to cling to My Own Way, or the > Way > > > I Have Always Done Things, if I were not content with my own > > > condition? > > > > Those are the only two possibilities, assuming that > > person's perception of my reality is The Truth, and > > being content with my own condition? > > No! There is the Third Way, which embraces the other two whole- > heartedly -- and I recommend it whole-heartedly :-) > > > > > I'm really kind of astonished at how *prickly* this > > > > topic seems to make many of you, as if it were > > > > bringing up something you didn't really want to look > > > > at yourselves. What that could be, I have no idea. > > > > > > If you are feeling our prickles for us > > > > Not for you, no. If I get pricked by a porcupine, > > am I feeling its prickles *for* it? > > So you are really saying you are feeling pricked *by* us, as > opposed to how prickly this topic seems to make us? Uh, no. > I can only speak for > myself, but I am not attempting to prick you, only to hold a mirror > up to your primordial splendor :-) Never mind. 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/
