--- In [email protected], "Llundrub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On some level, all this waiting, all this > > avoidance of enlightenment as a Here And Now > > phenomenon may actually *be* "perfect just as it > > is." But it sure strikes me as a pretty silly, > > self-indulgent form of perfection. > > ------I consider it so dualistic as to be really Satanic in > the truest sense of the word.
"In the truest sense of the word," possibly. In the original Aramaic, the term 'Satan' simply means adversary. It started out as a term to describe anyone who was caught in what they perceived as an adversarial relationship. The TB TMer is caught in an adversarial relationship with their own ignorance and with the perceived ignor- ance of the world. The more they fight "against* the ignorance and resent it and feel sorry for themselves for being unenlightened, the stronger the ignorance becomes and the further away enlightenment is perceived to be. The more they believe there is something they can do to relieve the ignorance, the more there is to be done. By prolonging the fight, they prolong their ignorance, because a fight needs an adversary. Compare and contrast to those on this forum who just dropped the adversarial relationship with their own ignorance. The moment they did, the ignorance was revealed as non-existent. It just went poof!, as if it had never existed. It never existed. No adver- sarial relationship with it ever existed. The ignorance they once fought against disappeared like smoke the moment they stopped fighting it. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
