--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
You express this fight to the death between the small self and the Self, all-encompassing, very well! This isn't peculiar to the TMers of the world. It is the same life and death struggle within everyone. It is just that the TMers have *formally* begun their fortunate fight to the death, whether they are aware of it or not. ------------------------ 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/
