Unfortunately for you: your hype might have been part of the "hype" he was talking about - but I'm pretty sure he meant to say "tripe". ;-)
On Dec 6, 2011, at 6:02 PM, whynotnow7 wrote: > Once about every six months you say something I can agree with, and you said > it here: > > "A lot of the "enlightened" just don't measure up to the hype about > enlightenment IMO. Just sayin'." > > Yes. EXACTLY - There Is SO MUCH HYPE About It, that it makes a normal > conversation about it almost impossible. Talk about preconceptions. Probably > only second to everyone's assumptions about death. > > Enlightenment grows from within. When it is apparent, its f*ckin' obvious, > and if it isn't that is obvious too. But it doesn't "do" anything, anymore > than we do anything when we wake up in the morning. It just happens as the > result of an intent desire. > > People who are awake inside, having taken root in silence, for the first time > in their endless progression of life, like to make it known at first. > Released from prison! Oh my god! Everything falls away, unravels. Sometimes > the unraveling takes place awkwardly, but if the person is true to their > silence within, the awkward stage doesn't last very long, and then on to the > next adventure; deeper silence. > > Enlightenment blossoms as an internal process though. Aside from some > sadhana, there really isn't much monkey see, monkey do in all of it. Not much > value in aping someone else's behavior, or attempting to judge it any further > than is it likable or not. Everyone's gotta live their life still. No one > gets out of here alive and all that. > > We somehow end up with this highly distorted story of what Enlightenment is, > and how the Enlightened are supposed to act, speak and think. Let's do > ourselves a favor and just drop it - basically a road to nowhere.
