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________________________________ From: Emily Reyn <emilymae.r...@yahoo.com> To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 1:59 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Enlightenment A saw a healer, who I didn't realize was Hindu-based at the time and told me that if I didn't do my spiritual work, I'd reincarnate as a lower life form. I asked her for an example - she said "cat." I said, "I'm O.K. with that." >________________________________ > From: Michael Jackson <mjackso...@yahoo.com> >To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> >Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 10:12 PM >Subject: [FairfieldLife] Enlightenment > > > >Thought I would offer this for purposes of discussion. These are my own >beliefs at this time: > > >From the teachings or musings if you will of people like Eckhart Tolle and Anita Moorjani, Adyashanti one has to believe that the whole thing about enlightenment and the whole schtick that goes with it is complete made up bullshit. > > >Some meditation teachers like to teach that enlightenment is something that is achievable in this lifetime, but in truth it is already here, covered over by egoic perception. Maharishi was particularly prone to promulgate this idea that enlightenment was something to precious and rare that needed to be pursued, to be chased, and he and teachers like him do that to be able to get more people to buy their nosturms. > > >But evidently what we have called “enlightenment” is our natural state must by virtue of being, just by being. You don’t have to go anywhere or do anything to become this “state” of awareness or being, but just be. It must mean that meditation and seeking will never lead to the experience of enlightenment, and when most people talk about their enlightenment they are referring to a fluctuating experience of consciousness. > > >This to me also means that the old Hindu stuff about having to spend countless lifetimes as plants, bugs, animals and so forth until you “merit” a human body is also complete made up bullshit. Why would the Infinite Magnificence, the Unlimited Love that we are choose to do that? I can’t think of a reason. > > >Any thoughts folks? > >
