--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Akasha: > > > > Does it strike anyone else as funny, even absurd, that the whole > > > > paradigm about enlightenment on this list is dichotomous, > digital, either "on or off"? > > > > Unc: > > > YES! That's exactly the issue. > > > > > I realized that some time back, during the discussions > > > about 'appreciation.' Some comment by, I think, Tom > > > made me completely abandon my old paradigm and come up > > > with a new one that more accurately described my > > > subjective experience. > > > > A: > > > > Pure consciousness begins from the first mediation. If > > > > not before. > > > > U: > > > Before. There has never been a moment in my life when > > > I was not enlightened. > > > If you were jivna-mukti at birth, you had not need to incarnate.
That's just Hindu dogma, not accepted by everyone in the reincarnation business. > A serious point per my prior post. People can dilute, devalue, > reclassify, and redefine E criteria all they want. But if they come > back, they were wrong. Just dogma. I see three possibilities for the fully enlightened being at the time of death. They could choose to do the "drop back into the ocean" thing and not incarnate, they could choose to incarnate for the purpose of helping other sentient beings, or they could choose not to choose and just see what happens. This is actually a pretty standard Buddhist way of seeing the situation. ------------------------ 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/
