RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

Wed, 12 Oct 2005 08:16:18 -0700

Hi Peter and thank you for the welcome! Ha-ha…I hope it is a tough neighborhood! Good for learning J

 

I can talk about the experience directly, but am never sure “what” to talk about. To tell you the truth, I knew very little when it happened and I know even less now.

I’m not sure what anyone would like to hear. How it felt? How it changed me? Why it was difficult? What happened spiritually and physically? There would be so much to tell!!!

 

Ego loss is a tricky subject for me, because when it is gone…there is no “I” to lose it. So in that regard, of course I have an ego lol. When “I” disappeared there was no “me” to experience it…quite literally. So did “I” lose ego? That is a good question… (Rubbing my chin in deep thought).

I will tell you the experience and let you decide. I was in water at the time what I consider to be me began to disseminate. The next thing “I” was aware of was the question “who are you?” The question reminded me that I did, in fact, exist….as I was trying to remember who I was, I felt the words “I am…” coming from my own mind and everything came rushing back as I was launched out of the water. (I swear I felt a hand push me out of the water at the same moment I realized my legs could hold me). I most definitely would have drowned had it not been for whatever asked me who I was.

 

So, is that what people mean when they reference ego loss? I’ll never know….but it is what I mean when “I” say it ;)

There was no me…so how can I say I lost it? It just happened…It simply was.   

 

When I reference “I” now….it is a lot like referencing your hand. It is yours and you can use it and you can feel it…but it is not “you” complete.

 

I sure hope I make sense lol. Words become so awkward in these subjects; at least for me they do.

 

Someone told me once that “enlightenment” is not only being able to bridge into the “heavens”….but being able to go AND come back at will.

I liked that…

 

Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

 

Hi Paula and welcome to our tough neighborhood! Can
you talk about your experiences directly? You seem to
have experienced a degree of ego loss, one of the
points of enlightenment discussed here quite often. Do
you have an ego now, or is there only "no thing" when
mind tries to reference an "I"?

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