RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

[Paula Youmans]

So, when we stop living the surrealistic reality of our assumed limitations, and become free, we are said to then be 'enlightened'. But it is merely relative to what our past experience has been.     Hi Jim …thanks for your reply. I was thinking about that line you wrote above and you must be right.   It also made me realize that it is a concept that I don’t need to put in a box to wrap my hands around. I don’t really like using words that I don’t have a clear idea of what it means, but I think I am getting a better understanding. Kind of like when people say they are broke…I used to think that it meant that they have no money, but people don’t use it that way at all. I’ve heard people that were in my eyes very wealthy, say that they were broke when what they meant is they have less money than they did last week. Perhaps we prize it so greatly because of the subjective experience both of inner and outer freedom, and the knowledge, ability, responsibility and love that comes with it.   Sometimes I wonder if a part of me is being lazy and looking for some endpoint so I can go back to watching family guy and eating cheetos (I’m teasing kind of).   And yet, once this state of inner and outer freedom is reached, life goes on, relative responsibilities and achievements continue   Like the old saying; “before enlightenment one chops wood and carries water. After enlightenment, one chops wood and carries water.” Ugh.   Yet, on the horizon of our timeless lives ...another enlightenment beckons... YEAH!!!!!! :-D 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  Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.