My experience has been more like, 'be careful what you wish for' - due to thoughts being entertained at a more powerful place, desires happen - all of them.
---In [email protected], <emilymaenot@...> wrote : From the information Emptybill posted: "Will I get everything I want when I'm "enlightened?" "No. But once you know self, you won’t want anything else." ---In [email protected], <sharelong60@...> wrote : Emily, methunks that there is no disconnect between enlightenment, which you asked about, and life, which was the context of my answer and includes BOTH kinds of smile (-: On Saturday, March 8, 2014 9:10 PM, "emilymaenot@..." <emilymaenot@...> wrote: Methinks you may have changed what I was asking to make an attempt to talk of the topic, "life." I have now changed my own context to "Share talking about life" and I am amused (in a friendly way). ---In [email protected], <sharelong60@...> wrote : Emily, emptybill and Doc are way better at describing it than I am. I just have glimpses and sense it all around in everything and everyone. It's a state of wondrous paradox. On Saturday, March 8, 2014 7:02 PM, "emilymaenot@..." <emilymaenot@...> wrote: Share, how does your comment relate to the article and to what Emptybill's comment was? Can you elaborate? What is "enlightenment" to you. Sounds like you think it is a "thing"? ---In [email protected], <sharelong60@...> wrote : Emptybill, Sorry, I did not weep, I read and enjoyed, thank you. It's ok if enlightenment gets me instead of me getting it. Six of one, half dozen of another (-: So we could say, combining your words and punditsir's: enlightenment is only gonna get me as much as it gets me. That feels right. On Saturday, March 8, 2014 2:24 PM, "emptybill@..." <emptybill@...> wrote: Share, Sorry to have to say it again to you but none of us will get any "enlightenment" at all, not now or at any time - never, ever. Enlightenment is a silly scam to get you to want something that you already are by nature. It is more accurately called selling water by the river. There is nothing to obtain other than the direct discernment of your real nature. Read it and weep. http://www.nevernotpresent.com/faqs/relationship-yoga-vedanta/ http://www.nevernotpresent.com/faqs/relationship-yoga-vedanta/
