--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > [email protected], "tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Judy Stein writes: snipped > > > Or to put it another way: It's not that I have > > > expectations of what enlightenment is like; it's > > > that I expect it *not* to be like ignorance. > > > > > > Tom T comment: > > > Why do you want to have any expectation about how it is supposed > > > to be. How do you know for sure how it is supposed to be? > > > > Tom, please read what I wrote again. I said I *didn't* > > have expectations of how it is supposed to be. > > > > I *do* have an expectation of how it is *not* supposed > > to be--i.e., like ignorance. > > You don't see that a "negative expectation" is still > an expectation? Sounds like neti-netipicking to me. :-) > > It's *just* like ignorance. Before enlightenment, > ignorance; after enlightenment, ignorance. But > still, enlightenment is there. And the funny thing > is, at that point you realize it was *always* there. > > There is no *conflict* with ignorance and enlight- > enment coexisting. To believe that there is is the > ignorance.
Unless your definitions of "enlightenment" and "ignorance" in this context, at least, are literally mutually exclusive. There may be shades of darkness even when there is light, but if you define "darkness" as complete absence of light, then you're still left with a binary definition, however useless it may prove to be. > > Whatever. > ------------------------ 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/
