--- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], > "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > I never said I didn't have any expectations. > > > > > > I may not know what enlightenment is like, but I > know what it > > > ain't like? > > > > > > Still an expectation... > > > > Exactly. > > Yes, exactly, just as I said from the start. > > Very funny how folks believe they're cluing me in > on something here. > > > And the moment one has defined what is > > right here, right now as "not enlightenment," > > Described as my experience, not "defined." > > > one > > has shut down to some extent the ability to > realize > > that what is right here, right now IS > enlightenment. > > Now I'm beginning to see the motivation behind all > the > intentional language. > > If one can frame "the ability to realize" as > something > intentional rather than as something that happens to > one, then one has a basis for taking personal credit > for it, claiming authorship of it, being in control > of it: > > *I* did it, me, all by myself! But there is no person to take credit for it in enlightenment. Prior to this there is a sense of ownership and responsibility for action and its concequences. But in enlightenment it is an absurd notion to talk about an individuality. None can be located . > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > --------------------~--> > 1.2 million kids a year are victims of human > trafficking. Stop slavery. > http://us.click.yahoo.com/WpTY2A/izNLAA/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 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------ 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/
