--- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- 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 .
But the three gunas are still acting in the manner in which the three gunas manifest in a body with a certain genetic makeup and history. ------------------------ 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/
