> > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > He is just pissed off and frustrated in general that his > > > enlightenment eludes him, and chooses to take it out on anyone who brings up the topic. I can relate, and I'm sure you can too, Peter. > > > Before such a breakthrough is a lot of frustration for something so tantalizingly close and yet apparently unreachable.
The imputing of others motives, the deconstruction of others' experiences is getting fascinating on this board. Like a soap opera of vindictiveness. Even though Dr. Stuphen, apparently the most educated on this board in these matters, says that is impossible to do correctly. Yet, ignoring such wise counsel, some still seem obsessed with doing so. A more subtle thing appears to present itself. The enlightenment story. Some appear to claim it as a means to differentiate themselves from others. So many tribes, races, religions, creeds, nations and movements have done this in the past and present. I am in (arbitrry) Circle A and you are not. You are not one of us. We are special. Who knows if this is what is going on in Jim's mind, but there appears to be a pattern of such in any number of posters. Just an observation. If this pattern does exist, it seems strange to me. While I personaly think enlightement is a bogus and misused label, it appears that adherents (worshipers to such label idols?) proclaim "oneness amongst us all". Yet an apparent (observable) tendency to differentiate "us from them". All facilitated by "the enlightenment story". And other tools. While I am not sayng walking the talk is a sign of so called enlightenment (btw, please at least first define your enlightenment tradition if you are going to use the term), not walking ones talk would seem a weak sign of so called enlightenment. But then again, "Enlightenment is a Big Red Popsicle!", so anything goes. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Drugs Don't Discriminate. Get help for yourself or someone you know. http://us.click.yahoo.com/0I.OUB/ZbOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/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/
