--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Everyone will interpret the same experience of enlightenment > > differently. Of course. But enlightenment itself remains the same > > experience as it has for eternity. > > And you're completely convinced of that? I'm not. > I have no problem with it being different for > everyone who experiences it. > > > I think the confusion may occur when people speak about Oneness or > > Unity, and to the unenlightened, this sounds like once we are > > enlightened, we all become the same, express ourselves the same, > > act the same, etc. > > I think the problem is far more fundamental than > that. *Anything* you try to say about enlighten- > ment is wrong. > > > Nothing could be further from the truth. This is just the attempt > of > > the ignorant mind to make sense of enlightenment. After > > enlightenment, individual expression remains consistent, because > > each person's physiology remains different. Even more individual. > > But the experience of enlightenment remains the same for us all. > > I might say that enlightenment itself (as opposed > to the individual minds that experience it) may > remain the same, but that the *experience* of that > eternal, non-localized state may be (and possibly is) > completely different for every localized being who > ever experiences it. > Hi, yeah, I think we are saying the same thing. Like looking out at the ocean from the shore. You will see it in some different way than I will, and we will each describe it differently, but the ocean remains the same, and there will probably be a great degree of commonality in our different descriptions.
I am *not* trying to 'plain vanilla' or norm out the experience of enlightenment, though. I had said earlier that once enlightenment occurs, we actually become *more* clearly defined as individuals. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Need Help? Get Help! Tools and Strategies for Healthy Drug-Free Living</a>. http://us.click.yahoo.com/wI.OUB/dbOLAA/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/
