--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, a_non_moose_ff > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > How can this guy have experiences of realization and not be > > > > > the least bit aware of his addiction to being a dishonest, > > > > > pompous, self-important asshole?
Because he is having 'experiences of realization', plural. Realization is not something that comes and goes. All the other stuff is sign posts pointing the way to it. Realization, when the experience comes, stays. There is no sometimes its there and sometimes its not. It is the culmination of a process of culturing the nervous system to be able to exist in any state and continue to have the experience of Realization, simultaneously (just like everyone says...). So, if we are just having periods of lucidity, alternating with periods of mud, we are not Realized, and can still be enslaved to our small e ego. > > > > Ignoring your attempt to start a fight yet again, > > > > (Says Barry, jumping into the fight with both feet.) > > > > > > where along the Way did you get the impression > > > > that realization was *incompatible* with being > > > > a dishonest, pompous, self-important asshole? > > > > Where along the Way did you get the impression > > > > that realization (being the basis of everything) > > > > could possibly be incompatible with *anything*? > > > > It seems to me that being a dishonest, pompous, > > > > self-important asshole (were that true) is better > > > > than being a spiritual retard. :-) :-) :-) > > > > > > (Except, as you've explained to us at some length, > > > in the case of Tom Pall.) > > > > (Well, actually, except in the case of anybody Barry > > disagrees with about anything.) > > I agree with Barry in that realization of the conscious nature doesn't > mean one is necessarily aware of the state of ones conditioning, > Barry, himself, being a prime example of this. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/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/
