> > > > > > 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.
For the period it stays. :-) If it's stayed a while for you, maybe it will continue to do so. Then again, maybe it will be gone tomorrow and you'll feel like a consummate ass for claiming to know how the universe works, eh? :-) > 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...). Well, that's a nice theory. Me, I don't believe that the state of one's nervous system has anything whatsover to do with realization. Nothing in the state of the nervous system can prevent realization, and nothing in it can 'cause' realization. Reali- zation just is. Sometimes it is clearly, sometimes it's not. :-) > 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. Cool. If you're claiming to be "Realized," that can be your definition of what you're claiming to be, eh? I'm not claiming to be anything... ------------------------ 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/
