--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > --- cardemaister wrote:
> > > 
> > > Taimni's translation:
> > > 
> > > It (samaadhi) is nearest to those whose
> > > desire (for samaadhi) is intensely strong.
> 
> sparaig wrote:
> 
> > When samadhi is close, unstressing is strong.
> 
> Sparaig's translation makes more sense to me. Going 
> back to my empirical view of things, I've noticed a lot 
> more people agitated because of samaadhi than liberated 
> because of their desire for liberation.
> 
> I know some people make the case that nature is set 
> up to respond to our desires, but I've had so many 
> powerful, long-held desires go unfulfilled that I have  
> trouble embracing that worldview. There's too much
> disproving data.
>

Otherwise we're left with the claimthat a strong desire for no desire 
leads to a state of no desire...





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