Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ego in Enlightenment and Enlightened Ironies

[Vaj]

On Jan 10, 2006, at 7:50 AM, Alex Stanley wrote: I dunno... maybe my thinking is muddled, but Akashanon's comment didn't strike me as the least bit funny.  Yesterday, while alone on a trip to Iowa City, the sentence, "A clear, finely tuned intellect is necessary for realization and appreciation of higher states." was in the back of my mind all day. And judging by my recent experience, I disagree. I can see how a finely tuned intellect would be useful for more accurately conveying in language the experience of non-dual awareness, but for me, at least, the real appreciation has been on the level of heart. Trying to analyze it intellectually is only mildly interesting and somewhat frustrating; but, just innocently being aware of the awareness is like bathing in love. One of the characteristics of resting the mind in the Natural, non-dual State is that thoughts will not repeat themselves in samsaric chains--they self-liberate of and by themselves, "like a snake untying itself from a knot". The nice thing is, if we can experience thought from the perspective of this unified state, the pattern that causes them to arise repeatedly is immediately cut...for good...unless we recreate the same conditions that put them there in the first place... 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  Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.