--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > So, although I think the candy ass thing is a great job aid > > personally, almost sutra like in its ability to turn the mind away > > from the illusion of waking state, everyone begins the journey > > by 'understanding' enlightenment. In other words, building a > > conceptual model of that which they are striving for. We all > > did it. > > True. Although I wonder from time to time whether it > would have been easier to accept realization when it > occurred if we had not been imprinted with so many > false conceptual models for it, models that had to > be dropped to make way for the reality of it. <snip> >From my standpoint I don't think so- when it [the concepts and stories] crumbled, it crumbled quickly and completely. Even such a huge edifice as I had built was reduced to nothing in a day.
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