--- jim_flanegin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> --- 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.
> 
> There is such an overwhelming sense of both 'ah, now
> it is right' 
> and the resulting freedom within our heads and
> hearts that no matter 
> what has been there before is effortlessly let go
> of. There is 
> simply no question, no comparison, no doubt.

Getting run-over by the BUS renders previous mental
concepts of THAT quite irrelevent quite quickly. Ha!





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